Vinv

io.github.VinvAI/vinv

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
No secrets
★ 48 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-08-22
Health score 68

About Vinv

Vinv is an MCP server published by the GitHub account VinvAI. Vinv runs, tests, and finds issues in your services — with zero code changes.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package vinv-mcp at version 0.0.5.

It asks for no keys or passwords.

Version 0.0.5 was published on 22 August 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
`VINV_WORKSPACE`	No	No	Optional override for the repo/workspace Vinv analyzes. Normally unset — the server uses the folder your client exposes via MCP roots, falling back to the current working directory.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/VinvAI/VinvAI
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 VinvAI
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	vinv-mcp@0.0.5 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 6 files in vinv-mcp@0.0.5: 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 6 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 68 / 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.

Popularity15 / 40

48 GitHub stars, 74 downloads last week, 5 Hacker News posts (11 points). Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-20, no GitHub release, 96 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

15 closed of 28 issues.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

5 forks, 30 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

5 Hacker News threads linking to the source code. We link to them and copy nothing.

Show HN: RL bandits pick coding agent's context,Grok 4.5 out-fixes Fable 5 3 points, 0 comments, 2026-07-28
Show HN: Vinv-Ties every runtime trace to code segment, prevents reward hacking 3 points, 0 comments, 2026-07-24
Show HN: Run, tests, and find issues in your services with no code changes 2 points, 6 comments, 2026-08-19
Show HN: VinvAI – Ties runtime trace to code segment, prevents reward hacking 2 points, 0 comments, 2026-07-24
Show HN: Vinv – IDE plug-in that finds and fixes bugs, dead code and perf issues 1 points, 0 comments, 2026-07-31

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

Facts

Registry name	`io.github.VinvAI/vinv`
Publisher	GitHub account VinvAI
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account VinvAI. 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 `vinv-mcp` 0.0.5 (stdio)
Version	0.0.5
Published	2026-08-22
Last updated	2026-08-22
Source repository	https://github.com/VinvAI/VinvAI
Website	https://vinv.ai
Category	Coding & design (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vinv": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "vinv-mcp@0.0.5"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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-vinvai-vinv.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.