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Hydrata - ANUGA Flood Simulation

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Run ANUGA flood simulations, track progress, and retrieve results on Hydrata Cloud.

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28 tools: 2 can delete or cancel things, 1 do something that can't be undone, 14 change things and 11 only read.

Scanned Oct 21, 2026

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28 tools

Deletes or cancels 2Claude Code: deny
  • cancel_runCancel an in-flight simulation run.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "cancel_run" says "cancel": a word for removing or ending something.
    • The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Cancel an in-flight simulation run. Works on runs in built, queued, or computing status. Cleans up compute resources (terminates EC2 instance, Celery task, or Batch job). Returns 409 if the run is already in a terminal state (complete, cancelled, or error).

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: true
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: false
    • title: Cancel a run
  • delete_observationDelete one flood observation and its photos (cannot be undone).No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "delete_observation" says "delete": a word for removing or ending something.
    • The description says "cannot be undone".
    • The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Delete one flood observation and its photos (cannot be undone). DELETEs /projects/<id>/flood-observations/<layer>/observations/<fid>/; a missing fid is an error (404), not a silent success.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: true
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: false
    • title: Delete one flood observation
Can't be undone 1Claude Code: ask
  • finalize_terrain_uploadStep 2 of a terrain import: register the PUT GeoTIFF as a Terrain and start the import.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "finalize_terrain_upload" says "finalize": a word for a change that another call does not undo.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Step 2 of a terrain import: register the PUT GeoTIFF as a Terrain and start the import. Call this only after the presigned PUT returned 200. Creates the Terrain row (status `creating`) and queues the import chain — reproject to UTM, publish the layer + hillshade, style — which also seeds the project's six default boundary, friction, inflow, rainfall, building and mesh-region rows. Returns 202 with the terrain record; keep its `id` for get_terrain. A 400 UPLOAD_NOT_FOUND means no object is at `staging_key`: the PUT did not land (check its status code and Content-Type) — do not retry finalize until it has.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: false
    • title: Register an uploaded terrain
Changes things 14Claude Code: ask
  • add_observationsAdd flood observations (Flood mark, Timed level, Gauge record, Dry point) to a layer.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "add_observations" says "add": a word for a change.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Add flood observations (Flood mark, Timed level, Gauge record, Dry point) to a layer. POSTs each observation to /projects/<id>/flood-observations/<layer>/observations/ in order. The API validates every field: a row it refuses (400) is listed in `rejected` with its `problems` and the rest still land; a refusal that is not about the row (403 not an Editor, 404, 409) stops the batch and is reported in `stopped`, with `not_sent_count`. Stages are on the LAYER's vertical datum. Photos are not part of an observation: attach a link with add_observation_photo_link.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: false
    • title: Add flood observations to a layer
  • attach_input_layerAttach a GeoJSON you uploaded to GeoNode as the project's boundary, friction, inflow, rainfall, building, mesh_region or culvert layer.2 findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "attach_input_layer" says "attach": a word for a change.

    Findings

    • Info

      The description mentions "credential".

      Matched text

      description: "...oad the GeoJSON yourself, with the same credential, to GeoNode's upload endpoint at the si..."

      What this check looks for
    • Info

      The description is 3,430 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

      Matched text

      description ends: "...` property — create that gauge with create_time_series under the exact same name."

