frugal (brainsparker/frugal) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. M8ven has not graded it yet. No publisher has claimed this listing.

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C
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60/100

frugal

The open routing layer for AI tools. MCP server that routes agent tool calls (search, extract, browse) across 8 providers per policy — cost, latency, pinning, deny lists — with failover and the routing decision on every result. One Go binary, BYOK, no account. Source-available, BUSL 1.1 → Apache 2.0.

→ brainsparker/frugal· listed on glama

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brainsparker

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// key findings
✅
No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation
Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.
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Open source with a license and README
Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.
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You'll be asked for 1 credential: FRUGAL_GEN_API_KEY
These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
configXDG_CACHE_HOME
🔐 secretFRUGAL_GEN_API_KEY
configFRUGAL_GEN_MODEL
// quality suggestions

Tools detected

No tools extracted — insufficient content to verify at Tier 2

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commit: 603a434a61d1181b64abcb561efddd7d6760c42d
code hash: b362562607437265f3f5e9ee787a1429aa0d55f71d2203e54c6fb38359465352
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