# `com.runriva.quizbase/mcp` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.runriva.quizbase/mcp
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.runriva.quizbase/mcp
- Version: 0.1.1 (active)
- Publisher: com.runriva.quizbase (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:02:08.219Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
QuizBase
MCP server for trivia: 1.4M+ questions (EN+PL), 24 categories, 12 tools + 4 prompts, OAuth 2.1.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:54:47.469Z over streamable-http.

**12 tools: 6 change things and 6 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 6 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 6 | allow |

## Findings

- **info** Long descriptions in `quizbase_random` ([long-description](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#long-description))

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 2,747 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "...ality='all' for audit); using tags when a curated topic exists (worse precision)."
```

- **info** Long descriptions in `quizbase_list` ([long-description](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#long-description))

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 2,937 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "...lls (you'll re-read page 1); polling without updated_since when doing delta sync."
```


## Changes things (6)

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

### `quizbase_regions`

- 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
Discover region codes used by the catalog. **Cultural affinity** — a question is tagged with a region if residents of that country, or members of that cultural/religious group, are statistically more likely to know the answer (NOT geography of the subject). USE WHEN: planning a quiz targeting users from a specific country or cultural background, exploring "what regions are represented". OUTPUT: array of {code, kind, label, count} sorted by count DESC. INPUTS: lang (en|pl), q (substring on code/label), kind (country|cultural), cursor, limit (max 500). Pair with quizbase_random or quizbase_list using `regions:[...]` to fetch matching questions.
```

### `quizbase_report`

- The description's first verb is "submit": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Submit a content correction, copyright concern, or factual error report. USE WHEN: user (via your interface) flags a wrong answer, broken translation, attribution issue, or DMCA concern. INPUTS: at least one of (questionId UUID, questionText, questionUrl), type (translation|factual|inappropriate|attribution|other), comment (optional, max 2000), reporterEmail (optional). OUTPUT on success: {ok:true, reportId}. On failure the result is marked isError:true with structuredContent {error, message} — error codes: invalid_input, not_found, rate_limit_exceeded (per-IP 5/min), internal_error.
```

### `quizbase_stats`

- 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
Public catalog counters with live breakdowns by language, source, category, difficulty, topic, tag.

USE WHEN: showing catalog overview, picking a category programmatically, building landing copy, deciding "do we have enough X-content for this quiz".

OUTPUT FIELDS:
- total: approved questions in 'en' + 'pl'.
- byLanguage: { en: N, pl: N }.
- bySource: { entityq: N, mintaka: N, 'kqa-pro': N, ... } — 12 keys, one per source database.
- byDifficulty: { trivial: N, easy: N, medium: N, hard: N, expert: N, unrated: N } — null difficulty mapped to 'unrated'. trivial/expert populated by LLM calibration.
- byCategory: top 24 with localized names.
- byTopic / byTag: top 30 curated topics + top 30 tags with localized labels.
- meta: { generatedAt: ISO 8601, language }.

INPUTS: lang (default "en") affects byCategory[].name and byTopic[].label / byTag[].label.

DATA FRESHNESS: snapshot regenerated daily (~03:00 UTC) + on demand after batch imports. generatedAt shows when. Counts stable ±0.01% between snapshots.

COMMON MISTAKES: polling stats every request (cache it on your side; 5-min Redis TTL on ours); treating bySource keys as stable enum (use quizbase_languages / quizbase_categories for canonical input enums).
```

### `quizbase_subcategories`

- 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
Raw subcategory dump (LLM-organic kebab-case, middle taxonomy layer between category and tags) with display label and count. USE WHEN: navigating between top-level category and individual tags, exploring topic structure. Filter questions via quizbase_random?subcategory=<slug>. INPUTS: q, cursor, limit (max 500).
```

