# `com.thenewengineer/hvac` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.thenewengineer/hvac
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.thenewengineer/hvac
- Version: 1.3.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.thenewengineer (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:06:56.629Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
The New Engineer — HVAC
IFC models: duct networks, circuits, pressure drop. EN 12828 vessels, EN 378, Swiss refrigerants.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:56:33.897Z over streamable-http.

**11 tools: 10 change things and 1 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 10 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 1 | 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__hvac__apply_ifc_rules` `mcp__hvac__ifc_upload_result` `mcp__hvac__name_ifc_networks` `mcp__hvac__open_ifc_upload` `mcp__hvac__read_ifc_networks` `mcp__hvac__read_ifc_overview` `mcp__hvac__trace_duct_circuits` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

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

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 2,060 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "...ink to the website, which measures all of these on the user's IFC model."
```

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

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 2,614 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "...your answer on `answer_outline`; quote exceptions as possible, never as granted."
```

- **info** Long descriptions in `check_en378_zones` ([long-description](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#long-description))

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 3,583 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "..., food refrigeration and industrial process refrigeration are a different trade."
```

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

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 2,673 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "...ether the networks are ready yet: 'pret' means read_ifc_networks will answer now."
```

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

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "read_ifc_overview" 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 "read_ifc_overview" says "read": a word for reading.
```

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

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 3,102 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "...'pieces') but lists at most thirty names: the count, not the list, is the model."
```

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

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 2,328 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "...e 3D view, and a stale figure stated confidently is worse than no figure at all."
```

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

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 10,677 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "...n the page, call this again before stating any figure - never answer from memory."
```

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

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "ifc_upload_result" 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 "ifc_upload_result" says "upload": a word for a change.
```


## Changes things (10)

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

### `apply_ifc_rules`

- The name "apply_ifc_rules" says "apply": a word for a change.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.
- Findings: info long-description

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Turn what you read in the overview into rules the tool replays on
EVERY piece of the model, including the ones you were never shown.

THIS IS HOW THE TOOL LEARNS A MODEL. read_ifc_overview gives you some
fifty groups — one per object type, not one per piece. You answer with
RULES on those groups, and this tool applies them to the three thousand
pieces. You never give a verdict piece by piece: the result stays
deterministic because a program, not you, does the matching.

THEN READ THE ANSWER BACK, AND EXPECT TO POST AGAIN. The answer gives
every group with the role your rules gave it and how many pieces that
is. A rule that is too wide shows up on one line — « Gaine
rectangulaire cadree, 471 pieces, centrale_de_traitement_d_air » is a
rule that turned every duct into an air handling unit. Narrow it and
post again. Calling this tool costs nothing and may be repeated as
often as you need.

WHAT NEEDS A ROLE, AND WHAT DOES NOT. Plain ducts and fittings need
none: they are network by nature, and the answer marks them
segment_ou_raccord so you can see at a glance whether a rule caught
them by mistake. What needs a role is everything else — air handling
units, fans, fire dampers, balancing dampers, silencers, louvres,
diffusers — plus whatever must be kept OUT of the network, such as
access zones, equipment plinths or damper motors.

TWO ROLE NAMES ARE FIXED, because circuits start from them: give air
handling units, monoblocs and ventilation casings the role
centrale_de_traitement_d_air, and fans the role ventilateur - exactly
these words. ONLY EQUIPMENT THAT MOVES THE AIR gets one of them: a
unit is a box with a fan in it. Heating and cooling coils, heat
exchangers, filters, silencers, dampers, fire dampers, VAV boxes,
humidifiers are NOT units: the air runs through them, they are
pieces of the network. Give them another role (coil, silencer,
damper...) or none - never one of the two unit roles. A coil in
'equipements' is a rule that is too wide. The answer lists, under
'equipements', the GUIDs of every piece of the model that got one of
the two roles: that list is what trace_duct_circuits starts from,
and what the pages show as units. Every other role name is yours to
choose.

ORDER THE LIST YOURSELF, most specific first, down to the most
general.
The fire damper rule must come before the balancing damper rule, or
« damper » takes everything. Equipment must come before terminals:
« VEN_MSF_MONOBLOC_SIMPLE_FLUX_REPRISE » contains « reprise », and a
return-diffuser rule placed first would claim the air handling unit.

Pieces no rule catches are simply listed, with no warning and no
failure: the engineer judges on the 3D view, not on a coverage report.

NEXT: once 'equipements' lists the air handling units and fans you
expect, call trace_duct_circuits with only the token. It computes
nothing yet: it checks that the units are connected to the networks
and returns the complete list of units and fans, to choose from -
see trace_duct_circuits. 'equipements' counts every piece
('pieces') but lists at most thirty names: the count, not the list,
is the model.

