# `ai.stackrates/vps-prices` on anlyon.dev

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> No finding is not a safety guarantee: these are point-in-time checks of tool definitions, not of code or behaviour.

- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/ai.stackrates/vps-prices
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/ai.stackrates/vps-prices
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: ai.stackrates (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:43:40.029Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
StackRates VPS prices
VPS prices read daily from providers' own pricing pages and APIs: cheapest by size, place or app.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:41:45.363Z over streamable-http.

**5 tools: 4 change things and 1 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 4 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 1 | 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

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (4)

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

### `advise_vps_choice`

- 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
A messy buying question in plain words ("moving WordPress and a small Postgres app off a $40 box, I am in Germany, no yearly contract") answered from today’s prices: how the question was read (editable filter), the matching plans with their cost over the term, two to four sentences on the trade-offs written only from those rows, and what the data cannot answer. Pass the previous answer’s `filter` to continue a conversation. Every number comes from the dataset; the first line says whether a small language model or the rule parser read the question.
```

### `ask_vps_prices`

- 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
Answer a plain-language hosting price question ("cheapest 4 GB VPS in Germany under $10", "hetzner vs vultr", "server for a Minecraft Java server") from today’s prices.
```

### `current_vps_offers`

- 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
Introductory and sale prices on the providers’ own pages today, each judged on its first year against the cheapest regular plan with as much memory.
```

### `server_for_app`

- 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 documented requirements of a self-hosted app or game server (n8n, Nextcloud AIO, Immich, Minecraft Java, Odoo, GitLab, ... 192 apps) and the cheapest plans that meet them.
```

## Only reads (1)

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

### `search_vps_plans`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Cheapest VPS plans matching a size, budget, provider or location, cheapest first (one per provider unless exactly one provider is given).
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `vps-prices`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__vps-prices__search_vps_plans"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__vps-prices__ask_vps_prices",
      "mcp__vps-prices__server_for_app",
      "mcp__vps-prices__current_vps_offers",
      "mcp__vps-prices__advise_vps_choice"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T14:21:23.332Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T14:21:23.332Z. 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 | `4` |
| 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 4 tools that change things (4 write). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://stackrates.ai/mcp: tools/list returned 5 tools to an anonymous client, including ask_vps_prices (write), server_for_app (write), current_vps_offers (write), advise_vps_choice (write)
```