prism-coder

io.github.dcostenco/prism-coder

5/8 checks passed
Runs locally
3 secrets
★ 156 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-23
Health score 70

About prism-coder

prism-coder is an MCP server published by the GitHub account dcostenco. Session memory for coding agents: local-first recall, drift detection, on-device inference.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package prism-mcp-server at version 20.22.4.

It asks for 3 secrets: BRAVE_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY and SUPABASE_KEY. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 20.22.4 was published on 23 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: 5 pass, 3 warn, 0 fail, 1 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`BRAVE_API_KEY`	No	Yes	Brave Search API key for web search tools
`GEMINI_API_KEY`	No	Yes	Google Gemini API key for AI-powered summarization and embeddings
`SUPABASE_URL`	No	No	Supabase project URL for session memory and knowledge persistence
`SUPABASE_KEY`	No	Yes	Supabase service role key for database access
`PRISM_USER_ID`	No	No	User ID for multi-tenant row-level security isolation (defaults to 'default')
`GCP_PROJECT_ID`	No	No	Google Cloud project ID for Vertex AI Discovery Engine integration
`VERTEX_LOCATION`	No	No	Vertex AI location/region (defaults to 'global')
`VERTEX_DATA_STORE_ID`	No	No	Vertex AI Discovery Engine data store ID for enterprise search

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/dcostenco/prism-coder
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Warn	Asks for 3 secrets: BRAVE_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY, SUPABASE_KEY
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account dcostenco
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Warn	Runs at install: postinstall: node -e "import('./dist/postinstall.js').catch(()=>{})"
Code red flags	Warn	Very long encoded blob in code (dist/dashboard/server.js:1383: ""iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAALQAAAC0CAYAAAA9zQYyAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAERlWElmTU0AKgAAAAgAAYdpAAQAAAABAAA")
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 226 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 70 / 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.

Popularity22 / 40

156 GitHub stars, 1,343 downloads last week, 1 Hacker News post (2 points). Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-28, last release 2026-05-10, 338 commits in 90 days.

Issue health15 / 15

38 closed of 39 issues.

Our checks8 / 20

3 warnings, each costing a fifth.

27 forks, 188 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

1 Hacker News thread linking to the source code. We link to them and copy nothing.

Show HN: Prism Coder – Qwen3.5-14B fine-tuned for MCP tool-routing decisions 2 points, 0 comments, 2026-05-20

Look further: search Reddit, search Hacker News, read its GitHub issues. These are not reviews we checked.

Facts

Registry name	`io.github.dcostenco/prism-coder`
Publisher	GitHub account dcostenco
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account dcostenco. 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 `prism-mcp-server` 20.22.4 (stdio)
Version	20.22.4
Published	2026-10-23
Last updated	2026-10-23
Source repository	https://github.com/dcostenco/prism-coder
Website	None linked
Category	AI & media generation (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "prism-coder": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "prism-mcp-server@20.22.4"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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-dcostenco-prism-coder.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.