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Modelcontextprotocol vs Argot

Modelcontextprotocol scores 12 points higher on the same evidence, which is a real separation rather than noise. Both are measured the same way, on the same day, from public evidence only — so this is a comparison of two measurements rather than two marketing pages. How we measure ›

ModelcontextprotocolArgotwhat it means
tashan score8472upkeep + freshness, gated by adoption
Adoption evidence322k/wk3k/wkthe raw public signal the score came from
Last releaseactiveactivenpm publish or repo push
Upkeep9173cadence, maintainers, status
Expertise gradenot gradednot gradedan LLM read of its own documentation against a fixed rubric
Security auditno known advisories, no build provenanceno known advisories, no build provenancea summary — the full audit, free, is on each dossier
Licence
Maintainersmore than oneone primarybus-factor risk

Install either

Modelcontextprotocol

claude mcp add modelcontextprotocol-client -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/client

Argot

claude mcp add argot -- npx -y @tmonier/argot

Neither score is a security verdict — "well maintained" and "nothing known is wrong" are different claims, which is why the audit is a separate row and never folded into the number. The full audit for each — the advisory ids, the version that fixes them and anything that runs at install time — is free on its own page: Modelcontextprotocol · Argot.

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