```

### `check_en378_zones`

- 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.
- Findings: info long-description

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
DETERMINISTIC: the same inputs always give the same result — from any AI, on any day. Figures come from the standard's tables and formulas, never from a language model's estimate. Every step is auditable.

EN 378 applied to BUILDING projects, volume by volume.

An installation does not occupy one room but several: the machine, the rooms
crossed by refrigerant lines, the rooms served by indoor units. Each volume
is classified on its own — access category (a/b/c) and location class (I–IV)
— and each classification calls for its own measures. The tool answers per
volume, never as a single verdict.

It returns, for every volume: its classification and why, the charge limit
from Tables C.1 and C.2 of EN 378-1 (with the C.2 formula computed when the
table calls for it), whether the charge exceeds it, the EN 378-3 measures
that follow, the applicable texts (EN 378-1 to -4, EN IEC 60079-10-1, SUVA
66139 and 2153) and the ventilation flow rates.

FOUR CONFIGURATIONS COVER ALMOST EVERY BUILDING PROJECT. Bring the user's
case back to one of them wherever possible:
  machine_en_local_technique   chiller or heat pump, all refrigerant inside
                               the machine, standing in a plant room -> c III
  enceinte_accessible_fermee   all refrigerant inside a walk-in ventilated
                               enclosure that stays closed even for
                               maintenance -> the enclosure is c III, the
                               room around it carries no requirement
  enceintes_inaccessibles      one or more units, each in a manufacturer's
                               non-accessible ventilated enclosure -> TWO
                               analyses: the enclosure in operation (class
                               IV, the manufacturer sizes and justifies it,
                               ask him for the enclosure ventilation), and
                               the plant room with the enclosure OPEN for
                               maintenance, which comes back to c III
  split_traversant             split or VRF outdoors, refrigerant lines
                               crossing occupied rooms -> each room on its
                               own; offices and their circulations are b I,
                               and formula C.2 gives the maximum charge for
                               the floor area, or the minimum floor area for
                               the charge

THIS TOOL ANSWERS SAFETY IN THE ROOM. It says NOTHING about whether the
refrigerant may still be placed on the market or refilled: in Switzerland that
is `check_refrigerant_switzerland`. A question that mixes both - « may I use
R-32 for 3 kg in a server room, and until when can I refill it » - needs BOTH
tools: call this one for the room, and check_refrigerant_switzerland for the
dates. Do not answer half the question.

NEVER guess. The refrigerant, the configuration and the charge are always
needed; a split also needs the floor area and how the indoor unit is mounted
(floor, wall, window, ceiling), since C.2 depends on it. Without them the
result is `provisional` and carries `questions_to_ask`: ask them, one or two
at a time, then call again.

Answer from `answer_outline`, volume by volume. In building projects,
detection is preferred over treating a plant room as an ATEX zone. C.3 is
never used. Say that the practical limit alone proves nothing: the charge
limit of Tables C.1 and C.2 is what counts.

