artsonia-mcp

io.github.chrischall/artsonia-mcp

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
1 secret
★ 1 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-17
Health score 72

About artsonia-mcp

artsonia-mcp is an MCP server published by the GitHub account chrischall. Parent/fan access to Artsonia student-art portfolios, comments, and fans (AI-built).

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package artsonia-mcp at version 1.3.2.

It asks for one secret: ARTSONIA_PASSWORD. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 1.3.2 was published on 17 October 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
`ARTSONIA_USERNAME`	No	No	Your Artsonia login email address. Required in the default direct mode; not needed when ARTSONIA_TRANSPORT=fetchproxy (the signed-in browser tab carries the session).
`ARTSONIA_PASSWORD`	No	Yes	Your Artsonia account password. Required in the default direct mode; not needed when ARTSONIA_TRANSPORT=fetchproxy.
`ARTSONIA_SESSION_CACHE`	No	No	Set to false to disable the on-disk session cache and re-authenticate on every process start. Defaults to enabled.
`ARTSONIA_SESSION_FILE`	No	No	Absolute path for the session cache file. Defaults to $MCP_DATA_DIR/.artsonia-mcp/session-<user>.json.
`ARTSONIA_OUTPUT_DIR`	No	No	Folders artsonia_download_artwork may save into (a path-delimiter list: ':' on macOS/Linux, ';' on Windows). Unset: ~/Downloads and ~/Pictures, or $MCP_DATA_DIR/downloads when MCP_DATA_DIR is set. Any other dest is refused.
`ARTSONIA_TRANSPORT`	No	No	fetch (default) logs in directly with ARTSONIA_USERNAME/ARTSONIA_PASSWORD; fetchproxy is the optional fallback that rides your signed-in artsonia.com browser tab.
`ARTSONIA_WS_PORT`	No	No	fetchproxy WebSocket port override (default 37149, a shared fleet port). Only used when ARTSONIA_TRANSPORT=fetchproxy.
`ARTSONIA_INLINE_DOWNLOADS`	No	No	1/true/yes/on returns artsonia_download_artwork images inline as base64 image blocks instead of writing them to disk (for hosted deployments); unset/false saves to disk.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/chrischall/artsonia-mcp
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 1 secret: ARTSONIA_PASSWORD
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account chrischall
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	artsonia-mcp@1.3.2 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 34 files in artsonia-mcp@1.3.2: 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 34 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 72 / 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.

Popularity12 / 40

1 GitHub stars, 480 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-23, last release 2026-10-29, 137 commits in 90 days.

Issue health15 / 15

28 closed of 28 issues.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

0 forks, 209 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

No Hacker News threads link to its source code.

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.chrischall/artsonia-mcp`
Publisher	GitHub account chrischall
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account chrischall. 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 `artsonia-mcp` 1.3.2 (stdio)
Version	1.3.2
Published	2026-10-17
Last updated	2026-10-17
Source repository	https://github.com/chrischall/artsonia-mcp
Website	None linked
Category	Other (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "artsonia-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "artsonia-mcp@1.3.2"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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-chrischall-artsonia-mcp.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.