Is Familiar safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Familiar on public evidence — tashan score 59.0/100, it is currently active, note: a single primary maintainer (bus-factor risk), no known advisories against the current release. Audit scope: OSV advisories, install-time scripts, build provenance and declared permission surface. We do not review source code or execute the capability.

How do I install Familiar?

In Claude Code: run `claude mcp add familiar -- npx -y familiar-vtt`. In Cursor / Claude Desktop, add it to mcp.json / claude_desktop_config.json.

Who maintains Familiar?

source: Ryanjansen92/familiar-releases.

‹ The Index

Familiar

npm

AI co-pilot for Foundry VTT: runs combat, scenes, voices and audio. Requires the Familiar module.

Works with: Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cline, Windsurf, VS Code (installable)
installable: each client documents how to load an MCP server of this type — that is the client's promise, not a claim verified against this capability

Install (Claude Code):

claude mcp add familiar -- npx -y familiar-vtt

thin

“Claims 195 tools across 24 domains and documents none of them; no example calls”

This grade is wrong ›

tashan score: 59.0
Instruction depth: 50.0 (thin — shallow — says what it does, not how to actually use it)
Adoption: 504/wk
Upkeep: 67.0
Freshness: 85.0
Evidence coverage: 100% of the inputs this score can use
Health: active
License: SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE

Security audit

Every finding is shown in full — which advisory, the version that fixes it, and the exact command run at install time. Nothing in this audit is behind a licence.

No known advisoriesclearchecked against OSV for 2.25.0 — this package, not its dependency tree

No access inferred from declared dependenciesnothing it depends on reaches files, shell or network. This reads declarations only — built-in APIs are invisible to it, so absence of a declaration is not absence of access

No build provenanceno attestation — the published artifact cannot be traced to its source

What changed recently

2026-08-05 familiar published 2.21.0, was 2.20.0 A new release is available.
2026-08-13 familiar published 2.22.0, was 2.21.0 A new release is available.
2026-08-22 familiar published 2.23.0, was 2.22.0 A new release is available.

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The whole series behind any row, back to the first day we measured it
The replacement, named — not just the news that something died
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Measured 2026-09-13 · scorer s5 · how · something wrong here?