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DimensionInfrawise MCP ServerGive your AI coding assistant deterministic awareness of your AWS and database infrastructureNPM Sentinel MCP ServerAI-powered NPM package analysis MCP server
FMRS64 / 100 · C79 / 100 · B
Reliability8 / 2012 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance14 / 2018 / 20
Documentation17 / 2018 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2015 / 20
Best for
  • Teams building on AWS with TypeScript/JavaScript/Python
  • Developers who want AI assistants to ground code generation in real infrastructure
  • Engineering teams wanting infrastructure anti-pattern gates in CI
  • Developers auditing NPM dependencies within AI workflows
  • Teams performing supply chain security assessments
  • Users of Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code
Not for
  • Projects not using AWS or the supported databases/messaging services
  • Tooling that must provision or modify infrastructure (Infrawise is read-only)
  • Code-level correlation in languages other than TypeScript/JS/Python (infrastructure-level analysis still works)
  • 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
  • AWS credentials via your existing credential chain (minimum dynamodb:ListTables/DescribeTable; full read-only IAM policy in docs)
  • Optional read-only PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB connections (read-only user recommended)
  • SSO profiles require aws sso login first
  • 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
  • Reads infrastructure metadata via AWS APIs and DB connections; read-only and local, but use least-privilege credentials
  • Python code scanning requires python3 on PATH
  • Some supply-chain scanners may flag the 'infra' prefix as deceptive naming (author states this is a false positive; project is independent and unaffiliated)
  • Large monorepos may need future incremental analysis optimization
  • 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, Cursor, GitHub CopilotClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor
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