midday-ai/packrun

Health v2 · maintenance only

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Adoption not part of the score

3836 stars · 407 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

packrun.dev is a web service and MCP server that scores, compares, and ranks npm packages across 50+ categories using live metrics like downloads, bundle size, freshness, and quality. It exposes a REST API and MCP tools so AI coding assistants like Cursor and Claude can search packages, check health, and find alternatives.

Use cases

• compare npm packages before choosing one
• find alternatives to a deprecated or unmaintained package
• check the health and maintenance status of an npm package
• let my AI coding assistant recommend the best npm package
• find the smallest-bundle http client for my project
• search npm packages with fast relevance-ranked results
• validate package compatibility before installing

When to choose

• you're deciding between multiple npm packages for the same job
• you want an MCP server that gives AI assistants package intelligence
• you need automated, metric-based package scoring instead of manual research
• you want to discover modern alternatives to legacy packages like moment

When to avoid

• you need to actually install or publish packages (use npm itself)
• you need private or internal package registries
• you need scoring for non-npm ecosystems like PyPI or crates.io
• you require a formally licensed codebase (no license is specified)

Facets

service · maturity active

search-engine mcp package-manager developer-tools analytics developer-tools apis large-language-models cloud self-hosted npm-registry package-comparison package-scoring mcp-server nextjs turborepo typesense bundle-size dependency-selection ai-agents web-server nodejs typescript

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