### `quizbase_tags`

- 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
Raw tag dump (10k+ entries) with display label and question count. USE WHEN: building a tag picker, searching "is X a tag", running analytics. Curated higher-level groupings → quizbase_topics. INPUTS: q (substring), cursor, limit (max 500).
```

### `quizbase_topics`

- 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
Discover curated topics (2,184 entries with aliases). USE WHEN: planning a multi-round quiz, exploring "what is available about X", showing topic browser. Sorted by count DESC, slug ASC. Cursor-paginated. INPUTS: q (substring on label/alias), kind (tag|subcategory), cursor, limit (max 500).
```

## Only reads (6)

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

### `quizbase_categories`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List of 24 top-level categories with i18n labels. USE WHEN: building a category picker, validating ?category= input. Stable enum (rarely changes). For higher-resolution browsing → quizbase_subcategories or quizbase_topics.
```

### `quizbase_languages`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Returns supported language whitelist (ISO 639-1) with question counts per language. USE WHEN: showing language picker, validating ?lang= input, deciding fallback. Day 1: en + pl.
```

### `quizbase_list`

- The name "quizbase_list" says "list": a word for reading.
- Findings: info long-description

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Cursor-paginated browse over the catalog. Quality-first: by default excludes questions flagged for review (use quality='all' for full pool).

USE WHEN: full catalog sync, delta sync (updated_since), exhaustive enumeration by filter. NOT WHEN: you only need N random samples (use quizbase_random) or a single record (use quizbase_question_by_id).

PAGINATION: stable cursor over id UUIDv7 DESC. First call: omit cursor. Next: pass meta.nextCursor. Stop when nextCursor is null.

KEY FILTERS (full parity with REST):
- lang: ISO 639-1, default "en". Supported: en, pl.
- category (slug), difficulty (trivial|easy|medium|hard|expert — LLM-calibrated), type (multiple|boolean), subcategory (raw slug).
- tags (AND), tags_any (OR, max 10): raw tag slugs.
- topic (curated, alias resolver), topics_any (OR over curated): higher precision than tags.
- regions (cultural affinity, AND): empty = no cultural advantage assumed. Lowercase ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ('us', 'pl', 'gb') + cultural codes ('jewish', 'christian-catholic', 'islam'). Filter for content statistically more likely known by residents/members. Discover via quizbase_regions.
- source (array): include only these of 12 (opentdb, opentriviaqa, kqa-pro, entityq, mintaka, mkqa, nq-open, creak, qasc, arc, webq, quizbase).
- exclude_source (array): drop these sources, e.g. ["entityq"]. Applied after source.
- license (SPDX): e.g. CC-BY-SA-4.0, MIT.
- quality: 'high' (default) = cleanest, most broadly-useful. 'standard' = broader pool incl. niche/too-specific. 'all' = full pool incl. flagged; when 'all', each question gains a "quality" field ('high' or 'needs_review').
- updated_since (ISO 8601): only questions updated after this — for delta sync caches.

BATCH + TRANSLATION MAPPING:
- ids (up to 250): fetch those exact records in one call (anti-repeat, deep-links, restoring a saved set). Terminal selector — browse filters and cursor are ignored. Missing ids → meta.missing.
- content_language (en|pl): with ids, returns each question's sibling in that CONTENT language across the translation chain — the same questions in another language. Distinct from lang (labels only).

PAGINATION + COUNTING:
- cursor (string): from previous meta.nextCursor. Omit for page 1.
- limit (1-100, default 20).
- count: none (default, skip — page via nextCursor) | exact (precise COUNT(*), index-only ~25-90ms).

OUTPUT: { questions: [...], meta: { count, countMode, language, nextCursor, total? } }. Each question carries full per-record attribution (source, author, license, licenseVersion, licenseUrl, sourceId, url, modifications, lastModified) — identical shape to REST /api/v1/questions.

ATTRIBUTION REQUIRED if you redistribute. Credit each question using its own attribution object — see license + licenseUrl + modifications fields per record.