      What this check looks for
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Attach a GeoJSON you uploaded to GeoNode as the project's boundary, friction, inflow, rainfall, building, mesh_region or culvert layer. The agent moves the bytes: first upload the GeoJSON yourself, with the same credential, to GeoNode's upload endpoint at the site origin: curl -sS -u <user>:<password> -F "base_file=@/path/rainfall.geojson" https://<site>/api/v2/uploads/upload/ → JSON with `execution_id`. Then call this tool with it. The tool polls GET /api/v2/resource-service/execution-status/<execution_id> (bounded by timeout_seconds; statuses ready → running → finished | failed), reads the new dataset's pk, and PATCHes it onto the project's DEFAULT row of that kind ('Boundary 01' … 'MeshRegion 01' — the six rows the terrain import seeds ~30 s after get_terrain reports ready; if the list is still empty the tool says so: run finalize_terrain_upload / wait for get_terrain first). kind `culvert` (Hydraulic Structures; one two-point line per culvert, Inlet first, then Outlet): no culvert row is seeded, so the tool creates 'Culvert 01' when the project has none and waits for its layer. It reads your culverts back and maps your attribute names onto the culvert fields — name, shape (box|circular), width_m, height_m, diameter_m, upstream_invert_m, downstream_invert_m, barrels (1-20), wall_thickness_m, entrance_type, material (concrete|corrugated_metal), manning_n, blockage_pct (Reduced-area blockage, percent), length_override_m, description — accepting common alternatives (width, diameter, label, us_invert, ds_invert, num_barrels, manning, blockage, length, shape 'pipe' = circular, …) and filling the defaults (barrels 1, wall 0.20 m, square_edge_headwall, concrete, manning_n from the material, blockage 0). Other attributes are kept. If anything changed it re-uploads the mapped culverts and attaches THAT layer (`mapped`: renamed, filled, source_dataset_pk). `culvert_problems` lists what the build will still refuse (typically missing inverts) — the user fixes those in the map. `leftover_datasets` lists the datasets the attach left unreferenced (the raw upload when it was re-uploaded; the empty factory layer of a 'Culvert 01' created here), each {dataset_pk, name, reason}, with a `leftover_hint`; the tool deletes nothing — the user may delete them. The culvert engine conveys flow through each culvert in a run (GPU lanes and localhost; the multi-core CPU lanes refuse a culvert scenario). `outcome` is exactly one of: `attached` (row_id, gn_layer, dataset_pk, dataset_alternate — the WFS typename — and every row id seen); `timed_out` (still importing or still creating the culvert layer: call again with the same arguments, except pass `retry_execution_id` as execution_id when the result carries one); `upload_failed` (the execution record, incl. its log, is returned verbatim — fix the file and upload again); `no_default_row`; `no_dataset` (finished but no resource was recorded). The PATCH is refused with a 400 if the dataset is not owned by you. Refused, with no request made: kind `breakline` — no REST create path exists for it at HEAD (TASK-3040 AC6), so attaching one would only pretend. Also refused without a request: an execution_id that is not the UUID the upload returned. One GeoJSON per kind: all of a kind's features travel in that one file. A rainfall polygon names its gauge in its `data` property — create that gauge with create_time_series under the exact same name.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: false
    • title: Attach an uploaded layer as a project input
  • build_scenarioBuild a scenario's package (mesh + inputs) after showing what it will cost, and poll until built.1 finding

    Why it is in this group

    • Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.

    Findings

    • Info

      The description is 3,193 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

      Matched text

      description ends: "...ld answer 422 MESH_REGION_UNITS_UNMARKED, naming the conversion an operator runs."

