Is Glyph Compress safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Glyph Compress on public evidence — tashan score 57.0/100, 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 Glyph Compress?

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

Who maintains Glyph Compress?

source: Neolambo/glyph-compress.

‹ The Index

Glyph Compress

npm

Semantic compression for IDE↔LLM communication using radical glyphs — CLI, MCP server, and VS Code extension, with a Context Router, team-shared dictionaries, and compression calibrated against real provider tokenizers.

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 glyph-compress -- npx -y glyph-compress

deep

“4 tools documented (compress_text, compress_file…); 24 worked examples; setup and auth covered; states a limit — “Those figures come from one synthetic fixture, which is…”; read with 1 linked doc(s)”

This grade is wrong ›

tashan score: 57.0
Instruction depth: 89.0 (deep — documents every tool, with worked examples, setup and a stated limitation)
Adoption: 385/wk
Upkeep: 68.0
Freshness: 85.0
Evidence coverage: 100% of the inputs this score can use
Health: active
License: AGPL-3.0-only

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 1.37.4 — 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

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Measured 2026-09-13 · scorer s5 · how · something wrong here?