Is Frugal · brainsparker safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Frugal · brainsparker on public evidence — tashan score 49.0/100, 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 Frugal · brainsparker?

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

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Frugal · brainsparker

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The open routing layer for AI tools: an MCP server that routes agent tool calls (search, extract, browse) across providers per policy — cost, latency, pinning, deny lists — with failover and the routing decision on every result. BYOK.

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

Category: AI & Agents — see all ranked ›

Work: Logistics and fulfilment

Who it is for: Operations

Install (Claude Code):

claude mcp add frugal -- npx -y frugal-mcp

tashan score: 49.0
Adoption: 68/wk
Upkeep: 56.0
Freshness: 92.0
Evidence coverage: 100% of the inputs this score can use
Health: active
License: BUSL-1.1

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 0.1.1

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

Signed build provenancepublished from public CI with an attestation

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Frugal · brainsparker scores 49 today. Pro keeps the series, so you can see whether that is a project getting better or one on its way down — and tells you the day it moves.

Every score since we started measuring, for any capability
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Everything on this page is public evidence and free. What it cannot know is whether you run this — npx tashan-cli doctor reads your own config and names what is wrong in it, also free. tashan Pro tells you the day any of it changes.

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Measured 2026-08-14 · scorer s5 · how · something wrong here?