      What this check looks for
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Build a scenario's package (mesh + inputs) after showing what it will cost, and poll until built. Order of operations, so the number is shown before anything is spent: 1. GET the scenario detail. A record with no `boundary`/`computed_status` keys is a non-member's read of a public project → refused: a build needs the EDITOR role. 2. Re-call checks on `latest_run` (a re-POST is NOT deduplicated after `built`/`complete` — it would dispatch a duplicate build): no run → proceed; run `created`/`building` → resume polling, no POST; run `built`/`queued`/`computing`/`processing`/`complete` with `latest_run_is_valid` not false → return that state, no POST unless rebuild=true; run `error`/`cancelled`, or `latest_run_is_valid` false (the scenario was edited since the build) → proceed. 3. Spend gates, each a refusal with `outcome: "refused"` and no POST: the scenario has no boundary or its boundary row has no features (the server would admit the build and fail it in make_package); the estimate is None (resolution is 0/unset); the estimate is above 100,000 triangles and confirm is not true — the refusal states the number; re-call with confirm=true to proceed. An estimate of 0 over a boundary WITH features is buildable and is reported, not refused. 4. POST /projects/<id>/scenarios/<pk>/build/. Every 4xx comes back verbatim as a normal result with `http_status`: 422 MESH_TOO_LARGE (`error_code`, `estimate`, `ceiling`, `detail` — the server's hard ceiling; coarsen `resolution` or shrink the boundary; no run was created), 409 COMPUTE_TARGET_UNAVAILABLE, 400/403/404. A 409 WITHOUT an error_code is the dedup body ({status, run_id, detail}: a build is already in flight) — the tool resumes polling that run. 5. On 202 poll the detail's `computed_status` (created → building → built | error), bounded by timeout_seconds. Returns a COMPACT state, never the whole detail: `outcome` (built, error, cancelled, complete/queued/computing/processing for a run past the build, timed_out, or refused), `computed_status`, `mesh_triangle_count_estimate`, `posted`, the POST's `build` body + `http_status` when one was made, and the latest run's `run_id`, `run_status`, `error_message`, `user_message`, `mesh_triangle_count`. `timed_out` is normal (make_package re-downloads the terrain from S3 every build; minutes): call again with the same arguments — step 2 resumes polling the same run, it never POSTs twice — or cancel_run(run_id) if the run is stuck in `created` with no worker. `error` is terminal: `error_message` says why (fix the inputs, then call again — an errored latest run is rebuilt). Units: `resolution` — on the SCENARIO and on every MeshRegion FEATURE — is a LENGTH in metres; ANUGA maximum_triangle_area = resolution²/2 (FloatField default 100, not nullable; 0 makes the estimate None), and the estimate prices both the same way (TASK-3186). The smallest value becomes the raster cell size. A MeshRegion feature must carry `resolution_units = m` (features drawn in the map are marked automatically); an unmarked one makes the build answer 422 MESH_REGION_UNITS_UNMARKED, naming the conversion an operator runs.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: false
    • title: Build a scenario's mesh and package
  • create_observation_layerCreate a flood observation layer in a project and wait for its map layer.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "create_observation_layer" says "create": a word for a change.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Create a flood observation layer in a project and wait for its map layer. A flood observation layer holds real flood evidence (Flood marks, Timed levels, Gauge records, Dry points) that every historic run is compared with (Compare with observations). It is project-level: it is never a scenario input. POSTs /projects/<id>/flood-observations/, then polls the layer until its GeoServer layer exists (`ready`), usually a few seconds; until then add_observations refuses. On `timed_out`, call list_observations later.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: false
    • title: Create a flood observation layer
  • create_projectCreate a new ANUGA project.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "create_project" says "create": a word for a change.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Create a new ANUGA project. Returns the project record including its id, base_map and ui_url. The caller's own account becomes the owner. `projection` is the projected CRS every scenario in the project is meshed and run in — pick the UTM zone covering the site. The project's map is created alongside it; `ui_url` opens it — give it to the user. Next step for a new project: presign_terrain_upload.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: false
    • title: Create a project
  • create_scenarioCreate a DRAFT scenario (no build, no run) and report its mesh-triangle estimate.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "create_scenario" says "create": a word for a change.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Create a DRAFT scenario (no build, no run) and report its mesh-triangle estimate. POSTs /projects/<id>/scenarios/ with the write fields, then GETs the scenario detail — the create response carries NO estimate; the detail's `mesh_triangle_count_estimate` (+ `_breakdown`) does. Returns a compact record (the same fields get_scenario answers with): id, name, the FK ids as stored, resolution, duration, `computed_status` (`created` = no run yet), the estimate and its breakdown, the price (`compute_cost_estimate` in USD, `vcpu_hours_estimate`), `inflow_anchor_mismatch`, and http_status. Next step: build_scenario (which asks for confirm=true above 100,000 triangles). Nothing is meshed or queued here. Units: `resolution` — on the SCENARIO and on every MeshRegion FEATURE — is a LENGTH in metres; ANUGA maximum_triangle_area = resolution²/2 (FloatField default 100, not nullable; 0 makes the estimate None), and the estimate prices both the same way (TASK-3186). The smallest value becomes the raster cell size. A MeshRegion feature must carry `resolution_units = m` (features drawn in the map are marked automatically); an unmarked one makes the build answer 422 MESH_REGION_UNITS_UNMARKED, naming the conversion an operator runs. The server does NOT validate that the FK ids belong to `project_id` — pass the row ids attach_input_layer / get_terrain returned for THIS project. Every FK is nullable at create time, and the build fails later on a scenario with no terrain, or with neither an inflow nor a rainfall. A `boundary` whose row has no features (the default 'Boundary 01' before attach_input_layer) is accepted here and refused by build_scenario. The estimate is None when resolution is 0; an estimate of 0 with a real boundary is a very coarse mesh, not an error.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: false
    • title: Create a draft scenario
  • create_time_seriesCreate a time series (rain gauge, hydrograph, tide/stage) in a project.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "create_time_series" says "create": a word for a change.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Create a time series (rain gauge, hydrograph, tide/stage) in a project. POSTs /projects/<id>/time-series/ with `series_type` and `units` as top-level fields. `series_type` is checked against the four choices and `data` against the {"rowData": [{timestamp, value}, ...]} shape before any request is made — the API answers 500 (not 400) to a malformed row. Returns a compact record — id, name, series_type, units, timezone, row_count, http_status — not the echoed rows; fetch the full row with the REST API (GET /projects/<id>/time-series/<id>/) if you need to round-trip it. A rainfall polygon references its gauge by the series NAME, so create the gauges with the exact names the rainfall GeoJSON's features carry.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: false
    • title: Create a time series
  • presign_terrain_uploadStep 1 of a terrain import: get a presigned S3 PUT URL for a GeoTIFF DEM.1 finding

