Node vs Dev
These two are level on the tashan score (within 1 points), so the score does not decide it. The evidence rows below are where they differ. 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 ›
| Node | Dev | what it means | |
|---|---|---|---|
| tashan score | 84 | 83 | upkeep + freshness, gated by adoption |
| Adoption evidence | 121k/wk | 37k/wk | the raw public signal the score came from |
| Last release | active | active | npm publish or repo push |
| Upkeep | 91 | 99 | cadence, maintainers, status |
| Expertise grade | not graded | not graded | an LLM read of its own documentation against a fixed rubric |
| Security audit | no known advisories, no build provenance | no known advisories, no build provenance | a summary — the full audit, free, is on each dossier |
| Licence | — | — | |
| Maintainers | more than one | more than one | bus-factor risk |
Install either
Node
claude mcp add modelcontextprotocol-node -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/nodeDev
claude mcp add shopify-dev -- npx -y @shopify/dev-mcpNeither 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: Node · Dev.