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DimensionHf MCP ServerConnect your LLM to the Hugging Face Hub and thousands of Gradio AI Applications.NPM Sentinel MCP ServerAI-powered NPM package analysis MCP server
FMRS57 / 100 · C79 / 100 · B
Reliability10 / 2012 / 20
Security and permissions11 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance10 / 2018 / 20
Documentation12 / 2018 / 20
Setup experience14 / 2015 / 20
Best for
  • Developers wanting to integrate Hugging Face ecosystem into LLM tools
  • AI application builders needing access to models, datasets, and Gradio apps
  • Developers auditing NPM dependencies within AI workflows
  • Teams performing supply chain security assessments
  • Users of Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code
Not for
  • Users not using Hugging Face services
  • Scenarios requiring long-lived connections or stateful MCP servers (STDIO does not expose skills)
  • 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
  • Requires a Hugging Face token (HF_TOKEN) for authentication
  • HTTP transport requires Authorization: Bearer header
  • May access Hugging Face API and Gradio apps
  • 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
  • User-supplied tokens may be misused
  • Proxy tools or external URLs may introduce security risks
  • Local loopback addresses are allowed by default; external access requires allowlist
  • 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 Desktop, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, VS Code, CursorClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor
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