Voyager

io.github.dir-aiPublished by GitHub account dir-aiv1.4.0Updated Nov 10, 2026

Cited, OSV-gated, injection-hardened web briefs for coding agents. Verified, never raw web.

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Overview

AI-generated overview

Voyager gives coding agents cited, vulnerability-gated web briefs and package checks instead of raw web content.

What you can do
Voyager turns a query into a cited, confidence-scored brief that combines package verification, GitHub discovery, canonical docs, and open-web search. Its check tool applies a fail-closed OSV vulnerability gate plus provenance, license, and age signals, and can optionally reproduce a package install and smoke-import inside an isolated container. Fetched text is stripped of instruction-shaped payloads and framed as untrusted evidence. It ships as a CLI, library, and MCP server with tools check_package, retrieve, discover_repos, and fetch_docs.
When to use it
Use it when a coding agent needs to research packages or libraries and you want verified, cited results rather than raw web pages. It also works as a CI gate that fails a build when an agent picks a vulnerable, deprecated, or non-existent dependency.
Requirements
Runs locally over stdio, typically via npx @dir-ai/voyager mcp or the Docker image. Node.js is needed for the npm package. The Tier-A core (npm, PyPI, OSV, unauthenticated GitHub) works with no keys; optional Tier-C search providers need keys such as TAVILY_API_KEY or GITHUB_TOKEN, or a custom key resolver. The isolated twin requires a container runtime.
Before you install
The isolated twin executes package code, but only inside a hardened, network-isolated, read-only, non-root container; without a container runtime it refuses to run rather than execute on the host, and it proves installation and entrypoint loading, not safety. Optional provider keys such as TAVILY_API_KEY and GITHUB_TOKEN are read from the environment or an injected resolver; no secret is written to the on-disk cache. Queries leave the machine to the allowlisted public API hosts.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Voyager in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.

Other MCP clients

Follow the launch instructions in the repository.

README

voyager

The verified-brief organ for coding agents.

An AI coding agent that reaches the open internet gets a raw, unsigned, possibly-poisoned blob and feeds it straight into its own prompt. voyager sits in front of that: it turns a query into a cited, confidence-scored, OSV-gated, injection-hardened brief — the only surface your model ever sees.

Every claim carries its provenance and a confidence signal. Package recommendations pass a fail-closed OSV vulnerability gate, surface build provenance (npm SLSA attestations) when present, and can be reproduced in a disposable twin — install + smoke-import run inside a hardened, rootless, network-isolated container (never on the host). That proves the package installs and its entrypoint loads; it is not a safety proof. All fetched text is stripped of instruction-shaped payloads (multilingual + base64 + markdown /HTML vectors) and framed as untrusted evidence the model must analyze, never obey.

  • check — is this package safe to use? Registry facts + OSV gate (fail-closed)
    • provenance/license/age supply-chain signals + optional isolated twin. Exit codes: 0 ok · 1 rejected (unsafe) · 2 tool/usage error (no verdict).
  • brief / retrieve — a cited brief combining package verification, GitHub discovery, canonical docs, and open-web search, each cross-referenced.
  • security by construction — one egress allowlist, https-only, streamed size cap, injection-strip + evidence framing. Zero-network unless you query.

CLI, library, and MCP server.

Install

bash
npm i @dir-ai/voyagernpx -y @dir-ai/voyager check express

CLI

bash
voyager check <name> [--ecosystem npm|pypi] [--version V] [--twin]   # exit 1 if unsafevoyager brief "<query>" [--package name] [--discover "<intent>"] [--search "<q>"] [--docs <lib>]voyager discover "<intent>"     # GitHub repo discovery (Tier-A)voyager search "<query>"        # open-web search (Tier-C, needs a key)voyager docs <library>          # canonical docs (Tier-B)voyager doctor                  # which source keys are configured

check is a natural CI gate: fail the build if an agent picked a vulnerable, deprecated, or non-existent dependency.

Library

ts
import { checkPackage, voyagerRetrieve, setKeyResolver } from '@dir-ai/voyager'
const v = await checkPackage({ name: 'express', ecosystem: 'npm' })// → { verdict: 'belief' | 'fact' | 'rejected', claim, steps }  (adversarial trace)
const brief = await voyagerRetrieve('a safe date library', {  packages: [{ name: 'date-fns', ecosystem: 'npm' }],  discover: 'date library',})brief.rendered   // the injection-hardened, framed text to feed a modelbrief.claims     // structured, cited, confidence-scored
// Bring your own key store (default is env vars):setKeyResolver((provider) => mySecrets.get(provider))

MCP server

jsonc
// .mcp.json{  "mcpServers": {    "voyager": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@dir-ai/voyager", "mcp"] }  }}

Tools: check_package, retrieve, discover_repos, fetch_docs.

Docker

bash
docker run --rm ghcr.io/dir-ai/voyager check expressdocker run -i --rm ghcr.io/dir-ai/voyager mcp   # stdio MCP

Tiers & trust

TierSourceBase trust
AGitHub · npm · PyPI · OSV (structured facts)high
Bcanonical docs (official hosts only)high
Copen-web search (Tavily / Exa / Apify)low — cross-referenced before trusted
Disolated twin (install + smoke in a container)reproduction, not a safety proof

Keys are optional: the Tier-A core (npm/PyPI/OSV, and GitHub unauthenticated) is zero-key. Tier-C providers each no-op without their key. Set GITHUB_TOKEN, TAVILY_API_KEY, etc., or inject a resolver.

Security posture

One egress allowlist (a fixed set of public API hosts), https-only, redirect: error, a streamed byte cap that aborts an oversized body mid-download, and an injection-strip that removes role-hijacks / chat-template tokens / zero-width & bidi characters, decodes-and-rescans base64, neutralizes markdown images and HTML comments, and matches instruction payloads across several languages. The framing is the real defense — the strip keeps it from being trivially escaped. The twin runs the package's code only inside a hardened, network-isolated, read-only, non-root container; with no container runtime it refuses to run (returns unsupported) rather than execute on the host. See SECURITY.md.

Cache

Idempotent Tier-A facts (npm / PyPI / OSV) are cached in-process and on disk under ~/.voyager/cache (content-addressed, TTL'd) so repeated checks are fast, survive across runs, and lean less on the network. No secret is ever written (auth headers are never part of a cache key or value). VOYAGER_NO_CACHE=1 disables it; VOYAGER_CACHE_DIR relocates it.

Roadmap

deps.dev-backed multi-ecosystem facts (crates / Go / RubyGems / Packagist), typosquatting detection, PyPI/cargo twins. Contributions welcome.

License

MIT © dir-ai

Source: README.md at commit e615413

Tools

0
SourceWeft has not started this package in its sandbox yet, so its tools are not known.

Version history

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  1. v1.4.0LatestSep 16, 2026

Score

50% of the applicable checks met

How complete this listing is, computed from the registry entry, the endpoint and public sources. Not a rating of the server and not a statement that it is safe or working today: reachability is a dated check, and no installs or reviews go into the score.

  • Reached in the last 30 days25 pts

    Keep the endpoint answering the MCP handshake; SourceWeft probes it every 30 days.

  • Auth declared10 pts

    Declare the credential headers in the registry entry, or keep the endpoint answering the probe so its auth can be classified.

  • Tools listed15 pts

    Answer tools/list without a credential, or ship a package that starts in a sandbox without one.

  • DescriptionRequired15 pts
  • Logo10 pts
  • Documentation15 pts
  • License10 pts