Changelog

About 125 packages published outside GitHub — the GNU tools and the X11 libraries among them — showed “No description available” on their package pages in the catalog. They now carry a description everywhere the catalog is served, including the JSON API and the markdown mirrors. Where a package’s upstream is not a source repository, the scorecard now explains why no score exists instead of only noting that one is missing.

Packages is out of soft launch: the catalog is linked from the site menu and the footer, and its listing and package detail pages are now search-indexable. Browse versions, advisories, dependencies, and supply-chain scorecards for every package Minimal ships — no account needed.

A new /pkgs/advisories page lists every security advisory affecting the catalog in one table — sortable by severity, affected package, or date, and filterable by severity. It pairs with the advisory feed for subscriptions and the catalog changelog for history.

The catalog changelog at /pkgs/changes can now compare any two commits, not just adjacent ones. Enter a base and target sha to see everything that changed between them — packages added or removed, version bumps, and advisory-count shifts — and share the resulting URL to hand someone the exact comparison.

The catalog is now a Model Context Protocol server. Run claude mcp add --transport http minimal-pkgs https://minimal.dev/api/mcp (or point any MCP client at /api/mcp) to give your agent typed tools for searching packages, reading advisories and SBOMs, inspecting dependencies, and diffing the catalog between commits.

Every package now has a badge you can drop into a README or wiki: ![minimal score](https://minimal.dev/api/pkgs/openssl/badge.svg) shows the package’s Minimal score, and ?metric=advisories shows its active-advisory count. Both stay in sync with the latest catalog data.

The not-found page got a terminal makeover, and a missed package path like /pkgs/opnssl now offers the closest real matches — one click away from openssl.

A new catalog changelog at /pkgs/changes shows what moved between catalog updates — packages added or removed, version bumps, and shifts in advisory counts — so you can track how the catalog evolves.

You can now move through the package catalog without touching the mouse. Press / to jump to search, use j and k to move between packages, and hit Enter to open the highlighted one.

The site footer has been redesigned and the Company page updated to match, making it easier to find your way around and get to know the team behind Minimal.

The documentation now includes a human-readable API reference for the package endpoints, so you can browse what each route returns without reading the raw schema.

The package catalog now speaks agent. An OpenAPI 3.1 description documents the /api/pkgs endpoints, /llms.txt gives AI tools a map of the site, and every package page has a plain-markdown mirror at /pkgs/<name>.md for easy consumption by scripts and LLMs.

Security advisories for catalog packages are now published as an Atom feed, so you can follow new disclosures in your feed reader or wire them into your own tooling.