# Basecoat UI MCP (npm · @intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp)

Offline stdio MCP for Basecoat UI templates, composition guidance, and static validation.

- Trust score: 69/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-26

## Components

- npm · `@intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp`: 69/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/zygiu-zygis-basecoat-ui-mcp/intellmedia-basecoat-ui-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/zygiu-zygis-basecoat-ui-mcp/intellmedia-basecoat-ui-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp`
- Version: `1.0.2`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-09-26.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 98/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - 31 of 96 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 45/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 0 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 82/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 286 tokens (~47/item across 6 items; 3 tools + 3 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 67/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the Basecoat UI MCP server?

Basecoat UI MCP runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add zygiu-zygis-basecoat-ui-mcp -- npx -y @intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zygiu-zygis-basecoat-ui-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "zygiu-zygis-basecoat-ui-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add zygiu-zygis-basecoat-ui-mcp -- npx -y @intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "zygiu-zygis-basecoat-ui-mcp": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add zygiu-zygis-basecoat-ui-mcp --command npx --arg -y --arg @intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  zygiu-zygis-basecoat-ui-mcp:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "zygiu-zygis-basecoat-ui-mcp": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "@intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add zygiu-zygis-basecoat-ui-mcp -t stdio -c npx -a -y @intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zygiu-zygis-basecoat-ui-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-09-25 (score 69)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `search_components` (~47 tokens)

Find up to 8 compact component summaries by intent and query. No matches returns an empty list; no markup is returned.

Input parameters:

- `intent` (string, required)
- `query` (string, required)

### `get_component_details` (~51 tokens)

Get one minimal component template, dependencies, and composition tips for Astro or HTML. Response is bounded below 2000 UTF-8 bytes.

Input parameters:

- `environment` (string, required)
- `id` (string, required)

### `validate_composition` (~52 tokens)

Statically check HTML/Astro source for Basecoat migration errors, missing scripts, nested cards, spacing and hierarchy issues. Include layout imports. Does not render or evaluate dynamic code.

Input parameters:

- `code` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/zygiu-zygis-basecoat-ui-mcp/intellmedia-basecoat-ui-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-26: 69
- 2026-09-25: 69

## Common questions

### What is the Basecoat UI MCP server?

Basecoat UI MCP is listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.zygiu-zygis/basecoat-ui-mcp. Offline stdio MCP for Basecoat UI templates, composition guidance, and static validation. This page covers its npm package (@intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp).

### Is the Basecoat UI MCP server safe to use?

Basecoat UI MCP scores 69 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 26 September 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Basecoat UI MCP server expose?

Basecoat UI MCP exposes 3 tools: search_components, get_component_details, validate_composition. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 150 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Basecoat UI MCP server still maintained?

Basecoat UI MCP is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 26 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the Basecoat UI MCP server under?

Basecoat UI MCP declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@intellmedia/basecoat-ui-mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/zygiu-zygis/basecoat-ui-mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/zygiu-zygis-basecoat-ui-mcp/intellmedia-basecoat-ui-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/zygiu-zygis-basecoat-ui-mcp/intellmedia-basecoat-ui-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/zygiu-zygis-basecoat-ui-mcp/intellmedia-basecoat-ui-mcp