npm-search

npm-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ofershap/mcp-server-npm. It costs 25 tokens per session (303 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of tools and instructions for searching npm, the package registry commonly used by JavaScript and Node.js projects. It can inspect packages, versions, dependencies, licences, maintainers, and download statistics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding packages by keyword, comparing alternatives, inspecting package details, listing dependencies, checking versions, and reviewing daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly downloads.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to compare libraries and check their maintenance and dependency footprint before adding one to a project. It also supports checking adoption trends through download data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Finding packages by keyword, comparing alternatives, inspecting package details, listing dependencies, checking versions, and reviewing daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly downloads.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ofershap/mcp-server-npm/npm-search
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ofershap/mcp-server-npm --skill npm-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ofershap/mcp-server-npm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 303 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00025 $0.00303
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00030

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0bba1c10ddc4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

npm-search scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/npm-search/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

npm Package Search via MCP

Use this skill when you need to search npm, compare packages, check download stats, or inspect dependencies. No API keys needed.

Available Tools

Tool What it does
npm_search Search npm packages by keyword
npm_info Get detailed package info (version, license, deps, maintainers)
npm_downloads Get download statistics (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
npm_versions List recent versions of a package
npm_compare Compare two packages side by side
npm_deps List all dependencies of a package

Workflow

  1. npm_search to find packages by keyword
  2. npm_compare to evaluate two alternatives side by side
  3. npm_info for deep dive on a specific package
  4. npm_downloads to gauge popularity and adoption trends

Key Patterns

  • npm_compare is the most useful tool for "which library should I use?" questions
  • npm_downloads returns daily/weekly/monthly/yearly — use for trend analysis
  • npm_deps helps evaluate dependency footprint before adding a package
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 33 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 0bba1c10ddc4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

npm-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository ofershap/mcp-server-npm (0 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 303 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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