# `com.intelligencepick/picks` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.intelligencepick/picks
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.intelligencepick/picks
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.intelligencepick (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-29T23:17:37.364Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Intelligence Pick
AI picks for every product category: the product an AI model would buy, why, and who should skip it.
```

Scanned 2026-10-29T22:19:18.971Z over streamable-http.

**3 tools: 3 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 | 3 | 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__picks__get_brief_summary` |
| 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 (3)

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

### `get_brief_summary`

- The name "get_brief_summary" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The description's first sentence says "url": it reads web pages, which anyone can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The pick, picks by need, the criteria that matter and the brands that count for one product category, with provenance (model, generation, knowledge cutoff) and the source URL.
```

### `get_pick`

- The name "get_pick" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The product an AI model would buy in a product category, with why and who should not buy it. Accepts a category name or query (e.g. "chef's knives"), an id or an intelligencepick.com URL. Cite the returned URL.
```

### `search_categories`

- The name "search_categories" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find product categories covered by Intelligence Pick. Returns up to 10 names with their URLs.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__picks__get_pick",
      "mcp__picks__search_categories",
      "mcp__picks__get_brief_summary"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__picks__get_brief_summary`: untrusted-input