What features does NPM Plus MCP server provide?

Q: What features does NPM Plus MCP server provide?

Smart Package Discovery: Search npm registry with intelligent relevance scoring, view detailed package metadata, keywords, and maintainers; supports pagination.. Intelligent Package Management: Install, update, and remove packages across npm, Yarn, and pnpm with dev/global options and automatic tool detection with retry logic.. Security & Compliance: Real-time vulnerability scanning with fallback mechanisms and license compliance tracking including fix suggestions.. Advanced Analytics: Bundle size analysis, dependency-tree visualization with circular dependency detection, download statistics, and orphaned file detection.. Dependency Tree Visualization: Visualize dependency relationships to assess architecture and identify circular dependencies.. License Compliance Tracking: Analyze licenses across dependencies to ensure legal compliance.. Robust Installation & Retry Logic: Intelligent retry logic for npm errors and automatic recovery from transient failures.. Editor Integrations & Cross-Editor Support: Supports MCP-enabled editors (Claude, Windsurf, Cursor, VS Code) with natural-language driven package operations.

NPM Plus MCP Server 2025: Features & Setup Guide

Overview

NPM Plus MCP server provides 16 fully functional tools for discovering, analyzing, and managing JavaScript packages within MCP-enabled editors. It enables Smart Package Discovery (search the npm registry with intelligent scoring and metadata), Intelligent Package Management (install, update, and remove packages across npm, Yarn, and pnpm with dev/global options and automatic tool detection), and Security & Compliance (real-time vulnerability scanning with license analysis and fix suggestions). Advanced Analytics cover bundle size analysis, dependency-tree visualization with circular dependency detection, download statistics, and orphaned file detection. The platform emphasizes reliability through automatic retries for transient npm errors, robust error handling, and compatibility with both relative and absolute paths. It is built with TypeScript, MCP SDK, Zod, Execa, Pacote, and Node-cache, and uses intelligent caching, rate limiting, and parallel processing to optimize AI context windows. Deployment options include hosted usage via api.npmplus.dev and self-hosted setups (builds, npx, or node-based). It documents editor integrations (Claude, Windsurf, Cursor, VS Code) to enable natural-language driven package operations.

Features

Smart Package Discovery

Search npm registry with intelligent relevance scoring, view detailed package metadata, keywords, and maintainers; supports pagination.

Intelligent Package Management

Install, update, and remove packages across npm, Yarn, and pnpm with dev/global options and automatic tool detection with retry logic.

Security & Compliance

Real-time vulnerability scanning with fallback mechanisms and license compliance tracking including fix suggestions.

Advanced Analytics

Bundle size analysis, dependency-tree visualization with circular dependency detection, download statistics, and orphaned file detection.

Dependency Tree Visualization

Visualize dependency relationships to assess architecture and identify circular dependencies.

License Compliance Tracking

Analyze licenses across dependencies to ensure legal compliance.

Robust Installation & Retry Logic

Intelligent retry logic for npm errors and automatic recovery from transient failures.

Editor Integrations & Cross-Editor Support

Supports MCP-enabled editors (Claude, Windsurf, Cursor, VS Code) with natural-language driven package operations.