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "presign_terrain_upload" says "upload": a word for a change.

    Findings

    • Info

      The description mentions "credential".

      Matched text

      description: "...: multipart-POST the file with the same credential to /api/v2/anuga/projects/<id>/terrain/..."

      What this check looks for
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Step 1 of a terrain import: get a presigned S3 PUT URL for a GeoTIFF DEM. The agent moves the bytes itself — no tool accepts file contents. After this call, PUT the file straight to `upload_url`, sending the SAME Content-Type you passed here (it is part of the signature; a mismatch is a 403 SignatureDoesNotMatch before it is anything else): curl -sS -X PUT -H "Content-Type: image/tiff" --upload-file /path/dem.tif "$UPLOAD_URL" then call finalize_terrain_upload with the returned staging_key and process_id. Nothing exists in Hydrata until finalize; the URL expires after `expires_in` seconds (3600). Platform guidance: keep the terrain extent within 5° across and 40,000 km² (200 × 200 km). The API enforces that cap on its bbox-fetch path; an uploaded GeoTIFF is only rejected above 5 GiB, but a larger DEM will not mesh or run well. The GeoTIFF must carry a CRS; the import reprojects it to the site's UTM zone and builds a hillshade. Fallback when a presigned PUT is impossible: multipart-POST the file with the same credential to /api/v2/anuga/projects/<id>/terrain/upload/ (form field `file`, optional `title`), which creates the terrain in one step — then get_terrain.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: false
    • title: Get a terrain upload URL
  • retry_runRetry a failed simulation run.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "retry_run" says "run": a word for a change.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Retry a failed simulation run. Resets an errored run back to 'created' status and triggers a new package build. The same run ID is reused. Only valid when status is 'error'. Returns 409 for any other state.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: false
    • title: Retry a failed run
  • set_comparison_toleranceSave a project's default tolerance for comparing runs with flood observations.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "set_comparison_tolerance" says "set": a word for a change.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Save a project's default tolerance for comparing runs with flood observations. Needs Editor (or above). Every later get_observation_comparison (and the map's Compare with observations tab) uses it unless a tolerance is passed. Only save it when the user asks to change the project's default; to show the figures at another tolerance, pass `tolerance` to get_observation_comparison.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: false
    • title: Save a project's default comparison tolerance
  • set_observation_exclusionExclude a flood observation from ONE run's comparison with observations, or include it again.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "set_observation_exclusion" says "set": a word for a change.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Exclude a flood observation from ONE run's comparison with observations, or include it again. Needs Editor (or above) on the project. The exclusion is logged with the user and reason (nothing is overwritten) and keyed on (run, layer, fid), so it survives a recompute. The figures change at once: `headline_after` is the run's headline with the change applied. To exclude, the user must give the reason: if they have not, ASK them; do not make one up.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: false
    • title: Exclude or include a flood observation in a run's comparison
  • start_simulationStart a flood simulation run for a built scenario.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "start_simulation" says "start": a word for a change.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Start a flood simulation run for a built scenario. The scenario must be in 'built' status. Returns 202 with the new run. The run transitions through: built → queued → computing → processing → complete. After starting, poll get_run_status to track progress. Returns 409 if the scenario is not in the correct state. The returned run record has its presigned `s3_*_url` links elided (6-hour capabilities).

