Symbol (XYM)

io.github.inotakeh/symbol

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
No secrets
★ 1 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-18
Health score 53

About Symbol (XYM)

Symbol (XYM) is an MCP server published by the GitHub account inotakeh. Read-only MCP server for the Symbol blockchain (XYM): node health, harvesting, voting keys.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package symbol-mcp-server at version 0.10.2.

It asks for no keys or passwords.

It also needs SYMBOL_NODE_URL set before it starts.

Version 0.10.2 was published on 18 October 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 7 pass, 0 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`SYMBOL_NODE_URL`	Yes	No	REST URL of the Symbol node to query, e.g. https://<node-host>:3001; https:// is required (http:// only for localhost / 127.0.0.1 / [::1]) and the port is used exactly as given.
`SYMBOL_NETWORK`	No	No	mainnet or testnet; when set, start-up fails if the node reports a different network.
`SYMBOL_TIMEZONE`	No	No	IANA zone such as Asia/Tokyo that adds a local time next to every UTC timestamp.
`SYMBOL_REFERENCE_NODES`	No	No	Comma-separated https:// node URLs that symbol_network_compare and symbol_version_drift check against; no other host is ever contacted.
`SYMBOL_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS`	No	No	Per-request timeout in milliseconds, 100 to 600000 (default 10000).
`SYMBOL_STATE_DIR`	No	No	Absolute directory where symbol_harvesting_status keeps one snapshot file per node (unlocked harvester public keys, heights and times; no secrets) when it is asked to compare or save, created on first save with mode 0700; when unset, the tool reports the current list without a comparison.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/inotakeh/symbol-mcp-server
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for no secrets
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account inotakeh
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	symbol-mcp-server@0.10.2 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 73 files in symbol-mcp-server@0.10.2: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 73 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 53 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity10 / 40

1 GitHub stars, 204 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity15 / 25

Last push 2026-10-26, last release 2026-10-18, 0 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

0 closed of 0 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

0 forks, 106 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

No Hacker News threads link to its source code.

Look further: search Reddit, search Hacker News, read its GitHub issues. These are not reviews we checked.

Facts

Registry name	`io.github.inotakeh/symbol`
Publisher	GitHub account inotakeh
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account inotakeh. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	npm `symbol-mcp-server` 0.10.2 (stdio)
Version	0.10.2
Published	2026-10-18
Last updated	2026-10-18
Source repository	https://github.com/inotakeh/symbol-mcp-server
Website	https://github.com/inotakeh/symbol-mcp-server#readme
Category	Finance & payments (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "symbol": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "symbol-mcp-server@0.10.2"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SYMBOL_NODE_URL": "<your value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

We did not run this server, so we don't know what it does when it runs. We read its package code on 2026-10-29 without running it, and pattern searches miss what they have no pattern for. Tool descriptions built at run time were not seen. And we don't watch it after you install: if the publisher changes it later (a rug pull), this page won't notice until the next scan. Treat a pass as "nothing found", not as "safe".

For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-inotakeh-symbol.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.