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DimensionCodebase MemoryA codebase knowledge graph for AI coding agents.NPM Sentinel MCP ServerAI-powered NPM package analysis MCP server
FMRS52 / 100 · D79 / 100 · B
Reliability8 / 2012 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance10 / 2018 / 20
Documentation13 / 2018 / 20
Setup experience9 / 2015 / 20
Best for
  • AI coding agents that need local code intelligence.
  • Teams requiring cross-file call resolution, architecture analysis, or incremental indexing.
  • Users who prefer a pure-C stdio server with local persistent storage.
  • Developers auditing NPM dependencies within AI workflows
  • Teams performing supply chain security assessments
  • Users of Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code
Not for
  • Users requiring a built-in large language model or cloud-hosted code analysis.
  • Users unable to build from source or provide a C/C++ build environment.
  • Clients requiring SSE or streamable-http transport.
  • Projects outside the NPM ecosystem (e.g., pure Python/Go)
  • Environments without network access to deps.dev, OSV.dev, and the npm registry
  • Scenarios requiring maintenance by an official upstream vendor
Required permissions
  • Read access to the repositories and Git changes being indexed.
  • Local write access for the SQLite graph database and configuration in the cache directory.
  • When installing or configuring supported agents, write access to agent configuration, instruction files, skills, and hooks.
  • Write access to Architecture Decision Records when managing ADRs.
  • Network access to the NPM registry and external services (deps.dev, OSV.dev, OpenSSF, npms.io, GitHub)
  • Read access to workspace lockfiles (pnpm-lock.yaml, package-lock., yarn.lock) for cache invalidation
Risks and side effects
  • The tool reads the codebase and may write to agent configuration files.
  • The fork has no prebuilt binaries; building compiles many vendored grammars.
  • Do not run the binary's update subcommand because it pulls the official upstream release and overwrites the integrated build.
  • Deleting a project or local cache removes the corresponding graph data, but not the source code.
  • Third-party READMEs and changelogs are untrusted external content; they are wrapped in tags with _meta flags but should still be handled cautiously
  • Depends on availability and accuracy of external services
  • Batch requests are capped at 25 packages to prevent registry enumeration; larger sets require batching
  • Third-party open source project, not officially maintained by NPM or Anthropic
Supported clientsClaude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Zed, OpenCode, Antigravity, Aider, KiloCode, VS Code, OpenClaw, KiroClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor
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