# `com.staycostbrain/stay-cost-brain` 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.staycostbrain/stay-cost-brain
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.staycostbrain/stay-cost-brain
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.staycostbrain (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/jimiwalters-cmyk/stay-cost-brain-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-29T12:17:36.950Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Stay Cost Brain
Tourist and hotel taxes from official sources, worked out night by night for your dates and guests.
```

Scanned 2026-10-29T11:17:59.980Z over streamable-http.

**5 tools: 3 change things and 2 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 | 2 | allow |

## Exfil surface

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

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | `mcp__stay-cost-brain__list_places` |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | `mcp__stay-cost-brain__hotels_link` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

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

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

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


## Changes things (3)

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

### `hotels_link`

- The name "hotels_link" says "link": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
A link to live hotel and rental prices for a place or any town and the given dates and guests (Stay22, showing Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Vrbo and others). The person sees prices and books there; this tool returns no prices and books nothing. Stay Cost Brain may earn a commission on bookings.
```

### `place_rules`

- 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
Every tourist-tax rule for one researched place: each tax with its authority, legal basis, rates by type of stay, season and area, night caps, exemptions, how it is paid, valid dates and status (verified, inferred, announced), with source links and dates.
```

### `tourist_tax`

- 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
The tourist tax for one stay, worked out night by night: each tax that applies (regional and city parts separately), the amount or the range when the star rating or type of stay is not given, how many nights are charged, how it is paid, announced changes in force on those nights, and the official source and date for each. Accepts a researched place or any town; towns outside the researched places return researched=false. Percentage taxes need room_price_total. Residents', medical and other special exemptions are listed in `rules`, not applied.
```

## Only reads (2)

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

### `get_capabilities`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
What Stay Cost Brain covers: the researched places, how the tax figures are sourced and dated, what it does not do (no room prices, no booking), and the sister services.
```

### `list_places`

- The name "list_places" says "list": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "table": it reads databases.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Every place with a researched tourist-tax table: name, country, today's headline rate, the date it was checked, the next re-check date, the towns that set their own tax, and the page with every rate and source.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `stay-cost-brain`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__stay-cost-brain__get_capabilities",
      "mcp__stay-cost-brain__list_places"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__stay-cost-brain__tourist_tax",
      "mcp__stay-cost-brain__place_rules",
      "mcp__stay-cost-brain__hotels_link"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__stay-cost-brain__list_places`: private-data
- `mcp__stay-cost-brain__hotels_link`: untrusted-input