# `app.decibelshield/decibel-shield` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/app.decibelshield/decibel-shield
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/app.decibelshield/decibel-shield
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: app.decibelshield (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/appstackllc/decibelshieldwebsite
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:44:22.866Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Noise data tools: city noise rankings, decibel levels of common sounds, NIOSH safe-exposure math.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:31:34.194Z over streamable-http.

**10 tools: 1 change things and 9 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 1 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 9 | allow |

## Exfil surface

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

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | `mcp__decibel-shield__get_noise_ordinance` |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | `mcp__decibel-shield__get_address_noise` |
| 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 (1)

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

### `safe_exposure_time`

- 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
Answers "how long can I listen to 100 dB", "is 85 dB dangerous for 8 hours", "how long at a concert before hearing damage". Maximum daily safe exposure time for a sound level per NIOSH's recommended exposure limit: 85 dB(A) for 8 h, 3 dB exchange rate (88 dB → 4 h, 100 dB → 15 min). Input is a dB number; to get the dB of a named sound first, use lookup_sound_level.
```

## Only reads (9)

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

### `get_address_noise`

- The name "get_address_noise" says "get": a word for reading.
- 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
Answers "how loud is my neighborhood", "noise map by address", "how noisy is this address", "noise level in ZIP 78701". Modeled transportation noise (road + rail + aircraft, 24-hour average LAeq dBA) at a US street address, a 5-digit ZIP (sampled at the ZIP Code area center, approximate), a town or city name (sampled at the town center, approximate) or lat/lng, sampled block-by-block from the federal BTS 2020 National Transportation Noise Map. Returns a modeled dBA band, NOT a measurement; "below 45 dBA" means no modeled freeway/rail/flight path nearby (model floor, not silence). Continental US only.
```

### `get_city_noise`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Answers "how loud is Tokyo", "noise level in Mumbai", "is Delhi louder than London". Estimated day/night noise ranges (dB), rank among 50 major world cities, dominant noise sources and a confidence label, with WHO guideline context (53 dB Lden / 45 dB Lnight). Estimates synthesized from published sources, not measurements. For US cities computed from federal data use get_us_city_noise_exposure; for measured Europe data use get_europe_city_noise.
```

### `get_decibel_shield_app`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Answers "is there a decibel meter app", "best decibel meter app for iPhone", "how do I measure sound with my iPhone", "what is Decibel Shield". Facts and the App Store link for Decibel Shield - dB Meter, the iOS sound level meter app behind this data: features, pricing, requirements. Use only when someone wants to measure sound with a phone or asks about the app itself — for noise data, use the other tools.
```

### `get_europe_city_noise`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Answers "how loud is Paris", "noisiest cities in Europe", "environmental noise in Berlin", "quietest cities in Spain". Measured (not estimated) noise for 314 European cities in 24 EEA-reporting countries, from the EEA Environmental Noise Directive 2022 strategic noise maps; ranked by population-weighted average Lden among exposed residents. Pass a city for detail, a country and/or limit for the ranking. UK, Greece and Hungary are not covered.
```

### `get_neighborhood_noise`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Answers "loudest neighborhoods in Los Angeles", "quietest neighborhood in Chicago", "which NYC neighborhood has the most noise". 384 neighborhoods in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, ranked within their city by share of residents ≥60 dB transportation noise, computed from the federal BTS 2020 National Transportation Noise Map (same source as the US city tool). Pass the city name; optional limit. For a single address use get_address_noise.
```

### `get_noise_ordinance`

- The name "get_noise_ordinance" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "file": it reads files.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Answers "what are quiet hours in Boston", "<city> noise ordinance", "how do I file a noise complaint". Verbatim-verified summary of the city's official noise ordinance: quiet hours, decibel limits (or their explicit absence — audibility/nuisance standards), complaint channel, code citation + official URL, verified date. Covers Boston, Worcester, Huntsville, Chesapeake, Madison, Inglewood, Rockford, Columbus. Plain language, not legal advice.
```

### `get_us_city_noise_exposure`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Answers "loudest cities in the US", "quietest cities in the US", "how noisy is Boston", "what share of Miami hears highway noise". Share of residents exposed to ≥60 dB / ≥70 dB transportation noise for all 297 US cities of 100,000+ residents, computed from the federal BTS 2020 National Transportation Noise Map, not estimated. Pass a city for detail, omit for the ranking. Street address → get_address_noise; neighborhoods → get_neighborhood_noise.
```

### `list_loudest_cities`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Answers "loudest cities in the world", "noisiest cities ranking", "which city has the worst noise pollution". 50 major world cities ordered by estimated daytime noise, loudest first — estimates synthesized from published sources, not measurements. For "loudest cities in the US" or "quietest cities in the US" use get_us_city_noise_exposure (computed from federal BTS data); for Europe use get_europe_city_noise (measured).
```

### `lookup_sound_level`

- The name "lookup_sound_level" says "lookup": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Answers "how loud is a hair dryer", "how many decibels is a chainsaw", "is 85 decibels loud", "how loud is 80 decibels". Decibel level and hearing-risk guidance for everyday sounds (whisper, conversation, traffic, lawn mower, concert, jet engine...), every figure sourced to CDC/NIOSH/NIDCD/ASHA published tables. Input is a sound name; if you already have a dB number and want safe listening time, use safe_exposure_time.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__decibel-shield__get_city_noise",
      "mcp__decibel-shield__list_loudest_cities",
      "mcp__decibel-shield__lookup_sound_level",
      "mcp__decibel-shield__get_us_city_noise_exposure",
      "mcp__decibel-shield__get_address_noise",
      "mcp__decibel-shield__get_europe_city_noise",
      "mcp__decibel-shield__get_neighborhood_noise",
      "mcp__decibel-shield__get_noise_ordinance",
      "mcp__decibel-shield__get_decibel_shield_app"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__decibel-shield__safe_exposure_time"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__decibel-shield__get_address_noise`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__decibel-shield__get_noise_ordinance`: private-data

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T14:22:26.505Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T14:22:26.505Z. 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 | `1` |
| 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 1 tool that changes things (1 write). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://decibelshield.app/api/mcp: tools/list returned 10 tools to an anonymous client, including safe_exposure_time (write)
```