# `ai.optionscanner/optionscanner` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/ai.optionscanner/optionscanner
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/ai.optionscanner/optionscanner
- Version: 4.1.3 (active)
- Publisher: ai.optionscanner (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:42:50.553Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Optionscanner
Free options calculators and the Optionscanner Learn library for any AI assistant. No account.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:41:09.196Z over streamable-http.

**10 tools: 7 change things and 3 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 7 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 3 | allow |

## Exfil surface

No private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound path in this server alone: no tool is tagged private-data or untrusted-input or outbound.

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | none |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | none |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `expected_move` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "expected_move" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "expected_move" says "move": a word for a change.
```

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `debit_spread` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "debit_spread" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The description's first verb is "call": a word for a change.
```


## Changes things (7)

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

### `credit_spread`

- 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
Bull put or bear call credit spread figures: width, maximum profit and loss, breakeven, return on risk, credit-to-width, and the model's chance of profit when implied volatility and days are given.
```

### `debit_spread`

- The description's first verb is "call": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Call or put debit spread figures: width, maximum profit and loss, breakeven, reward to risk, debit-to-width, and the model's chance of profit when implied volatility and days are given.
```

### `expected_move`

- The name "expected_move" says "move": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The one and two standard deviation price ranges the options market is pricing for a stock over a horizon, from the stock price, implied volatility and days ahead.
```

### `position_size`

- 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
How many contracts fit a risk budget: account equity, the percent of it risked per trade, and the worst case per contract give the dollar budget, the contract count and the share of equity at risk.
```

### `probability_of_profit`

- 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
The model probability that a stock finishes above or below a price level (a breakeven or a short strike) by a date, from implied volatility, under the lognormal the options market implies.
```

### `profit_calculator`

- 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
Price any options trade with up to eight legs: maximum profit and loss, breakevens, net credit or debit, the model's chance of profit at expiration and the expected move. Pass a strategy name (for example iron_condor or bull_put_spread) to build standard legs from the stock price, or pass the legs yourself with strikes and prices. Ask it for the max loss on a spread, the breakeven on a straddle, or the chance a condor finishes profitable. Returns a link that opens the same trade in the Optionscanner calculator.
```

### `what_if`

- 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
What a trade is worth if the stock moves, time passes or implied volatility changes: profit or loss on a chosen date at a chosen stock price, the same at expiration, and the change for one more day, one more volatility point and a one dollar move. Use it for questions like what happens to my condor if the stock drops ten percent next week.
```

## Only reads (3)

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

### `learn_read`

- The name "learn_read" says "read": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The full text of one Learn article, glossary term, calculator page or research page by slug, as Markdown with its link. Use learn_search first when the slug is unknown.
```

### `learn_search`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find the Learn article, glossary term, calculator or research page that answers an options question: strategies, the greeks, implied volatility, IV rank, probability of profit, rolling, assignment, the wheel, screening rules and more. Returns titles, summaries and links.
```

### `list_strategies`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The eleven standard structures the calculator knows (long call and put, covered call, cash-secured put, the four vertical spreads, iron condor, straddle, strangle), each built on an example stock price with its legs, maximum profit and loss, breakevens and chance of profit, with a link to open each one.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__optionscanner__list_strategies",
      "mcp__optionscanner__learn_search",
      "mcp__optionscanner__learn_read"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__optionscanner__profit_calculator",
      "mcp__optionscanner__what_if",
      "mcp__optionscanner__expected_move",
      "mcp__optionscanner__credit_spread",
      "mcp__optionscanner__debit_spread",
      "mcp__optionscanner__probability_of_profit",
      "mcp__optionscanner__position_size"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T14:20:44.007Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T14:20:44.007Z. No credentials were sent and no tool was called. Values are shown as the endpoint returned them. Method: https://anlyon.dev/methodology#remote-posture

| Fact | Observed |
| --- | --- |
| Reachable | `yes` |
| HTTP status of an anonymous initialize | `200` |
| tools/list served without credentials | `yes` |
| Tools that change things, listed without credentials | `7` |
| Protocol version | `2025-06-18` |
| WWW-Authenticate on 401 | `not observed` |
| resource_metadata in WWW-Authenticate | `none` |
| RFC 9728 protected resource metadata | `none` |
| Authorization servers | `none` |
| Legacy HTTP+SSE transport | `no` |
| Dynamic client registration | `not observed` |
| Client ID metadata documents | `not observed` |

- **warn** Tools that change things, listed to anyone ([unauth-remote-writes](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#unauth-remote-writes))

```untrusted-server-text
The endpoint served tools/list without credentials, and the list has 7 tools that change things (7 write). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://optionscanner.ai/mcp: tools/list returned 10 tools to an anonymous client, including profit_calculator (write), what_if (write), expected_move (write), credit_spread (write), debit_spread (write) and 2 more
```