# `ai.howseen/howseen-mcp` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/ai.howseen/howseen-mcp
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/ai.howseen/howseen-mcp
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: ai.howseen (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/howseen-ai/howseen-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:41:55.443Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Howseen
How ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI name your brand, cite sources and rank rivals.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:30:29.463Z over streamable-http.

**29 tools: 5 can delete or cancel things, 1 do something that can't be undone, 10 change things and 13 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 5 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 1 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 10 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 13 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Deletes or cancels (5)

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

### `archive_prompts`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Archive prompts: they stop being scanned (frees prompt quota) but keep their history and stay listed as archived in the dashboard, restorable. Preview first; confirm: true applies.
```

### `delete_article`

- The name "delete_article" 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
Move an article (planned, draft or published) to the Trash, like the dashboard delete button: restorable with restore_article or in Howseen > Content > Trash, and its topic is not planned again. A post already live on the client's own CMS (WordPress, Shopify...) is NOT removed from the CMS: the preview says where it stays live. Always call WITHOUT confirm first and show the preview to the user; call again with confirm: true only after they approve.
```

### `publish_article`

- The name "publish_article" says "publish": a word for a change that another call does not undo.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Publish a written article (e.g. a draft from draft_article) to the brand's connected CMS (WordPress, Shopify, Ghost, BigCommerce, webhook) or hosted blog, now, or schedule it for a later date (needs Autopilot ON). Goes live publicly. Preview first; confirm: true publishes and returns the URL.
```

### `remove_competitor`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Stop tracking a competitor (by name or domain). Past results keep it. Preview first; confirm: true applies.
```

### `remove_prompts`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Stop tracking prompts and remove them from the prompt list (past scan results stay in history). Prefer archive_prompts to keep them listed. Preview first; confirm: true applies.
```

## Can't be undone (1)

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

### `create_share_report`

- The name "create_share_report" says "create": a word for a change.
- The input addresses people (input.to): what it sends cannot be taken back.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Create a public, frozen report link (visibility, competitors, top prompts, recommendations) with the account's agency branding, like the dashboard Share button. Preview first; confirm: true creates the link.
```

## Changes things (10)

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

### `add_competitor`

- The name "add_competitor" says "add": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Track a competitor from a name or a website URL (resolved to name + domain like in Settings), within the competitor quota. Preview first; confirm: true applies.
```

### `add_prompts`

- The name "add_prompts" says "add": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Track new buyer questions (prompts) for the brand, checked against the plan's prompt quota (the whole list is refused if it would exceed it). An archived prompt added again is restored. Preview first; confirm: true applies.
```

### `dismiss_action`

- The name "dismiss_action" says "dismiss": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Dismiss an action-plan item the user does not want to do (moves it to Archived in the dashboard, out of the next best actions). Reversible in the dashboard. Preview first; confirm: true applies.
```

### `draft_article`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Write a DRAFT article answering one buyer question, with the same quality pipeline as the app (brand context, sources AI cites, GEO checks). Never publishes. Uses the plan's article allowance. Preview first; confirm: true writes it (up to about a minute).
```

### `mark_action_done`

- The name "mark_action_done" says "mark": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Mark an action-plan item as done (same state as the dashboard Action plan). Use the action id from get_action_plan or get_easiest_wins. Preview first; confirm: true applies.
```

### `refresh_article`

- 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
Rewrite a WRITTEN article with the brand's current profile (offer, category, offerings, competitors) after it changed: same article id, slug, question and date, previous version kept (restorable in the app). A published article is never overwritten: the update lands in a refreshed draft. Free once per article after a profile change, otherwise uses the article allowance. Give article_id (list_articles) or the article's target question. Preview first (shows what changes and the quota impact); confirm: true rewrites it (up to about a minute).
```

### `request_indexing`

- The name "request_indexing" says "request": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Submit a published article to the search engines connected for the brand: Google (sitemap re-submit through Search Console when connected with indexing), Bing (Webmaster key) or IndexNow for pages hosted by Howseen. If you publish on your own site from the API or feed, pass url (the live https address of the article on the brand's domain): Howseen records it and tracks indexing there. At most once per article every 24h. Preview first; confirm: true submits.
```

### `restore_article`

- 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
Bring back an article from the Trash (e.g. one deleted with delete_article). Preview first; confirm: true restores.
```