SCOPE: building services. Cold rooms, food refrigeration and industrial
process refrigeration are a different trade.

```

### `check_refrigerant_switzerland`

- 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.
- Findings: info long-description

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
DETERMINISTIC: the same inputs always give the same result — from any AI, on any day. Figures come from the regulation's annexes and thresholds, never from a language model's estimate. Every step is auditable.

Swiss refrigerant regulation check (ORRChim / ChemRRV annex 2.10, OFEV synthesis
of May 2026, rules adopted 29.10.2025) plus refrigerant data from EN 378-1
Annex E: GWP (AR4, the ORRChim basis), ODP, LFL, safety class, practical limit.

Returns, for a given refrigerant and installation: the date from which machines
using it can no longer be placed on the Swiss market (import from 01.01.2027,
sale to third parties from 01.07.2027), the date from which filling with virgin
refrigerant is banned, the period when only reclaimed refrigerant may be used,
and the date from which all filling is banned.

SCOPE: heating, air conditioning, building cooling and process cooling,
data centres included. NOT food refrigeration, cold rooms or deep freezing:
those are a different trade, and the tool declines them instead of
answering.

Use it whenever the user asks about a refrigerant in Switzerland — its GWP / PRG,
flammability, whether a chiller, heat pump, split, VRF or cold room using it may
still be sold or refilled — in any language: fluide frigorigène, Kältemittel,
refrigerante, refrigerant, R-32, R-410A, R-290, CO2, NH3...

The answer depends on the installation. The regulation distinguishes:
use (building cooling, food refrigeration medium / low temperature / combined /
deep freezing, process cooling, heat pump mainly for heating, ice rink), cooling
capacity Q0K or heating capacity Q0H, self-contained (factory-built packaged
unit) or not, split, direct expansion (incl. VRF), secondary coolant loop
(chilled water / brine), air-cooled condenser and refrigerant charge.
THIS TOOL ANSWERS ONE QUESTION ONLY: may the refrigerant still be sold and
refilled in Switzerland, and until when. It says NOTHING about safety in the
room - charge limits, machine room, detection, ventilation, ATEX. That is
`check_en378_zones`. A question that mixes both - « may I use R-32 for 3 kg in
a server room, and until when can I refill it » - needs BOTH tools: call this
one for the dates, and check_en378_zones for the room. Do not answer half the
question.

NEVER guess these. Call the tool with what the user gave: it returns
`provisional: true`, the possible `scenarios`, and `questions_to_ask` in the
order that matters most. Ask them (one or two at a time), then call again.
Natural refrigerants need no questions. Build your answer on `answer_outline`;
quote exceptions as possible, never as granted.

```

### `ifc_upload_result`

- The name "ifc_upload_result" says "upload": 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
Where the upload stands. When `state` is `depose`, `token` is the
token to pass to read_ifc_networks.
```

### `name_ifc_networks`

- The description's first verb is "apply": a word for a change.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Apply the names you propose, and get back the updated report.

THE NAMES ARE YOURS, THE NETWORKS ARE NOT. You are naming what the
tool measured; you are not changing what it measured. Nothing you
send here alters a network, a part, or a correction.

WHAT COMES BACK. The updated report, a 3D link where the user sees
your names in colour, and a link to the corrective Dynamo script that
writes the systems back into Revit.

ALWAYS GIVE THE USER THE 3D LINK, and say plainly which names are
yours. Networks are deterministic; names are a proposal. A user who
cannot tell the two apart cannot check your work.

AFTER THE USER HAS BEEN IN THE 3D VIEW, call read_ifc_networks again
with the same token before saying anything about the model. They may
have renamed what you proposed, assigned parts by hand, or refused a
correction — and only a fresh read shows it.

```

### `open_ifc_upload`

- The name "open_ifc_upload" says "open": a word for a change.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Show an upload box in the conversation where the user can drop an
IFC file (.ifc) of a building services model (HVAC, plumbing,
heating). The file goes straight from the user's browser to
thenewengineer.com - you never see it.

CALL THIS when the user wants to analyse an IFC model and has not yet
given you a link from thenewengineer.com. Then tell the user to drop
the file in the box.

When the upload is done, the box posts a message with a token. Use
that token with read_ifc_networks. If no message arrives and the user
says the upload is done, call ifc_upload_result with the upload_token
returned here.

