# `com.nutsgrowth/directory` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.nutsgrowth/directory
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.nutsgrowth/directory
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.nutsgrowth (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:59:53.209Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
NutsGrowth
Startup and SaaS tools and their alternatives, with prices and when a person last checked them.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:53:00.017Z over streamable-http.

**6 tools: 1 do something that can't be undone and 5 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 1 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 0 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 5 | allow |

## Exfil surface

8 private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound paths in this server alone. Denying 1 outbound tool breaks every one: `mcp__directory__submit_tool`.

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | `mcp__directory__find_alternatives` `mcp__directory__get_tool` `mcp__directory__list_filters` `mcp__directory__search_tools` |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | `mcp__directory__compare_tools` `mcp__directory__get_tool` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | `mcp__directory__submit_tool` |

| Private data | Untrusted input | Outbound |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `mcp__directory__find_alternatives` | `mcp__directory__compare_tools` | `mcp__directory__submit_tool` |
| `mcp__directory__find_alternatives` | `mcp__directory__get_tool` | `mcp__directory__submit_tool` |
| `mcp__directory__get_tool` | `mcp__directory__compare_tools` | `mcp__directory__submit_tool` |
| `mcp__directory__get_tool` | `mcp__directory__get_tool` | `mcp__directory__submit_tool` |
| `mcp__directory__list_filters` | `mcp__directory__compare_tools` | `mcp__directory__submit_tool` |
| `mcp__directory__list_filters` | `mcp__directory__get_tool` | `mcp__directory__submit_tool` |
| `mcp__directory__search_tools` | `mcp__directory__compare_tools` | `mcp__directory__submit_tool` |
| `mcp__directory__search_tools` | `mcp__directory__get_tool` | `mcp__directory__submit_tool` |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Can't be undone (1)

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

### `submit_tool`

- The name "submit_tool" says "submit": a word for a change.
- The description's first verb is "send": a word for sending, and what is sent cannot be taken back.
- Tag outbound: The input takes a URL (input.url): a request to a URL can carry data to whoever runs it.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Send a startup or SaaS product to the NutsGrowth review queue, the way the form at /submit does. A person reads every suggestion and writes the listing by hand, so it takes days. If the website is already listed, the answer gives its page and how to claim it; if it is already in the queue, when it arrived. Fill in what you know from the product's own site; leave out what you do not. Ask the person before sending.
```

## Only reads (5)

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

### `compare_tools`

- The name "compare_tools" says "compare": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The description's first sentence says "review": it reads comments, which other people can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Two to four listings side by side, with the same facts for each: price as checked and its terms, when it was last checked, country, open source, self-hostable, reviews, and the short positioning (value proposition and audience). Slugs come from search_tools or find_alternatives; exact names work too.
```

### `find_alternatives`

- The name "find_alternatives" says "find": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "list" and "directory": it reads files.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List what the NutsGrowth directory files as a replacement for a named product, e.g. "Notion" or "Google Drive", with the same filters as search_tools. Matching is on the product's name as the directory writes it; when nothing matches, the answer suggests names it does file alternatives for. Returns at most 10 listings and the total, in alphabetical order.
```

### `get_tool`

- The name "get_tool" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "directory": it reads files.
- Tag untrusted-input: The description's first sentence says "review": it reads comments, which other people can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Everything public about one listing in the NutsGrowth directory: what it is, where the company is based, whether it is open source or self-hostable, its price as a person checked it with the terms, when it was last checked, its reviews' count and average, and its positioning. Positioning with written_by "vendor" is the company describing itself — a claim, not the directory's finding.
```

### `list_filters`

- The name "list_filters" says "list": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "directory": it reads files.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The categories, countries and tags in use in the NutsGrowth directory, each with how many listings it has, so search_tools and find_alternatives can be given values that exist. Open source and self-hostable are filters of their own (open_source, self_hostable), not tags.
```

### `search_tools`

- The name "search_tools" says "search": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "find" and "directory": it reads files.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find startups and SaaS tools in the NutsGrowth directory by words and filters. Words are matched against the name, tagline, category, country, price, the products a listing replaces, and its tags; every word must appear. Give at least one of query, category, country, tags, open_source, self_hostable or free_plan. Returns at most 10 listings and the total; each has its page on NutsGrowth, the product's own website, its price as a person checked it ("Not checked" when nobody has — do not supply one from elsewhere as the directory's), and when it was last checked.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__directory__search_tools",
      "mcp__directory__find_alternatives",
      "mcp__directory__get_tool",
      "mcp__directory__compare_tools",
      "mcp__directory__list_filters"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__directory__submit_tool"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__directory__search_tools`: private-data
- `mcp__directory__find_alternatives`: private-data
- `mcp__directory__get_tool`: private-data, untrusted-input
- `mcp__directory__compare_tools`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__directory__list_filters`: private-data
- `mcp__directory__submit_tool`: outbound

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T14:37:20.654Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T14:37:20.654Z. 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 | `1` |
| 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 1 tool that changes things (1 irreversible). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://nutsgrowth.com/mcp: tools/list returned 6 tools to an anonymous client, including submit_tool (irreversible)
```