# `com.cedargrant/federal-grants` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.cedargrant/federal-grants
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.cedargrant/federal-grants
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.cedargrant (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-23T03:17:38.920Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
CedarGrant
Open federal grants from Grants.gov, plus a kit to draft and review applications in your assistant.
```

Scanned 2026-10-23T03:17:45.891Z over streamable-http.

**2 tools: 2 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 0 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 2 | allow |

## Exfil surface

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


## Only reads (2)

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

### `find_open_grants`

- The name "find_open_grants" says "find": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Lists open federal grant notices that CedarGrant covers (posted on Grants.gov, open to organizations; not NIH, forecasted, invitation-only, scholarships or fellowships), refreshed daily, soonest deadline first. Filter by keyword (searched in title, agency and summary, for example 'museum', 'mentoring', 'wildfire'), funding category, the applicant types the notice lists, days until it closes, maximum award size and whether the notice says cost sharing is required. Returns each notice's number, agency, close date, award range as stated, and its official Simpler.Grants.gov page. Applicant types are as the notice lists them, not a judgement of eligibility.
```

### `get_drafting_kit`

- The name "get_drafting_kit" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The description's first sentence says "review": it reads comments, which other people can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Use when the user wants help with a grant application: drafting one for a federal notice on Grants.gov or Simpler.Grants.gov, drafting one from an announcement they bring themselves (state, local, foundation or other funder), or reviewing their own draft against the announcement's requirements and review criteria before they submit (a Requirements Map, and a Reviewer Panel built from the announcement's own criteria; never a score). Returns CedarGrant's drafting kit (early access, free): step-by-step instructions to check that the notice is open and covered, read the official notice and its files yourself, ask the user a few questions and write a complete draft in the notice's required format. CedarGrant does not read the documents, see the user's answers or the draft, or store anything.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__federal-grants__find_open_grants",
      "mcp__federal-grants__get_drafting_kit"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__federal-grants__get_drafting_kit`: untrusted-input