### `run_scan`

- The name "run_scan" says "run": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Scan the brand's prompts on the AI engines now, with the same limit as the dashboard Run now button (a fresh scan at most once per brand per plan cadence: every 72h, every 24h on Business; prompts added since the last scan can be scanned alone; an unfinished scan can be continued). Preview first; confirm: true runs about 45 seconds per call.
```

### `suggest_prompts`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Buyer questions worth tracking that the brand does not track yet: real questions from Hacker News discussions (ranked by engagement) plus AI suggestions for the category. Returns suggestions only; use add_prompts to track some. Limited to 20 calls per day.
```

## Only reads (13)

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

### `get_action_plan`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Prioritized actions to raise the brand's AI visibility (off-page: get listed on the pages AI cites; content: answer uncovered buyer questions), ranked 20/80 like the dashboard Action plan, with steps.
```

### `get_article_performance`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Articles written for the brand with status, GEO score, published URL and search-engine indexing status (Google URL Inspection, Bing), plus impressions and clicks when Search Console or Bing is connected.
```

### `get_changes`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
What changed between the last two completed scans (or since a date): prompts gained and lost, visibility delta per engine, tracked competitors newly named, and the likely causes (sources that started or stopped citing the brand).
```

### `get_competitors`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Compare the brand with its competitors in AI answers: visibility %, share of voice, average position and sentiment, overall and per engine.
```

### `get_easiest_wins`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Third-party sites and pages cited in the answers the brand loses (competitor named, brand not), ranked by how many lost answers cite them, with the matching action-plan item. Getting listed there is the shortest path back into those answers.
```

### `get_prompt_gaps`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Tracked prompts where AI names at least one competitor but not the brand, per engine, with the competitors named and the domains cited. Sorted by search volume (when a cached figure exists) then by number of competitors named. Start here to see what to win back.
```

### `get_top_sources`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The domains and URLs AI engines cite most when answering the brand's buyer questions, overall and per engine. Use it to find where the brand should get listed or mentioned.
```

### `get_usage`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Plan, quotas used and left (prompts, competitors, articles, manual scans), next automatic scan estimate, what this API key may do, and the API rate limits. Call it before planning changes.
```

### `get_visibility`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Headline AI visibility of a brand: % of AI answers that name it, share of voice vs competitors, average position, sentiment, per engine, plus the trend over the period (one point per scan).
```

### `list_articles`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Articles Howseen wrote for the brand (drafts, scheduled and published), with status, target question, GEO score and published URL.
```

### `list_brands`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the brands (websites) tracked in this Howseen account, with their id, name and domain. Call this first when the account may have several brands.
```

### `list_prompts`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The buyer questions (prompts) tracked for a brand, with per-prompt visibility, share of voice, position, which engines name the brand, and which brands and domains are cited.
```

### `search_responses`

- The name "search_responses" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Read real AI answers collected for the brand: excerpts around the brand mention, whether the brand and which competitors were named, and the cited URLs. Filter by a word in the question or answer (query), by prompt text, and by engine.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__howseen__list_brands",
      "mcp__howseen__get_visibility",
      "mcp__howseen__list_prompts",
      "mcp__howseen__get_competitors",
      "mcp__howseen__get_top_sources",
      "mcp__howseen__search_responses",
      "mcp__howseen__get_action_plan",
      "mcp__howseen__list_articles",
      "mcp__howseen__get_prompt_gaps",
      "mcp__howseen__get_easiest_wins",
      "mcp__howseen__get_changes",
      "mcp__howseen__get_article_performance",
      "mcp__howseen__get_usage"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__howseen__suggest_prompts",
      "mcp__howseen__mark_action_done",
      "mcp__howseen__dismiss_action",
      "mcp__howseen__add_prompts",
      "mcp__howseen__add_competitor",
      "mcp__howseen__draft_article",
      "mcp__howseen__refresh_article",
      "mcp__howseen__create_share_report",
      "mcp__howseen__run_scan",
      "mcp__howseen__request_indexing",
      "mcp__howseen__restore_article"
    ],
    "deny": [
      "mcp__howseen__remove_prompts",
      "mcp__howseen__archive_prompts",
      "mcp__howseen__remove_competitor",
      "mcp__howseen__publish_article",
      "mcp__howseen__delete_article"
    ]
  }
}
```