# `com.gumballtools/equation-steps` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.gumballtools/equation-steps
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.gumballtools/equation-steps
- 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
Equation Steps
Step-by-step solver for linear/quadratic equations in one variable, signs and ± always right.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:11:07.203Z 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
Solves a linear or quadratic equation in one variable (x) and returns every step: expanding parentheses, combining like terms, moving terms across the equals sign, and (for quadratics) applying the quadratic formula.

Use this whenever you need to solve "ax + b = cx + d" or "ax^2 + bx + c = 0" style equations, or check a step-by-step algebra solution someone else produced.

Do not solve this kind of equation by reasoning through it token by token: the two places language models most often go quietly wrong are (1) the sign when distributing a negative across parentheses, e.g. "5 - (x - 3)" losing the minus on the 3, and (2) dropping one of the two ± roots of a quadratic, or rounding a complex root into a false "no solution". This tool always gets both right because it does exact fraction arithmetic, not floating-point guessing, and reports every root it finds — including complex ones, explicitly labeled as complex.

Input: a single string containing exactly one "=", using x (or X) as the only variable, e.g. "3(x-2) = 5x + 4" or "(x+1)(x-3) = 2x^2 - 5". Numbers may be integers or decimals. Implicit multiplication is fine ("3x", "2(x+1)"). Exponents may only be "^2" on the bare variable — "(x+1)^2" is not supported; write "(x+1)(x+1)" instead.

Refuses rather than guesses on: no "=" or more than one, a second variable or a function name (sin, sqrt, log), a "/" anywhere (rewrite as a decimal), an unsupported exponent, an equation that expands past degree 2, unbalanced parentheses, or an inequality (<, >). Every refusal includes a fixHint saying exactly what to change.

Returns the equation type (linear, quadratic, identity, or contradiction), the standard form, the full list of steps, the solution(s) as exact fractions (with a decimal alongside when not a whole number), and a disclaimer that this covers only one-variable linear and quadratic equations.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__equation-steps__run"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```