zipnative MCP — ZIP creation, inspection, secure extraction & verification

io.github.Nizoka/zipnative-mcp

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
1 secret
★ 0 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-19
Health score 59

About zipnative MCP — ZIP creation, inspection, secure extraction & verification

zipnative MCP — ZIP creation, inspection, secure extraction & verification is an MCP server published by the GitHub account Nizoka. ZIP MCP server: create, inspect, verify, extract, canonicalize, merge, modify. 15 tools

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package zipnative-mcp at version 1.1.0.

It asks for one secret: ZIPNATIVE_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 1.1.0 was published on 19 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
`ZIPNATIVE_MCP_OUTPUT_DIR`	No	No	Absolute path of the one sandbox directory: zipPath / sourcePath inputs are read from it and outputMode='file' / outputDir outputs are written under it (never overwritten; the real path of every file read and of every parent written must stay inside — a planted symlink or junction is SECURITY_VIOLATION). Unset: every tool works on base64 only (no file I/O beyond the opt-in cache).
`ZIPNATIVE_MCP_CACHE_DIR`	No	No	Opt-in content-addressed response cache directory (absolute path) (SHA-256 keyed, 1h TTL, 256 MiB, oldest-written evicted first, plaintext at rest). Never caches zipPath / sourcePath inputs, file output, defaultDate='now', parallel, describe_engine or draft_governance_issue.
`ZIPNATIVE_MCP_PORT`	No	No	Serve Streamable HTTP on this loopback port (POST /mcp) instead of stdio (MCP 2026-07-28, stateless, legacy fallback). Unauthenticated unless ZIPNATIVE_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN is set.
`ZIPNATIVE_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN`	No	Yes	Opt-in bearer token for the HTTP transport (>= 16 chars, no whitespace; a weaker value refuses to start). When set, /mcp requires 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' or answers 401. Compared constant-time, never logged.
`ZIPNATIVE_MCP_MAX_UNCOMPRESSED_BYTES`	No	No	Operator ceiling for limits.maxEntryUncompressedSize, limits.maxTotalUncompressedSize and limits.maxEntryCompressedSize in bytes (default 8589934592 = 8 GiB, the engine default). Integer >= 1024, read once at startup; an invalid value refuses to start. A per-call value above it is refused with LIMIT_CEILING_EXCEEDED.
`ZIPNATIVE_MCP_MAX_ENTRIES`	No	No	Operator ceiling for limits.maxEntries and scan_zip_forward maxEntries (default 100000, the engine default; the scanner's default budget of 10000 is clamped to it, only an explicit value above it is refused). Integer >= 1, read once at startup; an invalid value refuses to start.
`ZIPNATIVE_MCP_WORKERS`	No	No	Operator ceiling for create_zip parallel.workers (default 8; with no explicit workers the engine default max(1, min(cores - 1, 8)) applies, bounded by this ceiling; 0 disables worker threads and keeps compression on the calling thread). Integer >= 0, read once at startup; an invalid value refuses to start.
`ZIPNATIVE_MCP_MAX_FILE_OUTPUT_BYTES`	No	No	Operator ceiling for every file written in outputMode='file' (create_zip, modify_zip, canonicalize_zip, merge_zip, extract_zip, inflate_raw), enforced while streaming (default 4294967296 = 4 GiB, the 1.0.0 behaviour). Integer >= 1048576, read once at startup; an invalid value refuses to start. Raise it to write Zip64 archives above 4 GiB into the sandbox (create_zip stream entries with zip64: true).

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/Nizoka/zipnative-mcp
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 1 secret: ZIPNATIVE_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account Nizoka
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	zipnative-mcp@1.1.0 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 90 files in zipnative-mcp@1.1.0: 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 90 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 59 / 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.

Popularity7 / 40

0 GitHub stars, 84 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity24 / 25

Last push 2026-10-26, last release 2026-10-19, 48 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, 1 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.Nizoka/zipnative-mcp`
Publisher	GitHub account Nizoka
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account Nizoka. 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 `zipnative-mcp` 1.1.0 (stdio)
Version	1.1.0
Published	2026-10-19
Last updated	2026-10-19
Source repository	https://github.com/Nizoka/zipnative-mcp
Website	https://github.com/Nizoka/zipnative-mcp#readme
Category	Files & documents (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zipnative-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "zipnative-mcp@1.1.0"
      ]
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

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For people and their AI

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