# `com.thefaceanalysis/face-analysis` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.thefaceanalysis/face-analysis
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.thefaceanalysis/face-analysis
- Version: 0.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.thefaceanalysis (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/The-Face-Analysis/thefaceanalysis-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-26T14:17:39.118Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
TheFaceAnalysis
Face shape rules and a 102-face open measurement dataset. Read-only, no photos.
```

Scanned 2026-10-26T14:17:57.774Z over streamable-http.

**7 tools: 1 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 | 1 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 6 | allow |

## Exfil surface

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

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | none |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | `mcp__face-analysis__get_embed_snippet` `mcp__face-analysis__get_face_type` `mcp__face-analysis__list_face_types` |
| 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 `classify_face_shape` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

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

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The description's first verb is "run": a word for a change.
```


## Changes things (1)

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

### `classify_face_shape`

- The description's first verb is "run": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Runs the same seven-rule face shape classifier as thefaceanalysis.com/face-shape-detector on four distances (any consistent unit: pixels, mm or landmark units). Returns the shape, the rule that matched and the four ratios. It does not look at photos: to measure a photo, use the widget (get_embed_snippet) or the site. Borderline faces can flip between two shapes; no accuracy figure is claimed because the reference set has no labelled face types.
```

## Only reads (6)

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

### `get_citation`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Citation text, license (CC BY 4.0 for the aggregate numbers) and the source photo set. Use when quoting a number.
```

### `get_embed_snippet`

- The name "get_embed_snippet" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The description's first sentence says "html": it reads web pages, which anyone can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
HTML a website owner can paste to add the free face shape finder (it measures the visitor's photo in their browser, no sign-up). Includes the visible credit link the terms ask for.
```

### `get_face_type`

- The name "get_face_type" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The description's first sentence says "url": it reads web pages, which anyone can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Definition and how the type is measured from a front photo (the exact threshold rule), plus its page URL. Example: category 'face', slug 'oval'.
```

### `get_methodology`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
How the numbers are made: the landmark model, every classification threshold, how the 1-10 score is built, and how it correlated with 2,513 human raters on the same faces (it did not predict them). Includes the method change history.
```

### `get_reference_statistics`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Percentiles (p10, p25, median, p75, p90, min, max) of facial measurements from 102 adult faces (49 women, 53 men) of the Face Research Lab London Set, measured with a 478-point MediaPipe landmarker. Measures: composite score, symmetry, golden ratio fit, fWHR, midface ratio, pupillary distance, canthal tilt. Aggregates only; one research set photographed in one city, so these describe these faces, not a population.
```

### `list_face_types`

- The name "list_face_types" says "list": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The description's first sentence says "list" and "url": it reads web pages, which anyone can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Lists the types the site's detectors use, with slug, name, page URL and how many of the 102 reference faces each type covered. The split shows how the detector divides these faces, not how common a type is in a population.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__face-analysis__get_reference_statistics",
      "mcp__face-analysis__list_face_types",
      "mcp__face-analysis__get_face_type",
      "mcp__face-analysis__get_methodology",
      "mcp__face-analysis__get_citation",
      "mcp__face-analysis__get_embed_snippet"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__face-analysis__classify_face_shape"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__face-analysis__list_face_types`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__face-analysis__get_face_type`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__face-analysis__get_embed_snippet`: untrusted-input