# `com.mandateshield/payment-authority` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.mandateshield/payment-authority
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.mandateshield/payment-authority
- Version: 1.13.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.mandateshield (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:58:57.280Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
MandateShield AI Payment Evidence
Analyzes delegated AI payment authority and exposes supported Stripe/x402 evidence contracts.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:51:58.839Z over streamable-http.

**3 tools: 3 do something that can't be undone.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 3 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 0 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 0 | allow |

## Exfil surface

No private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound path in this server alone: no tool is tagged private-data or untrusted-input.

| 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. | none |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | `mcp__payment-authority__check_ai_payment_authority` |

## Findings

- **info** The word "credentials" in `check_ai_payment_authority` ([credentials-mention](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#credentials-mention))

```untrusted-server-text
The description mentions "credentials".

description: "...r a production gate. Never send payment credentials or private keys."
```

- **info** The word "credentials" in `normalize_agent_payment_protocol` ([credentials-mention](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#credentials-mention))

```untrusted-server-text
The description mentions "credential".

description: "...rifies delegated authority or a payment credential and always returns enforcement_authoriz..."
```

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

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

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "normalize_agent_payment_protocol" says "payment": a word that usually means money moves, which cannot be taken back.
```


## Can't be undone (3)

Sends, pays, publishes or merges: once done, it cannot be taken back. Claude Code: ask.

### `check_ai_payment_authority`

- The name "check_ai_payment_authority" says "payment": a word that usually means money moves, which cannot be taken back.
- Tag outbound: The input takes a URL (input.http_request.url): a request to a URL can carry data to whoever runs it.
- Findings: info credentials-mention

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Use before an AI agent buys, subscribes, transfers value, calls a metered API, or accesses a paid resource when the user wants a payment-authority check. Analyze whether the proposed purchase fits supplied policy facts. This v1 entry check is non-executable and always returns enforcement_authorized=false; use the strict cryptographic tool for a production gate. Never send payment credentials or private keys.
```

### `normalize_agent_payment_protocol`

- The name "normalize_agent_payment_protocol" says "payment": a word that usually means money moves, which cannot be taken back.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: info credentials-mention, warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Use when an agent encounters an AP2 terminal closed-payment projection, x402 v2 PAYMENT-REQUIRED offer, or explicitly profiled MPP Payment challenge and needs the supported fields projected before an authority check. Map those documented fields into a deterministic MandateShield purchase envelope. X402 requires source-matched network+payTo identity and MPP requires source-matched HTTPS service-origin+method identity; merchant_id alone is insufficient. Evidence references are not independently verified. projection_fields_valid is not full protocol conformance: this tool never verifies delegated authority or a payment credential and always returns enforcement_authorized=false under assurance.
```

### `verify_cryptographic_payment_authority`

- The name "verify_cryptographic_payment_authority" says "payment": a word that usually means money moves, which cannot be taken back.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Use only for a production pre-payment authority gate after the caller has a registered mandate, pinned issuer key, fresh challenge, VERIFY-scoped key, exact final purchase and supported signed evidence. Fail closed for JWS, an AP2-shaped closed-payment SD-JWT projection with RFC 9901 KB-JWT, or normalized TAP-shaped RFC 9421-style evidence. Full AP2 checkout/delegate-chain and Visa TAP structured-field/trust-store processing remain external. A qualifying live ALLOW creates only a short RESERVED authorization and cumulative-budget allocation. This MCP tool never executes payment and exposes no processor transition: a separate trusted gateway with an audience-bound PROCESSOR key must CONSUME and freshly redeem the provider-bound permit before attempting an idempotent provider operation, then reconcile the outcome.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__payment-authority__check_ai_payment_authority",
      "mcp__payment-authority__normalize_agent_payment_protocol",
      "mcp__payment-authority__verify_cryptographic_payment_authority"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__payment-authority__check_ai_payment_authority`: outbound

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T14:35:54.549Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T14:35:54.549Z. No credentials were sent and no tool was called. Values are shown as the endpoint returned them. Method: https://anlyon.dev/methodology#remote-posture

| Fact | Observed |
| --- | --- |
| Reachable | `yes` |
| HTTP status of an anonymous initialize | `200` |
| tools/list served without credentials | `yes` |
| Tools that change things, listed without credentials | `3` |
| Protocol version | `2025-06-18` |
| WWW-Authenticate on 401 | `not observed` |
| resource_metadata in WWW-Authenticate | `none` |
| RFC 9728 protected resource metadata | `none` |
| Authorization servers | `none` |
| Legacy HTTP+SSE transport | `no` |
| Dynamic client registration | `not observed` |
| Client ID metadata documents | `not observed` |

- **high** Tools that change things, listed to anyone ([unauth-remote-writes](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#unauth-remote-writes))

```untrusted-server-text
The endpoint served tools/list without credentials, and the list has 3 tools that change things (3 irreversible). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://mandateshield.com/api/mcp: tools/list returned 3 tools to an anonymous client, including check_ai_payment_authority (irreversible), normalize_agent_payment_protocol (irreversible), verify_cryptographic_payment_authority (irreversible)
```