Artifact Gauge

Artifact Gauge is a local MCP tool for answering a simple release question: what is taking up space? It reports artifact totals, extension histograms, largest files, and dependency manifest metadata without returning file contents.

Tools

• inspect_artifacts: scan a bounded local project and summarize file sizes and types.
• inspect_manifest: report metadata for one recognized dependency manifest without exposing its contents or dependency versions.

Safety

• Local paths only, with ARTIFACT_GAUGE_ROOT boundary support and symlink checks.
• Skips Git data, dependencies, coverage, framework caches, and other common generated caches while intentionally including dist and build artifacts.
• Caps recursion, file count, file size, and output.
• Never returns file contents, package versions, secrets, or source text.
• This is a size heuristic, not a complete bundler or dependency vulnerability analyzer.

Run

npm install
npm run build
node dist/index.js