# `com.stackgems/catalog` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.stackgems/catalog
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.stackgems/catalog
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.stackgems (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:05:29.554Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Stack Gems
Read-only search of 900+ reviewed developer tools, each with a verdict and caveats. Free/OSS first.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:55:52.597Z over streamable-http.

**5 tools: 1 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 | 1 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 4 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (1)

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

### `best_for`

- 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
Ranked shortlist for a use case or category (e.g. "vector database", "coding agents", "auth", "mcp"), free and open source first, each with verdict and Catch. Falls back to search when no list matches.
```

## Only reads (4)

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

### `get_alternatives`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Free and open-source alternatives to a tool from the same category, with verdict and Catch. Works for any slug in the catalog.
```

### `get_gem`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Full Stack Gems review of one tool by slug: what is good, the Catch, verdict, license, repo health, plus links to its best-of list and alternatives.
```

### `list_categories`

- The name "list_categories" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The catalog vocabulary: stacks (categories), best-of lists with counts, and the tag vocabulary with counts. Use the slugs as filters in search_gems.
```

### `search_gems`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search the Stack Gems catalog of reviewed developer tools. Matches name, tagline, verdict, Catch, subcategory and tags. Filters combine with AND. Returns verdict and the first sentence of the Catch for each hit.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__catalog__search_gems",
      "mcp__catalog__get_gem",
      "mcp__catalog__get_alternatives",
      "mcp__catalog__list_categories"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__catalog__best_for"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```