Prototype: files up to the anonymous size limit of the site.
```

### `read_ifc_overview`

- The name "read_ifc_overview" says "read": a word for reading.
- The description's first verb is "call": 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: info long-description, warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
CALL THIS FIRST, as soon as the user gives you a token. It answers
within seconds, while the network graph is still being built - use
that time to think.

THE CIRCUITS OF A MODEL IN FOUR CALLS:
  1. read_ifc_overview - this call: the types of the model.
  2. apply_ifc_rules - your rules. Give air handling units,
     monoblocs and ventilation casings the role
     centrale_de_traitement_d_air, and fans the role ventilateur,
     exactly these words - and ONLY to equipment that holds a fan.
     Coils, heat exchangers, filters, silencers, dampers, VAV boxes
     are pieces of the network, not units. Its answer lists under
     'equipements' every unit and fan of the model.
  3. trace_duct_circuits with ONLY the token - it computes nothing,
     walks the networks from every unit and fan, and either returns
     the COMPLETE list of units and fans with a view-only page, or
     says the units could not be connected to the model's networks.
  4. trace_duct_circuits again with the units the user wants, or
     all_networks=true for all of them (offered up to 50 air
     networks only).
The answer of this call repeats these steps under 'marche_a_suivre'.

YOU SEE A SAMPLE, THE TOOL SEES EVERYTHING. This overview shows one
example per type, not every piece: you cannot count the units, the
fans or the networks of the model from it, and you must not believe
you have seen them all. The tool applies your rules to every piece
and walks every network. So never pick the networks to compute from
this overview: trace_duct_circuits gives you the complete list of
units and fans first, and you choose from THAT list.

WHAT YOU GET. Not 3 000 parts: the 20 to 50 distinct TYPES of the
model (duct types, fittings, dampers, terminals, equipment, proxies),
each with its IFC class, predefined type, type name, one example part
with ALL its properties, and a catalogue of every property present.

WHAT TO DO WITH IT. Write RULES, not verdicts. For roles: which words,
in which field, identify a fire damper, a silencer, a balancing
damper, an air terminal, an air handling unit, a fan, a pump - and
which groups are NOT network at all (access zones, plinths,
placeholders, damper motors). For sizes: which 'PropertySet.Property'
holds height, width, diameter, length. A rule applies to every part,
including those you were not shown, and to the user's next models.

TRAPS the field 'a_savoir' warns about: values are in the FILE's unit
(see metres_par_unite), not millimetres; insulation sizes and
hydraulic diameters look like dimensions and are not.

The field 'etat_du_graphe' says whether the networks are ready yet:
'pret' means read_ifc_networks will answer now.
```

### `size_expansion_vessel`

- 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.
- Findings: info long-description

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
DETERMINISTIC: the same inputs always give the same result — from any AI, on any day. Figures come from the standard's tables and formulas, never from a language model's estimate. Every step is auditable.

Size the expansion vessel and pressurisation of a closed heating or
    chilled-water circuit to EN 12828: static height, minimum pressure p0,
    fill pressure pa, final pressure pe, expansion volume, water reserve,
    nominal vessel volume with the standard vessel to buy, safety valve
    setting together with the minimum it must not fall below, pressure
    class of the lowest equipment, intermediate vessel when needed.

    Heights become pressures through the real density of the fluid, at the
    temperature that matters for each: the coldest for p0, the design
    temperature for the valve and the lowest point. Water and glycols
    therefore give different figures for the same height.

    Use it whenever the user asks to size or check an expansion vessel,
    pressurisation unit, pre-charge pressure or safety valve — in any
    language: vase d'expansion, maintien de pression, Ausdehnungsgefäss,
    Druckhaltung, vaso di espansione, vaso de expansión.

    Needs the installation water volume and THREE heights, all measured
    from the point where the expansion vessel connects to the network:
      - the highest point of the installation, above it;
      - the lowest point, usually below it (negative) or level with it;
      - the safety valve, which always sits on the heat generator or
        chiller. If the user does not know it, it is assumed 1 m above
        the vessel connection, and the result says so.
    Ask the user for the volume and the three heights before calling.
    NEVER invent a height: if the lowest point or the valve height is
    unknown, omit it. The result is then marked provisional and lists
    the questions to ask. Build your answer on `answer_outline`: it
    carries the assumptions, the questions and the link to the website,
    which measures all of these on the user's IFC model.
    
