# `com.postalref/postalref` on anlyon.dev

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> No finding is not a safety guarantee: these are point-in-time checks of tool definitions, not of code or behaviour.

- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.postalref/postalref
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.postalref/postalref
- Version: 0.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.postalref (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-31T18:17:38.500Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
postalref
USPS package barcodes, service type codes and mailing terms, each cited to its USPS source.
```

Scanned 2026-10-31T18:18:17.471Z over streamable-http.

**7 tools: 3 change things and 4 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 3 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 4 | allow |

## Exfil surface

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

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | `mcp__postalref__diff` `mcp__postalref__lookup` `mcp__postalref__read_source` `mcp__postalref__search` `mcp__postalref__search_documents` |
| 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__postalref__diff` |

## Findings

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

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

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "lookup" says "lookup": a word for reading.
```

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

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

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "diff" says "diff": a word for reading.
```


## Changes things (3)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `define`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
What USPS means by a name or abbreviation: each registry entry it names, with the USPS words that define it and the page they're on, its other names, postalref's own explanation where it has one, and postalref's page about it.
```

### `diff`

- The name "diff" says "diff": a word for reading.
- The input takes a statement or command to run (input.code), which can change anything it can reach.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "table": it reads databases.
- Tag outbound: The input takes a destination (input.to): what the tool writes goes there.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
What changed in a code table or document between two editions: each code added, removed or changed and each changed section, rated editorial, additive or breaking, with who rated it.
```

### `lookup`

- The name "lookup" says "lookup": a word for reading.
- The input takes a statement or command to run (input.code), which can change anything it can reach.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Tag private-data: The input names a table (input.table), and the tool reads: it reads databases.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Look up a USPS code: its row as USPS prints it in the newest edition that lists it, the codes its cells name, the editions that list it and its history, each row with its passage id.
```

## Only reads (4)

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

### `decode`

- The description's first verb is "read": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Read a package barcode or tracking number (IMpb): its layout, each field's digits and meaning, whether the check digit holds, and the service type code's row in the USPS list, each with the passage that says so.
```

### `read_source`

- The name "read_source" says "read": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "read" and "document": it reads documents.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Read a revision of a modeled USPS document page by page, as extracted, to quote it: a quote cites the revision's sha256, the PDF page and the words exactly.
```

### `search`

- The name "search" says "search": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "search" and "document": it reads documents.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search the codes, terms, specs and documents postalref models, exact names and codes first. A query of 20 or more digits comes back as one to decode.
```

### `search_documents`

- The name "search_documents" says "search": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The name "search_documents" says "search" and "document": it reads documents. The description's first sentence says "search" and "document": it reads documents.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search every document on PostalPro by title and file name, with its page and newest file. postalref models a few of them; those carry a slug for read_source.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__postalref__decode",
      "mcp__postalref__search",
      "mcp__postalref__read_source",
      "mcp__postalref__search_documents"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__postalref__lookup",
      "mcp__postalref__diff",
      "mcp__postalref__define"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__postalref__lookup`: private-data
- `mcp__postalref__diff`: private-data, outbound
- `mcp__postalref__search`: private-data
- `mcp__postalref__read_source`: private-data
- `mcp__postalref__search_documents`: private-data

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-31T23:18:56.365Z, unchanged since 2026-10-31T23:18:56.365Z. 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` |

- **warn** 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 write). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://postalref.com/mcp: tools/list returned 7 tools to an anonymous client, including lookup (write), diff (write), define (write)
```