# `ai.brownmatter/brainz` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/ai.brownmatter/brainz
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/ai.brownmatter/brainz
- Version: 0.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: ai.brownmatter (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-29T02:17:37.448Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Brainz
Shared product-knowledge graph for AI agent fleets — vault tools + agent self-signup over MCP.
```

Scanned 2026-10-29T02:17:55.130Z over streamable-http.

**16 tools: 3 can delete or cancel things, 1 do something that can't be undone, 5 change things and 7 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 3 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 1 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 5 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 7 | allow |

## Exfil surface

3 private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound paths in this server alone. Denying 1 outbound tool breaks every one: `mcp__brainz__link_concepts`.

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | `mcp__brainz__list_tasks` `mcp__brainz__search_concepts` `mcp__brainz__vault_stats` |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | `mcp__brainz__dream` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | `mcp__brainz__link_concepts` |

| Private data | Untrusted input | Outbound |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `mcp__brainz__list_tasks` | `mcp__brainz__dream` | `mcp__brainz__link_concepts` |
| `mcp__brainz__search_concepts` | `mcp__brainz__dream` | `mcp__brainz__link_concepts` |
| `mcp__brainz__vault_stats` | `mcp__brainz__dream` | `mcp__brainz__link_concepts` |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Deletes or cancels (3)

Removes, cancels or revokes something. Claude Code: deny.

### `delete_concept`

- The name "delete_concept" says "delete": a word for removing or ending something.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Remove a concept from the vault and all of its outgoing edges. Use to clear a note that is wrong, obsolete, or junk (e.g. a probe or test node that shouldn't be in the graph). Idempotent: deleting an id that doesn't exist is a no-op success (deleted:false), not an error. Deletion is permanent — prefer upsert_concept to correct a note you want to keep. Returns { deleted, id }.
```

### `dream`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Dreaming: a scheduled consolidation sweep over this vault. Light stages what changed since the last dream (near-duplicate concepts, finished task outcomes, hygiene counts); REM asks an LLM for proposals; deep applies the ones that pass threshold gates: merges duplicates (edges redirected, the other tombstoned), promotes outcome knowledge into concepts, adds missing links, and files a task for each contradiction. A sweep that would touch too much of the vault is rejected; every applied dream keeps preimages and can be reverted. {action: "status"} shows schedule + last dream; {action: "run"} dreams now; {action: "diary"} reads the Dream Diary; {action: "revert", id} undoes one dream; {action: "configure", enabled?, cadenceHours?} sets it up. Without an LLM only light runs.
```

### `upsert_concept`

- The name "upsert_concept" says "upsert": a word for a change.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Write a concept note into the vault (creates or overwrites the markdown file, then reindexes it). Use to capture new product knowledge discovered during a task — a decision made, a constraint hit, a pattern adopted — so future agents can find it. Omit `id` to derive a slug from the title; pass an existing id to update that note. Body is markdown; [[wiki-links]] to other concept ids create graph edges. Returns the saved concept's metadata.
```

## Can't be undone (1)

Sends, pays, publishes or merges: once done, it cannot be taken back. Claude Code: ask.

### `link_concepts`

- The name "link_concepts" says "link": a word for a change.
- The input addresses people (input.to): what it sends cannot be taken back.
- Tag outbound: The input takes a destination (input.to): what the tool writes goes there.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Add a typed, directed edge between two existing concepts by editing the `from` note's frontmatter (e.g. lead-scoring depends_on contact-model). Use when you notice a relationship the vault is missing. Both concepts should already exist; use upsert_concept first if not.
```

## Changes things (5)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `complete_task`

- The description's first verb is "mark": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Mark a task done. Sets taskStatus=done + doneAt and appends `outcome` to the task body as an Outcome section. The result carries a one-line `reminder` that the rest of the graph is not updated automatically.
```

### `create_task`

- The name "create_task" says "create": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Turn a finding into first-class work: creates a `task`-type concept with taskStatus=open and the given relations — part_of a domain, `realizes` stories/features, `governed_by` specs — plus codeAreas pointing at where the work lands. Use when you discover work that isn't reflected in the codebase yet (a gap, a needed fix, a follow-up). The task then shows up in list_tasks / take_task and on the Kanban board.
```

### `onboard`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Index an existing product's codebase into this vault. {action: "start"} returns the onboarding playbook: a method for surveying the codebase and recording its product knowledge (domains, features, stories, specs, workflows, decisions, constraints) as concepts via upsert_concept, each anchored to the code with codeAreas. {action: "status", areaList} reports onboarded state, concept counts and, given your repo's source areas (Brainz can't read the repo), which areas are covered or uncovered. {action: "complete", summary, areaList} marks the vault onboarded and stores the summary; it is rejected while too many areas are uncovered. Until onboarding completes, search_concepts and get_context results include a one-line note saying so.
```