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: false
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: false
    • title: Start a simulation run (spends compute)
  • update_observationEdit one flood observation (PATCH; only the fields given change).No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "update_observation" says "update": a word for a change.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Edit one flood observation (PATCH; only the fields given change). The API checks the stored observation merged with `changes` and refuses (400, every bad field named) rather than store a half-valid one. Photos are not fields: attach a link with add_observation_photo_link.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: false
    • title: Edit one flood observation
Only reads 11Claude Code: allow
  • get_observation_comparisonCompare a run with the project's flood observations: how well does it match them?No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_observation_comparison" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Compare a run with the project's flood observations: how well does it match them? Returns `headline` (the figures to tell the user, e.g. "47 observations · 31 within ±0.30 m (66%) · bias -0.12 m · RMSE 0.35 m · 1 excluded"), `headline_numbers` (the same as numbers), `tolerance_m` (used) and `default_tolerance_m` (the project's saved one), `statistics` (the API's summary: n, within, within_pct, bias_m, rmse_m, weighted_rmse_m, mae_m, max_abs_m, excluded, not_scored by reason, gauges), `gauges` (Gauge records: peak error, timing error, NSE), `datum_checks` (warn the user only when `warning` is true: both datums known and different; `not_recorded` = the terrain has no recorded datum, stated in `note`, not a warning) and one row per observation: observed_m / modelled_m / residual_m (modelled - observed, + = model high), within, scored / not_scored_reason, match (`outside_run_window` = not this flood), excluded + exclusion {reason, by, at}. `sampling` counts how the modelled values were read: `centroid` (the peak of the mesh triangle the observation sits in), `nearest_node_fallback` (an older run without that peak: the nearest mesh node's value, tell the user) and `nearest_node` (just outside the mesh); each row's `sample.method` says which. There is no pass or fail: report the figures. A run that is not historic has none (`has_comparison` false) — do not retry it.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: true
    • title: Compare a run with flood observations
  • get_projectGet one ANUGA project: id, name, projection, visibility, your role, its base map — and the link to it.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_project" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Get one ANUGA project: id, name, projection, visibility, your role, its base map — and the link to it. Returns the project record (`id`, `name`, `projection` (EPSG code), `simple_view_config`, `visibility`, `owner_username`, `my_role`, `base_map`) plus `ui_url`: the link that opens the project's map, for the user (`<site>/catalogue/#/map/<base_map>`; null while a new project's map is still being created). Scenarios are NOT listed here — use get_scenario with a scenario id.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: true
    • title: Get a project and its map link
  • get_runGet full details of a simulation run including timing and results.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_run" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Get full details of a simulation run including timing and results. Returns the complete run record: status, progress, timing (start/end timestamps, duration), compute details (backend, instance type, cost), mesh info, error messages, and result log. Use get_run_status for lightweight polling; use this for final results. The presigned `s3_*_url` download links are ELIDED — each is a 6-hour capability and no tool relays one. The results stay viewable through the `gn_layer_*` entries (published WMS layers on the project's map).