```

### `trace_duct_circuits`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.
- Findings: info long-description

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
THE CIRCUITS THE FANS OF A MODEL ARE SIZED ON, found without anyone
clicking and computed on the pressure-drop page, where the user
confirms types and flows and reads the pressure drops.

ONLY UNITS AND FANS ARE EXCHANGED. The tool never sends you system
names: it sends the air handling units and fans your rules found,
each with what the network walk finds connected to it - geometry,
not names. A unit is equipment with a FAN - air handling unit,
monobloc, ventilation casing, fan. Coils, heat exchangers, filters,
silencers, dampers are network pieces: if one shows up in the list
(often as 'dans_le_reseau_de' another unit), your rules are too
wide - fix them with apply_ifc_rules before choosing.

FIRST THE CHECK AND THE LIST, THEN THE CALCULATION. Called with only
the token, once your rules are posted with apply_ifc_rules, it
computes NOTHING and bills nothing. It walks the networks from every
unit and fan and measures the share of the model's air pieces they
reach ('raccordement'). Two answers:
  - CONNECTED (half of the air pieces or more): the COMPLETE list of
    units and fans ('centrales_et_ventilateurs', each with its
    number of connected networks) and 'lien_centrales', a VIEW-ONLY
    page - every unit in a light colour with its name floating
    above it, each of its networks in the same colour. Give the
    user that link and say nothing is computed yet. Then:
      * the user named units, even loosely: map their words onto
        the EXACT names of the list, say which you picked, and call
        again with units;
      * the user asked for the whole model and the list says
        'tous_possible' (50 air networks or fewer): call again with
        all_networks=true;
      * otherwise show the user the WHOLE list to tick - every unit
        and fan, however long; never only the main ones. 'Tous'
        first when it is offered, then one numbered line per unit
        with its number of connected networks; mark the units
        connected to nothing. Filter only on what the user said,
        and then say which filter and how many lines it left out.
        Call with what they tick.
  - NOT CONNECTED ('non_raccorde': less than half, or no unit at
    all): tell the user the sentence of 'A_DIRE_A_L_UTILISATEUR' -
    « Nous n'avons pas pu connecter les centrales de traitement
    d'air aux réseaux de votre modèle », in their language - and
    suggest the pressure-drop page ('lien_pdc'), where they define
    each network themselves by a start and an end. Nothing is
    computed. If your rules missed units, fix them and call again.
WHAT IS COMPUTED: for each network connected to a chosen unit or
fan, the LONGEST path. Networks connected to no unit are not
computed here.
BEYOND 50 AIR NETWORKS, THE MODEL IS COMPUTED ONE UNIT AT A TIME.
Each call computes ONE unit - unit_name, or units with a single
name - or the network of ONE piece - network_guid. The whole model,
start_role and several units are refused: nothing is computed, and
the answer says why. Ask the user which unit, or which piece: on the
view-only page, hovering a piece shows its GUID. Call again for the
next one; what is computed stays, and is not billed again.

YOU SEE A SAMPLE IN THE OVERVIEW, THE WHOLE MODEL HERE. Never choose
the units from what read_ifc_overview showed you - one example per
type: choose from the list this tool returns.

A REQUEST THE TOOL CANNOT MATCH. Names that match nothing come back
under 'non_reconnus', each with the closest names; the names that
did match are computed. If NOTHING matched - or the GUID or
unit_name is unknown - nothing is computed, whatever the size of
the model: the list comes back, with the closest names under
'non_reconnus' and what went wrong under 'demande_non_satisfaite'.
Correct the names from the list, or ask the user which one they
meant, and call again.

A PIECE INSTEAD OF A UNIT. When the model has no unit, when the
unit the user means was not recognised, or when they simply show a
piece: network_gu… [6677 more characters not shown]
```

### `water_content_from_vessel`

- 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
DETERMINISTIC: the same inputs always give the same result — from
any AI, on any day. Figures come from the standard's tables and
formulas, never from a language model's estimate. Every step is
auditable.

Deduce the water content of an installation from the expansion vessel
already fitted.

WHAT THIS IS FOR. Refurbishment, and site visits with no drawings.
Sizing a new vessel, a new pump or a new generator needs the water
content, and on an existing installation nobody has it: the drawings
are lost, or never matched what was built. The vessel on the wall is
the one piece of evidence still standing, and it was chosen from that
very figure.

ASK THE OPERATOR FIRST. Whoever filled or refilled the system knows
the real figure — from the meter, the filling station, or the
maintenance log — and that figure beats any deduction. This tool is
what you use when nobody knows, or to check a number that looks
wrong. It gets the conversation moving; it does not close it.

HOW. The sizing calculation is run backwards: a trial water content is
fed to the EN 12828 sizing, the resulting vessel is compared with the
one on site, and the trial is adjusted until they match. The formulas
are never rewritten in reverse — the answer cannot contradict the
direct calculation, because it is the same code.

WHAT THE ANSWER IS WORTH. A vessel is picked from a catalogue range:
a 200 L unit covers everything needing between 141 and 200 L. The
result is therefore A RANGE, never a single figure. And an oversized
vessel — common — will overstate the content. Compare the range with
what you see on site; it does not replace looking.

