Ripedeps MCP

An official MCP server that provides deterministic Node.js dependency upgrade plans for package.json files. It analyzes live npm registry data to recommend versions that are old enough, aligned with peers, and within allowed step sizes, returning diffs and explanations without writing to the user's repository.

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Vendor evidenceStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-01Operated by Ripedeps

MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)

https://mcp.ripedeps.com/mcp

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What you can do with it

Generate deterministic upgrade plans for Node.js dependencies
Explain reasons for holding back or upgrading specific packages
Provide diffs and updated package.json content for AI agents
Integrate dependency planning into AI coding workflows

Source and maintenance

Vendor evidenceRegistry 1.4.9

mcp-registry: com.ripedeps/ripedeps@1.4.9 Project website

Protocol and capabilities

Server: ripedeps 1.4.10
MCP protocol: 2025-06-18
Tools: 1 advertised
Resources: Not advertised
Resource templates: Not advertised
Prompts: Not advertised

Server-advertised capabilities

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  "tools": {
    "listChanged": true
  }
}

Tools

1 advertised

plan_upgrade — Plan package.json upgrades

Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Recommends version upgrades for a package.json: the newest versions that are old enough and within the allowed step size, kept aligned with each other (peer dependencies and the first-level dependencies of the packages). Deterministic, no AI. Returns the new package.json, a unified diff (apply with `patch -p1`) and a per-package table with the reasons. Every package has an `explanation` sentence and `notes` lists other changes to the file (the `ripedeps` entry): relay them to the user as the rationale for each change. Send the file as `packageJson` (text) or as `packageJsonUrl` (https URL of a raw file), exactly one of them. Recommended: minAgeDays 7 (versions younger than 7 days are not proposed). The default is 0, or the `ripedeps` entry of the file. maxBump defaults to minor. Use `focus` to restrict the upgrade to some packages (and their direct neighbours). Try more than one level: a plan only suggests and writes nothing, so calling again is cheap. Start with minor; if a package is held with a `level-limit` reason (a newer major exists), call again with maxBump "major" (optionally with `focus`) and compare. A `held` result is a reasoned decision for that one package, not a ban on the level: its reason names what blocks it (a peer or dependency constraint). Apply a larger step only when the user approves it. Privacy: We do not keep your package.json: every upload is processed from scratch and discarded, nothing about its content or your IP address is remembered. Only anonymous statistics (file size, number of dependencies, number of changes) are counted.

plan_upgrade input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "properties": {
    "focus": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Exact names or * globs; a bare name like \"trpc\" also matches @trpc/*. Empty means global"
    },
    "maxBump": {
      "enum": [
        "patch",
        "minor",
        "major"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Default minor, or the ripedeps entry of the file"
    },
    "minAgeDays": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 365,
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "Minimum age of a version since its release (default 0, or the ripedeps entry of the file)"
    },
    "packageJson": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The full text of package.json (formatting is preserved in the diff)"
    },
    "packageJsonUrl": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "https URL of a package.json that the service downloads (use the raw file URL)"
    },
    "skipAdoptConfig": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Do not write the effective settings into the output package.json"
    }
  }
}