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: true
    • title: Get a run's full record
  • get_run_statusLightweight status check for a simulation run (fast, <50ms).No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_run_status" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Lightweight status check for a simulation run (fast, <50ms). Use this for polling instead of get_run. Returns only: id, status, `phase`, progress_pct (0-100), eta_seconds, error_message, and compute_backend. `phase` is never empty: it is `status`, except `preparing_inputs` while a `computing` run has no progress yet (it is downloading its input package and building the domain — minutes on a big model; this is NOT a stall). Poll every 5-10 seconds. Terminal states: complete, error, cancelled.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: true
    • title: Poll a run's status
  • get_scenarioGet a scenario's COMPACT state: its `computed_status`, inputs, estimate and price.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_scenario" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Get a scenario's COMPACT state: its `computed_status`, inputs, estimate and price. Returns a compact record, never the raw ~50 KB detail: `scenario_id`, `computed_status`, `mesh_triangle_count_estimate` and its `_breakdown`, `latest_run_is_valid`, the latest run's `run_id`, `run_status`, `error_message`, `user_message`, `status_detail` and `mesh_triangle_count` — plus what the scenario IS and what it will cost: `name`, `description`, `project`, `resolution`, `duration`, the input row ids (`terrain`, `boundary`, `friction`, `inflow`, `rainfall`, `building`, `mesh_region`, `culvert`), `compute_cost_estimate` (USD), `vcpu_hours_estimate`, and `inflow_anchor_mismatch` (null unless an inflow series starts after the model does, whose first value is then held backwards). The `computed_status` field (there is NO `status` key on a scenario) is derived from the latest run and will be one of: created, building, built, queued, computing, processing, complete, error, or cancelled — `created` also means no run exists yet. A scenario must be `built` before it can be run. `latest_run_is_valid` is false after any edit since the last build. A non-member reading a public project's scenario gets a reduced record: the fields the server withholds (the input ids, the price, `inflow_anchor_mismatch`) are ABSENT here rather than reported as null — "withheld" is not "no terrain, no cost" — while the run-state keys, `computed_status` among them, read null. No presigned S3 URL is returned by any read tool (each is a 6-hour capability): results stay viewable through a run's `gn_layer_*` WMS entries — use get_run for the full run record.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: true
    • title: Get a scenario's state, inputs and price
  • get_terrainPoll a terrain's import until it is `ready` (or `error`), bounded by timeout_seconds.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_terrain" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Poll a terrain's import until it is `ready` (or `error`), bounded by timeout_seconds. Returns `outcome` — exactly one of `ready`, `error`, `timed_out`, `not_found` (the project has no terrain yet; an unknown terrain_id is an API 404 error instead) — plus the last `status` seen (creating → styling → ready | error) and `phase` (that status, or `not_found`; never empty), `polls`, `elapsed_seconds` and the full `terrain` record (its `gn_layer` is the published elevation dataset pk once ready). An import takes minutes to tens of minutes (the SAME 32 MB 1 m DEM measured 4.5 min once and 26 min once — the worker's S3 download speed dominates), so `timed_out` is normal and NOT a failure: keep calling with the same arguments while `status` is still `creating`/`styling`; several calls in a row is expected. `error` is terminal — the import failed and no default input rows were seeded; upload a corrected GeoTIFF as a new terrain. `ready` is written by the import task; the project's default input rows (Boundary 01, Friction 01, Inflow 01, Rainfall 01, Building 01, MeshRegion 01, one GeoNode layer each) are seeded by the NEXT task in the chain and appear over the following ~30 s. Poll the input-layer list until it is non-empty before attaching your own layer to a default row.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: true
    • title: Wait for a terrain import
  • list_inputsList every input layer row of a project, per kind, with whether it has features.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "list_inputs" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    List every input layer row of a project, per kind, with whether it has features. For each of boundary, friction, inflow, rainfall, building, mesh_region and culvert: the rows (`row_id`, `title`, `gn_layer` — the dataset pk — and `dataset_alternate`, the `workspace:name` WFS typename) and `has_features`. `has_features` comes from the API for boundary, rainfall, mesh_region and culvert; for friction, inflow and building (whose records do not carry it) it is a WFS feature count, at most 24 lookups per call — past that, or when a lookup fails, it is null (unknown, not false). A row with no `gn_layer` has no layer yet (`has_features` false). Use the row ids with create_scenario; this is the listing primitive — no need to probe files.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: true
    • title: List a project's input layers
  • list_observationsList a project's flood observation layers, or one layer's observations.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "list_observations" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    List a project's flood observation layers, or one layer's observations. Without layer_id: every layer (layer_id, title, dataset_alternate, vertical_datum, datum_offset_m, has_features). With layer_id: {layer, count, results} where each observation carries its `fid` (the key for update_observation / delete_observation), subtype + subtype_label, stage/depth, sigma, bound, the observed window in UTC, `datum` status (an `unknown` datum is not scored), `photo_count` and `problems` (fields drawn in the map that fail validation, reported, never fixed).

