Priors

io.github.priors-agents/priors

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
1 secret
★ 7 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-14
Health score 76

About Priors

Priors is an MCP server published by the GitHub account priors-agents. Pay x402 APIs in USDG on Robinhood Chain, borrow and repay a Priors credit line, check records.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package @priors/mcp at version 0.9.3.

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

Version 0.9.3 was published on 14 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
`PRIORS_KEY`	No	Yes	Private key of a dedicated agent wallet on Robinhood Chain; without it (or PRIORS_KEY_FILE) only the read-only tools work
`PRIORS_KEY_FILE`	No	No	Absolute path (or ~/) of a file holding the agent wallet's key, read only when nobody but the user can read it; instead of PRIORS_KEY
`PRIORS_AGENT_ID`	No	No	The wallet's Priors (ERC-8004) agent id, when it cannot be looked up
`PRIORS_MAX_PRICE_USD`	No	No	Most one x402 call may cost (default 1.00)
`PRIORS_MAX_SPEND_USD`	No	No	Most x402 payments may total while the server runs (default 5)
`PRIORS_MAX_BORROW_USD`	No	No	Most one loan may be (default 25)
`PRIORS_MAX_SPEND_DAY_USD`	No	No	Most x402 payments may total per UTC day for the agent, across restarts (needs PRIORS_AGENT_ID)
`PRIORS_MAX_BORROW_DAY_USD`	No	No	Most the agent may borrow per UTC day, across restarts (needs PRIORS_AGENT_ID; 0 turns borrowing off)
`PRIORS_PAY_HOSTS`	No	No	Comma-separated exact hosts pay_url may pay; any other URL is refused before a request

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/priors-agents/priors
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 1 secret: PRIORS_KEY
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account priors-agents
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	@priors/mcp@0.9.3 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 18 files in @priors/mcp@0.9.3: 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 18 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 76 / 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.

Popularity17 / 40

7 GitHub stars, 1,853 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-28, no GitHub release, 260 commits in 90 days.

Issue health14 / 15

15 closed of 16 issues.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

7 forks, 2 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.

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

Facts

Registry name	`io.github.priors-agents/priors`
Publisher	GitHub account priors-agents
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account priors-agents. 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 `@priors/mcp` 0.9.3 (stdio)
Version	0.9.3
Published	2026-10-14
Last updated	2026-10-14
Source repository	https://github.com/priors-agents/priors
Website	https://priors.trade
Category	Search & web (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "priors": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@priors/mcp@0.9.3"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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-priors-agents-priors.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.