plan_upgrade output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "diff",
    "updatedPackageJson",
    "packages",
    "warnings",
    "notes",
    "meta"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "diff": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Unified diff (a/package.json, b/package.json) that `patch -p1` applies"
    },
    "meta": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "settings",
        "input",
        "exact",
        "components",
        "stale"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "exact": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "false when the solver budget was exhausted and the best solution found is returned"
        },
        "input": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
            "source",
            "bytes"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "url": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Without query string and fragment"
            },
            "bytes": {
              "type": "integer",
              "maximum": 9007199254740991,
              "minimum": -9007199254740991
            },
            "source": {
              "enum": [
                "inline",
                "url"
              ],
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "additionalProperties": false
        },
        "stale": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "true when expired package metadata was served because revalidation failed"
        },
        "settings": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
            "minAgeDays",
            "maxBump"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "maxBump": {
              "type": "object",
              "required": [
                "value",
                "source"
              ],
              "properties": {
                "value": {
                  "enum": [
                    "patch",
                    "minor",
                    "major"
                  ],
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Highest allowed step relative to the version in package.json"
                },
                "source": {
                  "enum": [
                    "request",
                    "file",
                    "default"
                  ],
                  "type": "string"
                }
              },
              "additionalProperties": false
            },
            "minAgeDays": {
              "type": "object",
              "required": [
                "value",
                "source"
              ],
              "properties": {
                "value": {
                  "type": "integer",
                  "maximum": 9007199254740991,
                  "minimum": -9007199254740991
                },
                "source": {
                  "enum": [
                    "request",
                    "file",
                    "default"
                  ],
                  "type": "string"
                }
              },
              "additionalProperties": false
            }
          },
          "additionalProperties": false
        },
        "components": {
          "type": "integer",
          "maximum": 9007199254740991,
          "minimum": -9007199254740991
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "notes": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Changes to the output file that are not package upgrades (e.g. the ripedeps entry)"
    },
    "packages": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "name",
          "section",
          "oldRange",
          "newRange",
          "oldVersion",
          "newVersion",
          "step",
          "status",
          "publishedAt",
          "bestVersion",
          "reasons",
          "explanation"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "name": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "step": {
            "enum": [
              "none",
              "patch",
              "minor",
              "major"
            ],
            "type": "string"
          },
          "status": {
            "enum": [
              "upgrade",
              "held",
              "current",
              "outside-focus",
              "skipped"
            ],
            "type": "string"
          },
          "reasons": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "object",
              "required": [
                "kind",
                "message"
              ],
              "properties": {
                "kind": {
                  "enum": [
                    "age-gate",
                    "engines",
                    "level-limit",
                    "peer",
                    "dependency",
                    "pulled-in"
                  ],
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "ageDays": {
                  "type": "number"
                },
                "message": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "version": {
                  "type": "string"
                }
              },
              "additionalProperties": false
            }
          },
          "section": {
            "enum": [
              "dependencies",
              "devDependencies",
              "optionalDependencies"
            ],
            "type": "string"
          },
          "newRange": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "oldRange": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "newVersion": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "oldVersion": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "skipReason": {
            "enum": [
              "non-semver-specifier",
              "open-ended",
              "complex-range",
              "unsupported-range",
              "prerelease",
              "invalid-value",
              "unknown-package",
              "lookup-failed"
            ],
            "type": "string"
          },
          "bestVersion": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "The highest candidate version"
          },
          "explanation": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "One sentence saying what happened to this package and why"
          },
          "publishedAt": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Release time of the new version (ISO 8601)"
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": false
      }
    },
    "warnings": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "code",
          "message"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "code": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "message": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "package": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": false
      }
    },
    "updatedPackageJson": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

plan_upgrade annotations

{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": true
}

Prompts

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30-day availability

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Successful checks: 1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency: 678 ms
95th percentile latency: 678 ms

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.

Claude Code configuration

claude mcp add --transport http ripedeps-mcp https://mcp.ripedeps.com/mcp

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).

Codex configuration

codex mcp add ripedeps-mcp --url https://mcp.ripedeps.com/mcp

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable ripedeps-mcp in your MCP settings.

Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ripedeps-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.ripedeps.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).

Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ripedeps-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://mcp.ripedeps.com/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start ripedeps-mcp and inspect its tools.

VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "ripedeps-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.ripedeps.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.

Gemini CLI configuration

gemini mcp add --transport http ripedeps-mcp https://mcp.ripedeps.com/mcp

Claude Desktop

Merge this into claude_desktop_config.json (macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\), then restart Claude Desktop.

Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ripedeps-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.ripedeps.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.

Windsurf configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ripedeps-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.ripedeps.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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