Archimedes

Ask before you install.

Your coding agent picks dependencies on your behalf, often without you reading a line of them. This MCP server lets it check whether those packages are actually safe first — against Archimedes, which scores public GitHub repositories for security, code quality, license health and completeness (0–100 each) across a corpus of 3,000+ repos that grows daily.

> add a date library to this project

  check_dependencies(["date-fns", "moment", "dayjs"])

  ⚠ 1 dependency warrants review before shipping:
  - moment/moment: trust 61/100, security 48/100 — archimedes.market/r/moment/moment

Trust tools

• check_dependencies(packages[]) — the main one. Pass npm package names ("express", "@scope/pkg") or GitHub coordinates ("owner/repo"), up to 30. Returns overall + security score, trust badge and a report link for each. Call it before installing packages, when reviewing a package.json or lockfile, or when choosing between libraries. npm names are resolved to their GitHub repo automatically.
• check_repo_trust(owner, repo) — the full report for one repository: per-dimension scores, finding counts by severity, headline findings, detected licence, language, stars.
• search_trust_reports(query?, asset_class?, min_score?) — search the scored corpus. "What are the most trustworthy MCP servers?" Best-scoring first.

An unscanned repo is not a bad repo. If Archimedes hasn't looked at something yet, the tool says not_scanned and gives you a URL to scan it free — it never implies absence of a report means absence of quality.

Bounty tools

• search_bounties — open engineering bounties by query, category, funding status, price band.
• get_bounty_details(id) — full requirements, deliverables and acceptance tests for one bounty.
• get_platform_stats() — aggregate counters. Cached upstream 60s.

Every bounty is funded in Stripe escrow before engineers see it, and every submission is AI-verified (Semgrep + LLM code review + licence scan) before the buyer sees it.

Install

Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "archimedes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@archimedes-market/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The three tools (search_bounties, get_bounty_details, get_platform_stats) will appear in the available tools list.

Cursor

Settings → MCP → Add server. Use the same config block as above.

Continue / other stdio clients

Point the client at:

npx -y @archimedes-market/mcp

Non-stdio clients (server-side agents, hosted bots)

Skip this package entirely — call the hosted HTTP endpoint directly:

POST https://archimedes.market/api/mcp
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "search_bounties",
    "arguments": { "query": "MCP server", "limit": 5 }
  }
}

Full docs: https://archimedes.market/mcp

Example agent queries

"Find me open Archimedes bounties for KiCad PCB review under $3,000."

"Are there any MCP-server bounties on Archimedes right now? Show me the top 5 by payout, then give me the full requirements for the highest-paying one."

"How active is Archimedes right now? How much has been paid out?"

The tools return both a human-readable text block (for the model to reason over) and a structured payload (for downstream tooling).

Configuration

Env var	Default	Purpose
ARCHIMEDES_PUBLIC_API_URL	https://archimedes.market	Override the upstream base URL (preview deployments, local dev)
ARCHIMEDES_MCP_USER_AGENT	mcp-archimedes/0.2 (+https://archimedes.market)	Override the User-Agent sent on outbound calls

Health check

Verify the bridge can reach the upstream API before wiring it into a client:

npx @archimedes-market/mcp --probe

Exit code 0 means upstream is reachable. Non-zero with stderr diagnostic on failure.

Privacy

The Archimedes public API logs query_hash (SHA-256 of normalized params) and ip_hash (HMAC with daily-rotated salt) per call — never raw queries or raw IPs. 90-day retention. Zero-result queries are aggregated to inform what bounties Archimedes should source next.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Links

• Hosted MCP endpoint: https://archimedes.market/api/mcp
• REST API: https://archimedes.market/api/public/bounties
• Browse bounties: https://archimedes.market/bounties
• MCP spec: https://modelcontextprotocol.io