71% of MCP packages are MIT — and that tells you almost nothing
We record the license of every package we compile. The distribution is unsurprising and worth stating plainly: 245 of 343 are MIT (71%), 51… We record…
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42 of 46 AI tools have a free tier, and that is a pricing signal
Of the 46 tools we track in detail, 42 have a free tier — a permanent one, not a trial. That is 91%, and… Of the…
Skills are not plugins, and the difference decides what you install
The most common misunderstanding about agent skills is that they add capability. They do not. A skill is markdown the model reads before acting;… The most…
Half of the MCP packages on npm are used fewer than a thousand times a week
Every directory ranks. Almost none publish the shape of what they are ranking. So here is ours, measured across the 343 npm packages that… Every directory…
56% of the MCP servers we reviewed are run by the vendor
When we review a server we record who runs it. Of 127 reviewed entries, 71 are published by the vendor whose product they connect… When we…
What 156 MCP packages on npm actually look like
Directories rank. They rarely tell you what the population looks like. So we measured ours: every npm package we could verify declares an MCP… Directories rank.…