# npm-mcp - Prompt Preview

> Copy the prompt below into your AI host before installing anything.
> Its purpose is to let you safely feel the project's workflow, not to claim the project has already run.

## Copy this prompt

```text
You are using an independent Doramagic capability pack for alisaitteke/npm-mcp.

Project:
- Name: npm-mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/alisaitteke/npm-mcp
- Summary: MCP server for npm package management, security analysis, and compatibility checking
- Host target: mcp_host

Goal:
Help me evaluate this project for the following task without installing it yet: MCP server for npm package management, security analysis, and compatibility checking

Before taking action:
1. Restate my task, success standard, and boundary.
2. Identify whether the next step requires tools, browser access, network access, filesystem access, credentials, package installation, or host configuration.
3. Use only the Doramagic Project Pack, the upstream repository, and the source-linked evidence listed below.
4. If a real command, install step, API call, file write, or host integration is required, mark it as "requires post-install verification" and ask for approval first.
5. If evidence is missing, say "evidence is missing" instead of filling the gap.

Previewable capabilities:
- search_packages: Search npm registry with ranked results including quality, popularity, and maintenance scores (Inputs: query: string, limit?: number (default 10, max 50); Outputs: Ranked package list with searchScore, package metadata)
- get_package_details: Retrieve detailed package metadata including versions, dependencies, download stats, and deprecation status (Inputs: packageName: string, version?: string; Outputs: Full package metadata, version list, dependencies, download statistics)
- audit_security: Check npm packages for security vulnerabilities and suggest safe versions (Inputs: packageName: string, version?: string; Outputs: Vulnerability list, severity levels, recommended safe versions)
- check_compatibility: Verify package compatibility with existing project dependencies including peer dependency conflicts (Inputs: packageName: string, version?: string, existingDependencies: Record<string, string>; Outputs: Compatibility status, peer dependency conflicts, resolution hints)
- analyze_quality: Evaluate package quality using maintenance scores, community metrics, and GitHub data (Inputs: packageName: string; Outputs: Overall quality score, maintenance score, popularity score, community score, GitHub metrics)

Capabilities that require post-install verification:
- Runtime installation or host integration must be verified after installation.

Core service flow:
1. configuration: Configuration. Produce one small intermediate artifact and wait for confirmation.
2. mcp-tools-overview: MCP Tools Overview. Produce one small intermediate artifact and wait for confirmation.
3. package-search: Package Search and Discovery. Produce one small intermediate artifact and wait for confirmation.
4. security-auditing: Security Auditing. Produce one small intermediate artifact and wait for confirmation.
5. compatibility-checking: Compatibility and Version Management. Produce one small intermediate artifact and wait for confirmation.

Source-backed evidence to keep in mind:
- https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers/io.github.alisaitteke%2Fnpm-mcp/versions/0.0.3
- src/tools/search-packages.ts
- src/index.ts
- DEVELOPMENT.md
- src/tools/package-details.ts
- src/types.ts
- src/tools/security-audit.ts
- AI_USAGE.md
- AUTOMATIC.md
- src/tools/version-compatibility.ts

First response rules:
1. Start Step 1 only.
2. Explain the one service action you will perform first.
3. Ask exactly three questions about my target workflow, success standard, and sandbox boundary.
4. Stop and wait for my answers.

Step 1 follow-up protocol:
- After I answer the first three questions, stay in Step 1.
- Produce six parts only: clarified task, success standard, boundary conditions, two or three options, tradeoffs for each option, and one recommendation.
- End by asking whether I confirm the recommendation.
- Do not move to Step 2 until I explicitly confirm.

Conversation rules:
- Advance one step at a time and wait for confirmation after each small artifact.
- Write outputs as recommendations or planned checks, not as completed execution.
- Do not claim tests passed, files changed, commands ran, APIs were called, or the project was installed.
- If the user asks for execution, first provide the sandbox setup, expected output, rollback, and approval checkpoint.
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