# `io.github.presendapp/presend-deps` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.presendapp/presend-deps
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.presendapp/presend-deps
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.presendapp (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/presendapp/presend-source
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:45:36.225Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Presend dependency checks
Check an npm/PyPI package before an AI agent installs it: 5 focused supply-chain tools.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:26:23.613Z over streamable-http.

**5 tools: 5 change things.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 5 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 0 | allow |

## Findings

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `supply_chain_check` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "supply_chain_check" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":true}; The description's first verb is "call": a word for a change.
```

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `typosquat_check` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "typosquat_check" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The description's first verb is "call": a word for a change.
```


## Changes things (5)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `maintainer_change_check`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Publisher-change analysis is npm only. Also reports whether the package exists (found) and its age (first_published, package_age_days, new_package if first published less than 30 days ago), for npm and for PyPI; on PyPI only existence and age are available. Flags a previously unseen human publisher taking over a package after 180+ days of inactivity, within the last 365 days (the event-stream attack pattern). npm trusted publishing (verified OIDC identity, not just a bot-like account name), pre-release, and handovers to a publisher who already maintains another widely used package (100k+ weekly downloads) are reported but not flagged. Does not detect hijacked existing accounts; a heuristic for review, not proof.
```

### `repo_health_check`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Maintenance signals for a GitHub repository given as owner/name: stars, forks, open issues, license, archived and fork flags, creation date and age, days since last push, topics. Use it to judge whether a dependency looks maintained or abandoned. For an npm or PyPI package whose repository you do not know, supply_chain_check resolves it from registry metadata and includes these signals. GitHub only; missing or private repositories return found: false.
```

### `supply_chain_check`

- The description's first verb is "call": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Call this before installing or adding a package (npm install, pip install, a new entry in a manifest), especially one whose name you recalled or that a model suggested. One-call risk check: combines vulnerability_check (OSV.dev), typosquat_check, maintainer_change_check (npm only) and repo_health_check (when the GitHub repo can be resolved) into one overall verdict. A package that does not exist on npm or PyPI gets overall_risk 'package_not_found': the name may be invented and should not be installed. A package first published less than 30 days ago gets the 'new_package' flag and overall_risk 'review_recommended': new packages are where invented and look-alike names get registered, so the name is worth confirming against the project's own documentation before installing (on PyPI the age is that of the oldest release still published; being new does not make a package malicious). Use the individual tools to investigate one signal. Vulnerabilities are checked for the given version, or the latest published one (version_checked, version_source). If a check could not run (rate limit, upstream error), it is listed in unavailable_checks and overall_risk is 'incomplete', never 'no_signals_found'. Also flags a version marked deprecated on npm or yanked on PyPI.
```

### `typosquat_check`

- The description's first verb is "call": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Call before installing a package whose name you typed or recalled. Checks whether an npm or PyPI package name is a near-miss of a well-known package (typosquatting), with an edit-distance threshold scaled to name length; names of 3 characters or fewer are not fuzzy-matched. Uses a curated list of popular names, so a clean result does not prove a package is safe. It does not check that the package exists: supply_chain_check does.
```

### `vulnerability_check`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Checks a package (optionally a specific version) against OSV.dev for known vulnerabilities: npm, PyPI, Go, crates.io, Maven, RubyGems, Packagist and NuGet. For npm and PyPI, a name that does not exist returns found: false and vulnerable: null, never a clean result. Use supply_chain_check for a combined verdict.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `presend-deps`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__presend-deps__maintainer_change_check",
      "mcp__presend-deps__repo_health_check",
      "mcp__presend-deps__supply_chain_check",
      "mcp__presend-deps__typosquat_check",
      "mcp__presend-deps__vulnerability_check"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```
