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nexus-agents

Governance substrate for AI coding agents — adversarial PR review, drift-detected rules, tamper-evident audit, and closed-loop outcome routing for Claude, Codex, Gemini, and…

MCP server · by nexus-substrate

About

nexus-agents is an MCP server published by nexus-substrate. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (npm registry (MCP servers)). The last change we recorded was on 2026-11-03. As of our marketplace pass on 2026-11-04.

In its own words, on npm registry (MCP servers):

Governance substrate for AI coding agents — adversarial PR review, drift-detected rules, tamper-evident audit, and closed-loop outcome routing for Claude, Codex, Gemini, and OpenCode

What it asks for

  • Runs on your machine

None of the marketplaces we read publishes its tools or the settings it asks for.

What it declares, asks for and runs, in full

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Package

npm nexus-agents (nexus-agents on npm)

  • npm downloads/week: 2 787 (2026-11-01)
  • npm downloads/month: 24 436 (2026-11-01)
  • Latest version on npm: 15.3.0, published 2026-10-31

npm facts come from the public npm registry (registry.npmjs.org, api.npmjs.org). Each figure is the registry's own and is never added to another. A registry that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.

Connect

No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.

Check its listing on npm registry (MCP servers)

Where it is published

MarketplaceStatusVersionFiguresVerifiedFirst seen
npm registry (MCP servers) (Open on npm) Listed 15.3.0 Downloads/month (npm): 24 436
Downloads/week (npm): 2 787
Forks (GitHub): 2
Stars (GitHub): 23
Not marked

Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.

How its figures have moved

Stars (GitHub)
+1 since 14.10
22-23 · 3 readings
  1. 2026-10-1422
  2. 2026-10-1823
  3. 2026-11-0423

Each dot is a day we read a different number; flat stretches are days the number did not move. Figures of different marketplaces are never added up.

What the bundle contains

As published on Community GitHub marketplaces.

Skills: 34

  • api-and-interface-design
  • browser-testing-with-devtools
  • bug-fix
  • code-simplification
  • codex-delegator
  • context-engineering
  • deprecation-and-migration
  • dev-pipeline
  • diataxis
  • docs-chart
  • docs-image
  • docs-mermaid
Show the remaining 22
  • docs-review
  • docs-rewrite
  • documentation-management
  • dogfooding-issues
  • e2e-validation
  • gemini-delegator
  • hotfix
  • implement-feature
  • infrastructure-management
  • performance-optimization
  • pre-push-parity
  • release
  • requirements-gathering
  • research-and-vote
  • reviewing-code
  • security-advisory-response
  • security-scanning
  • self-critique
  • system-review
  • test-driven-development
  • ui-ux-design
  • version-check

Agents: 12

  • architecture-expert
  • code-expert
  • data-visualization-expert
  • devops-expert
  • documentation-expert
  • infrastructure-expert
  • pm-expert
  • qa-expert
  • research-expert
  • security-expert
  • testing-expert
  • ux-expert

Hooks: 1

  • PreToolUse

What changed

  1. Its main listing changed
  2. No longer listed on Community GitHub marketplaces
  3. Community GitHub marketplaces: removed
  4. npm registry (MCP servers): released version 15.3.0 (was 15.2.0)
  5. Community GitHub marketplaces: released version 15.3.0 (was 15.2.0)
  6. Became a product we track
  7. Community GitHub marketplaces: appeared
  8. npm registry (MCP servers): released version 15.2.0 (was 15.1.1)
  9. npm registry (MCP servers): released version 15.1.1 (was 15.0.0)
  10. npm registry (MCP servers): released version 15.0.0 (was 14.0.5)
  11. npm registry (MCP servers): released version 14.0.5 (was 14.0.1)
  12. npm registry (MCP servers): released version 14.0.1 (was 14.0.0)
  13. npm registry (MCP servers): released version 14.0.0 (was 12.8.0)
  14. npm registry (MCP servers): released version 12.8.0 (was 12.7.0)
  15. npm registry (MCP servers): released version 12.7.0 (was 12.2.1)
  16. npm registry (MCP servers): released version 12.2.1 (was 11.7.0)
  17. npm registry (MCP servers): released version 11.7.0 (was 11.6.2)
  18. npm registry (MCP servers): released version 11.6.2 (was 11.6.0)
  19. npm registry (MCP servers): released version 11.6.0 (was 11.5.9)

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