### `sync`

- The name "sync" says "sync": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Re-index an onboarded vault after the code changes (drift). {action: "start"} returns the sync playbook: the vault's last_synced_at, a coverage map over the concepts' code_areas, and a method for re-indexing only what changed (you run git — Brainz can't read the repo — and pass back changedPaths + areaList): update stale concepts in place, add concepts or tasks for new work, and report coverage gaps. {action: "status", areaList} reports onboarded state, last sync time, staleness, concept counts and coverage. {action: "complete", summary, areaList} stamps last_synced_at and appends the summary to the product-onboarding-summary concept (a running sync log). After ~14 days without a sync, get_context and search results include a one-line note saying so.
```

### `take_task`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Claim a task and get its briefing in one call. Pass an `id` to claim a specific task, or omit it to claim the next open task (oldest open by createdAt then id). Atomically flips the task to "taken" and records takenBy/takenAt; errors if it's already taken or done. Returns the task and a get_context-style briefing for its part_of domain plus the concepts it realizes / is governed_by (with code_areas). complete_task marks it done.
```

## Only reads (7)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `get_concept`

- The name "get_concept" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch one concept by exact id: full markdown body, metadata, and its direct graph neighbors (each with the relation that connects it). Use after search_concepts or when another note wiki-links an id you need in full. The neighbors list tells you what to fetch next. If you don't know the id, use search_concepts instead.
```

### `get_context`

- The name "get_context" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Assemble a markdown briefing of the concepts most relevant to a query and/or explicit ids, expanded through the graph and trimmed to a token budget. The briefing is self-contained, so it can be handed to another agent or pasted into a prompt as-is. The final JSON line reports which concept ids were included, whether the bundle was truncated, and its approximate token count. Provide at least one of `query` or `ids`.
```

### `get_related`

- The name "get_related" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Walk the knowledge graph outward from a concept and return everything within `depth` hops, with distance and the edge path that reached it. Use to map the blast radius before changing a feature (what depends on it, what constrains it, which decisions apply) or to discover structure that keyword search misses. Filter by relation names (e.g. depends_on) to follow only one kind of edge.
```

### `list_concepts`

- The name "list_concepts" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Enumerate concept metadata (no bodies), optionally filtered by product, type, or a single tag. Use to get the lay of the land in an unfamiliar vault, to audit what exists (e.g. all decisions for a product), or when search vocabulary isn't matching. For content, follow up with get_concept or get_context.
```

### `list_tasks`

- The name "list_tasks" says "list": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "list" and "vault": it reads secrets.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the vault's work pile: `task`-type concepts with their lifecycle (open/taken/done), oldest first, including who has taken each one (takenBy). Filter by taskStatus or by the domain the tasks are part_of. Read-only; take_task is what claims a task.
```

### `search_concepts`

- The name "search_concepts" says "search": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "search" and "vault": it reads secrets.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search the product knowledge vault by free-text query. Useful when you need product knowledge but don't yet know which concept ids exist. Returns ranked hits (id, title, type, score, snippet) only; get_concept returns one full note and get_context an assembled briefing. An empty hit list means nothing matched.
```

### `vault_stats`

- The description's first verb is "summarize": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The name "vault_stats" says "vault": it reads secrets. The description's first sentence says "summarize" and "vault": it reads secrets.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Summarize the vault: counts of concepts and edges, the products and tags in use, a breakdown by concept type, and whether semantic search is available. Useful for gauging how much knowledge is here and which product/tag filters exist.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `brainz`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__brainz__search_concepts",
      "mcp__brainz__get_concept",
      "mcp__brainz__get_related",
      "mcp__brainz__get_context",
      "mcp__brainz__list_concepts",
      "mcp__brainz__vault_stats",
      "mcp__brainz__list_tasks"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__brainz__link_concepts",
      "mcp__brainz__onboard",
      "mcp__brainz__sync",
      "mcp__brainz__take_task",
      "mcp__brainz__complete_task",
      "mcp__brainz__create_task"
    ],
    "deny": [
      "mcp__brainz__upsert_concept",
      "mcp__brainz__delete_concept",
      "mcp__brainz__dream"
    ]
  }
}
```

Capability tags behind the rules (a read tagged outbound is asked about):

- `mcp__brainz__search_concepts`: private-data
- `mcp__brainz__link_concepts`: outbound
- `mcp__brainz__vault_stats`: private-data
- `mcp__brainz__dream`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__brainz__list_tasks`: private-data