inspectorMaintained
Visual testing tool for MCP servers
Is it still shipping?
Yes. inspector is maintained. The last commit was today, and it scores 91/100.
freshness 91/100
Every night it was read38 nightly readings, August 4, 2026 to September 13, 2026. Bar height is freshness out of 100; the ink is the verdict that night.
65, maintained25, dead
August 4, 2026September 13, 2026
How the verdict was reached
read September 13, 2026 from the GitHub API for modelcontextprotocol/inspector| Signal | Value | Effect | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base | 100 | 100 | Every row starts at 100, and the effects below move it. |
| Last commit | today, September 13, 2026 | none | Pushed today. |
| Commits, 90 days | 100+ | none | 100+ commits in the last 12 weeks. |
| Last release | 2.6.0, 3 days ago | +4 | Released 2.6.0 3 days ago; 27 releases in the last year. |
| Release cadence | 8 days, median | not scored | |
| Issue response | 4h, median | +6 | Maintainers reply to new issues in about 4 hours. |
| Unanswered issues | 75% of 8 sampled | -8 | 75% of the recent issues sampled have no maintainer reply at all. |
| Committers, 90 days | 1 | -5 | One person has committed in the last 90 days. Single point of failure. |
| Bus factor | 1 | not scored | |
| Archived | no | not scored | |
| Licence | none declared | -6 | No license file. Legally unsafe to depend on regardless of activity. |
| Freshness | 91/100 | 91 | 65 and above is maintained. |