# `com.stayotter/stay-otter` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.stayotter/stay-otter
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.stayotter/stay-otter
- Version: 1.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.stayotter (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:05:45.599Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Stay Otter
Verified stays with receipts: live totals, the street checked on the map, and booking watches.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:55:54.905Z 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 |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (3)

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

### `city_picks`

- 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
Instant and free: the latest finished standard search for one of the covered cities (a two-adult stay about a month out, refreshed daily). Covered: Austin, Lisbon, Kyoto, Mexico City, New York, Paris, Barcelona, Montreal, San Diego, Edinburgh, Honolulu, London, South Lake Tahoe, Sedona, Holbox, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Bentonville, Knoxville, Asheville, Canmore, Coeur d'Alene, Broken Bow, Lancaster, Ann Arbor. For other places or specific dates use search_stays.
```

### `set_alert`

- The name "set_alert" says "set": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Starts the otter's daily re-run of a finished search, emailing the key's account when a verified pick drops 5% or $50 or the cheapest pick disappears. Needs a key (stayotter.com/connect); the first alert is free with an account, more are Pro.
```

### `watch_booking`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
For a stay already booked with free cancellation: pass the confirmation email's text. The otter keeps five facts (property, dates, total paid, deadline, where it was booked), discards the rest (no names, confirmation numbers or card details), reads the property's rate every morning and emails the account when a cheaper rate it can still cancel into appears (5% or $50), with reminders 7, 3 and 1 days before the deadline. Hotels booked direct are read across sellers through Google's rate list. Needs a key; free and unlimited. The otter never books or cancels.
```

## Only reads (4)

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

### `check_listing`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Reads one place the traveller found themselves into the receipts a pick carries: where it is, whether the street is quiet or lively, bars, cafés and restaurants within a ten-minute walk, the distance to a spot they name and, with dates, the lowest total and the lowest they can still cancel, each read now. Takes a Booking.com, Vrbo or Expedia property page, or a hotel's name and city; Airbnb pages cannot be read. Needs a key: one check a day free, Pro up to thirty. 5 to 60 seconds.
```

### `get_activities`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Top-rated things to do on Viator for a search's spot and dates (what the trip is for first, the city's best otherwise), with a second place to look when the row is thin. Pass a searchId from search_stays or city_picks; intent overrides the search's own.
```

### `get_stay`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The card for a search by searchId: finished picks with receipts, or its running status. Free and instant. Use it to finish a search_stays call that returned 'running', or to read a shared stay (https://stayotter.com/stay/s_…).
```

### `search_stays`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Live search of Booking.com, Vrbo and Expedia (hotel rooms) for the dates and party, verified against the map. Returns up to three picks (best overall, best value, closest) with receipts and tracked openUrl links. Takes 30 to 90 seconds; returns status 'running' with a searchId if it is not done within waitSeconds. Three searches on the house per connection, then a key (free account: 10 a month; Pro: unlimited).
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__stay-otter__search_stays",
      "mcp__stay-otter__get_stay",
      "mcp__stay-otter__get_activities",
      "mcp__stay-otter__check_listing"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__stay-otter__city_picks",
      "mcp__stay-otter__set_alert",
      "mcp__stay-otter__watch_booking"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```