# midday-ai/packrun

npm for agents and humans

Repository: https://github.com/midday-ai/packrun
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/packrun
Homepage: https://packrun.dev
Language: TypeScript
License Family: other
Topics: monorepo, nextjs, shadcn, tailwind, turborepo
Last push: 2026-02-06T16:42:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 52/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 66, release rhythm 35, longevity 52
- inputs: {"age_days": 734, "days_push": 208, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3836, forks 407 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:23.858345+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, mcp, package-manager, developer-tools, analytics
- domain: developer-tools, apis, large-language-models
- platform: cloud, self-hosted
- tags: npm-registry, package-comparison, package-scoring, mcp-server, nextjs, turborepo, typesense, bundle-size, dependency-selection, ai-agents, web-server, nodejs, typescript

## Member repositories
- midday-ai/packrun (main) score 52

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:23.858345+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:26:16.746837+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/midday-ai/packrun (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:23.858345+00:00, sha c6c3099190a3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.