freshdeps_

Is that package still alive — or is your agent guessing?

Every AI coding agent recommends npm / PyPI packages from training data that is 6–18 months stale. It confidently suggests deprecated libraries, outdated versions, and packages with known CVEs — because a model cannot know post-cutoff package state. freshdeps does a live lookup across the npm registry, PyPI, GitHub and the OSV vulnerability database and returns one honest verdict: alive, slowing, stale, or abandoned — plus what to use instead.

// sample verdicts
request / deprecatednpmmoment / maintenance-modenpmreact / activenpmleft-pad / infamousnpmcolors / sabotagednpmnumpy / activepypinose / deadpypirequests / activepypi
// use it from your AI agent (MCP)

Add the MCP server so Claude / Cursor calls freshdeps before recommending a dependency:

{ "mcpServers": { "freshdeps": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "freshdeps-mcp"] } } }
// programmatic