COMMON MISTAKES: not passing the cursor on subsequent calls (you'll re-read page 1); polling without updated_since when doing delta sync.
```

### `quizbase_question_by_id`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch one question with FULL per-record attribution (source, author, license, modifications, lastModified, sourceId, url) and `quality: "high" | "needs_review"` (always present — deep-link semantic means full row). USE WHEN: deep link to a question, full provenance lookup for redistribution, cache refresh, moderation inspection. INPUTS: id (UUID), lang (affects category.name and label translations only). 404 returned via {question: null, error: "not_found"} — id may be invalid, pending/rejected, canonical-duplicate, or tombstoned.
```

### `quizbase_random`

- The description's first verb is "fetch": a word for reading.
- Findings: info long-description

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch N random trivia questions matching filters. Quality-first: by default excludes questions flagged for review (use quality='all' to include for audit/research).

USE WHEN: building a quiz, sampling content for warmup, generating practice sets. NOT WHEN: you need a specific question ID (use quizbase_question_by_id) or want to explore a topic deeply with facets (use quizbase_topic_by_slug).

KEY FILTERS:
- amount: 1-50, default 10.
- lang: ISO 639-1. Default "en". Supported: en, pl. Strict — unknown language returns 400.
- category (slug): e.g. geography, history, science-and-nature. Full list via quizbase_categories.
- difficulty: trivial | easy | medium | hard | expert. LLM-calibrated. Records not yet LLM-rated hold the importer placeholder (mostly "medium" for factoid sources).
- type: multiple | boolean (default both; no text_input in random).
- regions (cultural affinity, AND): empty in data = no cultural advantage assumed. Lowercase ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ('us', 'pl', 'gb') + cultural codes ('jewish', 'christian-catholic', 'islam'). Filter for content statistically more likely known by residents/members. Discover via quizbase_regions.
- source (array): include only these source databases (one or more of 12: opentdb, opentriviaqa, kqa-pro, entityq, mintaka, mkqa, nq-open, creak, qasc, arc, webq, quizbase).
- exclude_source (array): drop these sources, e.g. ["entityq"] for human-curated only. Applied after source.
- license (SPDX): CC-BY-SA-4.0 | CC-BY-SA-3.0 | MIT | etc. Restrict to redistribution-friendly content.
- topic (curated slug): higher precision than tags. Alias resolver matches subcategories+tags. List via quizbase_topics.
- topics_any: OR over curated topics, max 10.
- tags (AND), tags_any (OR), subcategory: raw taxonomy. Use topic if available.
- quality: 'high' (default, recommended) = cleanest, most broadly-useful. 'standard' = broader pool incl. niche/too-specific (more volume). 'all' = audit/research, includes flagged — when 'all', each question gains a "quality" field ('high' or 'needs_review').
- exclude (UUIDs, max 250): de-dupe within a quiz session.

OUTPUT: { questions: [...], meta: { count, language } }. Each question carries full per-record attribution (source, author, license, licenseVersion, licenseUrl, sourceId, url, modifications, lastModified) — identical shape to REST /api/v1/questions/random.

ATTRIBUTION REQUIRED if you redistribute. CC-BY-SA modifications must be credited per § 3(a)(1)(B) using each question's own attribution object.

COMMON MISTAKES: forcing lang='pl' for a global audience (use 'en' default); skipping quality (default already excludes flagged content — only pass quality='all' for audit); using tags when a curated topic exists (worse precision).
```

### `quizbase_topic_by_slug`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch one curated topic with facets (byCategory, byDifficulty, byLanguage, coOccurringTags, coOccurringSubcategories) and 3 sample questions. USE WHEN: zooming into a topic, deciding multi-round quiz structure. Returns {topic: null, error: "not_found"} when slug is unknown.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__quizbase__quizbase_random",
      "mcp__quizbase__quizbase_list",
      "mcp__quizbase__quizbase_question_by_id",
      "mcp__quizbase__quizbase_topic_by_slug",
      "mcp__quizbase__quizbase_categories",
      "mcp__quizbase__quizbase_languages"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__quizbase__quizbase_stats",
      "mcp__quizbase__quizbase_topics",
      "mcp__quizbase__quizbase_tags",
      "mcp__quizbase__quizbase_subcategories",
      "mcp__quizbase__quizbase_regions",
      "mcp__quizbase__quizbase_report"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```