# `com.gumballtools/check-digit` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.gumballtools/check-digit
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.gumballtools/check-digit
- Version: 0.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.gumballtools (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/bwalvoord/gumball
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:56:17.806Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Check Digit Validator
Validates IBAN/ISBN/EAN/Luhn checksums and finds the one wrong digit
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:09:54.503Z over streamable-http.

**1 tool: 1 change things.**

| 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 | 0 | allow |

## Findings

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

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

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "run" says "run": a word for a change.
```


## Changes things (1)

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

### `run`

- The name "run" says "run": 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
Validate the check digit(s) on an IBAN, ISBN-10, ISBN-13, EAN-13, UPC-A, or Luhn-checked card number, and when it fails, try to say which digit is wrong.

Use this instead of computing the checksum yourself. Mod-97 arithmetic on a rearranged 15-34 character IBAN, or a weighted sum mod 10/11 over 10-19 digits, is exactly the kind of long deterministic calculation language models get wrong silently and confidently — there is no way for a reader to tell a fabricated "valid" from a real one without redoing the math. This tool actually redoes the math, and when the checksum fails, searches for the single adjacent-digit swap or single-character substitution that would repair it, because a transposed pair is the most common real cause of a bounced payment or a mistyped barcode.

IMPORTANT, and easy to get wrong: for ISBN-13/EAN-13/UPC-A and Luhn, the digit alphabet (0-9) almost exactly spans the checksum's modulus, so a failing check usually admits MANY equally valid single-digit substitutions — the math genuinely cannot narrow it to one digit unless the error was an adjacent transposition. When that happens, the response reports the full candidate list rather than picking one; treat that as the honest answer, not a failure to find it. IBAN (mod 97) is the exception and usually does localize to one digit.

Inputs: `input` (the number; spaces and hyphens are stripped automatically) and `format`, one of iban | isbn10 | isbn13 | ean13 | upca | luhn — required, never auto-detected, because the same digit string can be validly checked under more than one format with different results.

Refuses rather than guesses: an IBAN country code not in the ISO 13616 length registry, the wrong length for a declared format, or characters outside the format's alphabet (e.g. a letter in a card number). A passing checksum is a syntax check only — it does not confirm an IBAN names an open account, an ISBN is a real book, or a card is active or unstolen.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__check-digit__run"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```