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: true
    • title: List flood observation layers or observations
  • list_projectsList ANUGA simulation projects accessible to the authenticated user.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "list_projects" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    List ANUGA simulation projects accessible to the authenticated user. Returns a paginated list of projects with their names, projections, and base map references.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: true
    • title: List projects
  • list_runsList all simulation runs across all scenarios in a project.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "list_runs" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    List all simulation runs across all scenarios in a project. Returns a paginated list of runs. Optionally filter by status to find active, completed, or failed runs. Each row's presigned `s3_*_url` download links are elided (6-hour capabilities).

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: true
    • title: List a project's runs
  • list_time_seriesList a project's time series (rain gauges, hydrographs, tides) — never their rows.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "list_time_series" says "list": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    List a project's time series (rain gauges, hydrographs, tides) — never their rows. Each series: `id`, `name` (a rainfall polygon binds to its gauge by this exact name), `series_type`, `units`, `timezone`, `row_count`, `first_timestamp` and `last_timestamp`. The data rows themselves are dropped (a project's list is megabytes); fetch one series with the REST API (GET /projects/<id>/time-series/<id>/) if you need its values.

    Annotations the server declares

    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: false
    • readOnlyHint: true
    • title: List a project's time series

This is not a safety rating, and no finding is not a safety guarantee. The groups and findings come from fixed checks of the tool definitions the server returned on the date shown, not from its code or what it does when called. How the checks work.

Install

Pinned to version 0.2.0. Values in angle brackets are yours to fill in.

claude mcp add --transport http hydrata https://hydrata.com/mcp/

Run in a terminal.

Claude Code permissions

Allow the reads, ask before a change, deny the deletes. Paste into .claude/settings.json.

.claude/settings.json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__hydrata__list_projects",
      "mcp__hydrata__get_project",
      "mcp__hydrata__get_scenario",
      "mcp__hydrata__get_run_status",
      "mcp__hydrata__get_run",
      "mcp__hydrata__list_runs",
      "mcp__hydrata__get_terrain",
      "mcp__hydrata__list_inputs",
      "mcp__hydrata__list_time_series",
      "mcp__hydrata__list_observations",
      "mcp__hydrata__get_observation_comparison"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__hydrata__start_simulation",
      "mcp__hydrata__retry_run",
      "mcp__hydrata__create_project",
      "mcp__hydrata__presign_terrain_upload",
      "mcp__hydrata__finalize_terrain_upload",
      "mcp__hydrata__create_time_series",
      "mcp__hydrata__attach_input_layer",
      "mcp__hydrata__create_observation_layer",
      "mcp__hydrata__add_observations",
      "mcp__hydrata__update_observation",
      "mcp__hydrata__add_observation_photo_link",
      "mcp__hydrata__set_observation_exclusion",
      "mcp__hydrata__set_comparison_tolerance",
      "mcp__hydrata__create_scenario",
      "mcp__hydrata__build_scenario"
    ],
    "deny": [
      "mcp__hydrata__cancel_run",
      "mcp__hydrata__delete_observation"
    ]
  }
}

Tools that only read are allowed, tools that change things ask first, tools that delete or cancel are denied. It assumes the server is installed as hydrata. Review it before you use it.