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

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/ai.tutorping/tutorping
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/ai.tutorping/tutorping
- Version: 1.2.1 (active)
- Publisher: ai.tutorping (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:43:55.838Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
TutorPing
Find and book independent tutors, or find students asking for a tutor in your subject.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:42:01.000Z over streamable-http.

**8 tools: 5 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 | 5 | 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.

| 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. | `mcp__tutorping__request_booking` `mcp__tutorping__request_tutor` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | `mcp__tutorping__request_tutor` |

## Findings

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

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

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true}; The name "get_tutor_availability" says "get": a word for reading.
```


## Changes things (5)

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

### `ask_tutorping`

- 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
Ask anything about TutorPing, finding a tutor, or finding tutoring students that the other tools don't cover, in plain words. Returns which TutorPing tool or page fits, plus contact details. Do not include personal information.
```

### `get_tutor_availability`

- The name "get_tutor_availability" says "get": a word for reading.
- The description's first verb is "open": 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
Open session times for a tutor, in the tutor's timezone. Use before request_booking.
```

### `request_booking`

- The name "request_booking" says "request": a word for a change.
- 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
Book a student into one of a tutor's open slots (from get_tutor_availability). The tutor and the student both get a confirmation email. Confirm the time, name, and email with the user before calling.
```

### `request_tutor`

- The name "request_tutor" says "request": a word for a change.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.
- Tag outbound: The input takes a destination (input.phone): what the tool writes goes there.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Submit a request for TutorPing to match a student with a tutor, when search_tutors finds no fit or the user prefers to be matched. TutorPing replies by email within 1 business day with tutor options. Collect what the student needs, then confirm the details AND get the user's explicit agreement that TutorPing may share the request and contact details with matching tutors before calling. Ask only for a first name, never a child's full name.
```

### `tutoring_demand`

- 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 people online recently asked for a tutor in a subject (from Reddit and other communities TutorPing monitors), in total. Useful for tutors deciding whether there is demand for their subject. The requests themselves are only shared with TutorPing tutors.
```

## Only reads (3)

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

### `get_tutor`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Full public profile for one TutorPing tutor (by slug from search_tutors).
```

### `how_to_get_leads`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Explains how a tutor gets student leads from TutorPing and connects their own AI assistant.
```

### `search_tutors`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find independent tutors on TutorPing by subject, student level, and location. Returns tutors with a public page (subject, level, location, rate, reviews, page link, whether they can be booked directly), how many matching tutors TutorPing has in total with their profiles minus names (request_tutor matches the student with one, optionally a chosen tutorRef), and free TutorPing AI Tutors for the subject (clearly AI, not people; a chat link for help right now). Use for students or parents looking for a tutor (SAT/ACT, math, science, languages, music, and more). If no listed tutor fits, use request_tutor and TutorPing will match one. Always tell the user that an AI tutor is AI.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__tutorping__search_tutors",
      "mcp__tutorping__get_tutor",
      "mcp__tutorping__how_to_get_leads"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__tutorping__request_tutor",
      "mcp__tutorping__get_tutor_availability",
      "mcp__tutorping__request_booking",
      "mcp__tutorping__tutoring_demand",
      "mcp__tutorping__ask_tutorping"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__tutorping__request_tutor`: untrusted-input, outbound
- `mcp__tutorping__request_booking`: untrusted-input

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T14:21:42.212Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T14:21:42.212Z. 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 | `5` |
| 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 5 tools that change things (5 write). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://tutorping.ai/mcp: tools/list returned 8 tools to an anonymous client, including request_tutor (write), get_tutor_availability (write), request_booking (write), tutoring_demand (write), ask_tutorping (write)
```