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new-dependency-evaluation

Help decide what to add as a NEW npm dependency — comparing 2-5 named candidates for the same job, evaluating one named candidate against its real peers, or shortlisting candidates from a described need, before anything is installed. Use for "which should we use for X," "axios vs got vs node-fetch," "is X a good pick for Y," "what should we use to do Z," "should we add X or is there something better." Not for auditing packages already in the project (see dependency-audit), not for a deep single-package compromise/trust investigation (see package-trust-check), and not for a plain factual question with no choice being made ("what does X do").

Bundled with NPMScan. Its trust score, security findings and other files are on the plugin page.

npx [email protected] add salemalem/npmscan-mcp-plugin