# `app.housefile/licensing` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/app.housefile/licensing
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/app.housefile/licensing
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: app.housefile (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:44:30.527Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
HouseFile UK property licensing checker
Checks whether a property in England is in a council's selective or HMO licensing scheme
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:42:43.513Z over streamable-http.

**4 tools: 3 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 | 3 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 1 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (3)

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

### `check_property_licensing`

- 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
Looks up a postcode in England in HouseFile’s records of council licensing schemes and returns each scheme in force there, with its dates, fee, source link and the date the records were last verified, plus the national HMO rule. Schemes not in force yet are listed under upcoming. It works to postcode precision, so near a scheme’s edge it says so. Give occupants and households to settle the mandatory HMO test in England.
```

### `licensing_coverage`

- 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
Which councils HouseFile’s records cover, with the number of published schemes for each and when they were last verified. Use it to tell the user honestly whether their area is covered.
```

### `upcoming_licensing_changes`

- 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’s coming: schemes proposed or starting soon, and recent changes to schemes in HouseFile’s records (started, ended, fee or area changed), newest first. Optionally for one council, and for a number of months ahead and back (6 by default, at most 24).
```

## Only reads (1)

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

### `list_council_schemes`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Lists a council’s licensing schemes from HouseFile’s records: in force, starting soon, proposed, and ended in the last 12 months, each with its area, dates, fee, source link and last verified date. Takes a council name, part of a name or a GSS code. If several councils match, it returns them to choose from.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__licensing__list_council_schemes"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__licensing__check_property_licensing",
      "mcp__licensing__upcoming_licensing_changes",
      "mcp__licensing__licensing_coverage"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```