It also assumes the vessel was sized correctly in the first place. If
it was not, the deduction inherits the mistake — which is itself
worth knowing: a range far from what the installation plainly holds
means the vessel is wrong, and that is a finding in its own right.

```

## Only reads (1)

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

### `read_ifc_networks`

- The name "read_ifc_networks" says "read": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.
- Findings: info long-description

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
DETERMINISTIC: networks come from geometry, not from a guess. The
same model always gives the same networks, from any AI, on any day.

Read the networks of an IFC model already uploaded by the user.

WHAT A NETWORK IS. A set of parts that touch each other, cut at
equipment: a pump, an air handling unit, a chiller separates two
systems, so the tool does not run through them. This is measured on
the geometry — you cannot and need not check it.

WHAT YOU GET, PER NETWORK
  state          'homogeneous' — a system exists, some parts were
                 mis-named by the modeller; the tool will correct them.
                 'undetermined' — no system can be read. THIS is where
                 you are useful.
                 'assigned' — the user or you already named it.
  system         the dominant name, when there is one
  part_dominante the share of named parts carrying it
  equipements_voisins  the NAMES of the machines this network is
                 connected to. An undetermined network starting from
                 'AHU-Supply-L2' names itself — but only you can see it.
  systemes_existants   every system name already in the model

WHAT TO DO NEXT. Propose a name for each undetermined network, using
the neighbouring equipment, the existing system names, and anything
the user told you about the project's naming scheme. Ask the user for
their list of planned systems if you do not have it. Then call
name_ifc_networks.

WHAT NOT TO DO. Do not rename a network the report calls
'homogeneous' unless its name plainly contradicts the equipment it is
connected to — and then say why. Do not invent a network: you cannot
see the geometry, and the tool already did that work.

CALL THIS AGAIN WHENEVER THE STATE MAY HAVE MOVED. The token stays
valid for 48 hours and is a key, not a snapshot: every call recomputes
and returns the model AS IT IS NOW. The user works in the browser
between your messages — renaming networks, assigning parts by hand,
accepting or refusing corrections. So the moment they say they have
done something, or you are about to state a figure, call this tool
again.

NEVER ANSWER FROM MEMORY about networks, counts or states. What you
read earlier is already out of date the moment the user touches the
3D view, and a stale figure stated confidently is worse than no
figure at all.

```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__hvac__read_ifc_networks"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__hvac__size_expansion_vessel",
      "mcp__hvac__water_content_from_vessel",
      "mcp__hvac__check_refrigerant_switzerland",
      "mcp__hvac__check_en378_zones",
      "mcp__hvac__read_ifc_overview",
      "mcp__hvac__apply_ifc_rules",
      "mcp__hvac__name_ifc_networks",
      "mcp__hvac__trace_duct_circuits",
      "mcp__hvac__open_ifc_upload",
      "mcp__hvac__ifc_upload_result"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__hvac__read_ifc_overview`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__hvac__apply_ifc_rules`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__hvac__read_ifc_networks`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__hvac__name_ifc_networks`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__hvac__trace_duct_circuits`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__hvac__open_ifc_upload`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__hvac__ifc_upload_result`: untrusted-input

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T14:42:27.788Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T14:42:27.788Z. No credentials were sent and no tool was called. Values are shown as the endpoint returned them. Method: https://anlyon.dev/methodology#remote-posture

| Fact | Observed |
| --- | --- |
| Reachable | `yes` |
| HTTP status of an anonymous initialize | `200` |
| tools/list served without credentials | `yes` |
| Tools that change things, listed without credentials | `10` |
| Protocol version | `2025-06-18` |
| WWW-Authenticate on 401 | `not observed` |
| resource_metadata in WWW-Authenticate | `none` |
| RFC 9728 protected resource metadata | `none` |
| Authorization servers | `none` |
| Legacy HTTP+SSE transport | `no` |
| Dynamic client registration | `not observed` |
| Client ID metadata documents | `not observed` |

- **warn** Tools that change things, listed to anyone ([unauth-remote-writes](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#unauth-remote-writes))

```untrusted-server-text
The endpoint served tools/list without credentials, and the list has 10 tools that change things (10 write). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://thenewengineer.com/mcp: tools/list returned 11 tools to an anonymous client, including size_expansion_vessel (write), water_content_from_vessel (write), check_refrigerant_switzerland (write), check_en378_zones (write), read_ifc_overview (write) and 5 more
```
