# `com.thisisdelightful/games-research-starter-pack` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.thisisdelightful/games-research-starter-pack
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.thisisdelightful/games-research-starter-pack
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.thisisdelightful (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/itsmepants2/games-research-starter-pack
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:06:56.629Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Delightful's Game Research Starter Pack
Where to look for games industry research: 873 sources across ten markets, cited and free.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:37:05.419Z over streamable-http.

**6 tools: 1 change things and 5 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 | 5 | 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__games-research-starter-pack__list_trends` |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | `mcp__games-research-starter-pack__list_trends` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (1)

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

### `get_market`

- The name "get_market" says "get": a word for reading.
- The input takes a statement or command to run (input.code), which can change anything it can reach.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
How to research one of 12 games markets, and the profile behind it. It opens with before_you_start, the research notes for that market: which national annuals are paid and what is free, which venues are closed or could not be verified, which figures overlap or are published on a basis that will not compare, what a weekly chart does and does not count. Then known_gaps, what the directory does not hold for that market and where to go instead. Then a sourced narrative built from claims that each carry the link they came from, a market-size figure with the basis it was published on, a player-population figure with the definition of who was counted, and where that market's data lives. Only these twelve have profiles — for any other market code, search_sources with a market filter is what exists.
```

## Only reads (5)

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

### `get_landscape`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The platform and genre maps. 38 platforms — storefronts, consoles, livestreaming and UGC — with who owns each and where its data lives. 30 genres with definitions, subgenres, example games, and the terms actually used in Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Read the genre map before comparing two datasets: the industry has no shared taxonomy and this records where the vendors disagree.
```

### `get_source`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Retrieve one source by its slug, with everything recorded about it. Slugs come back from search_sources and are permanent — the same slug names the same source across releases, so it is what to cite.
```

### `list_trends`

- The name "list_trends" says "list": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "conversation": it reads messages.
- Tag untrusted-input: The description's first sentence says "conversation": it reads messages, which other people can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The 49 conversations currently moving the games industry, each with what it is, why it matters, the markets it lands in, its stage, how old the row is, and where it sits on the Three Horizons: H1, the current system running down, H2, the transition and its four groups, H3, the emerging future, or perennial ground. The placements are an editorial reading, not a score, and every answer carries the key to them in horizons. A routing map rather than a synthesis: it names arguments and points at where they are happening, and takes no position on any of them. Filter by horizon, group, market, stage, category or a free-text query; every filter narrows the list and none of them ranks it. Rows come in the order /trends reads them, 14 to a page: page with offset. Name one by slug to read it in full, with its further reading and its claims: a dated timeline, figures, status, consequences, objections and what to watch, each with the link it came from. This is the fastest-decaying data here — every row is dated, and anything older than about six months needs a refresh.
```

### `search_sources`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search 981 curated sources on the video games industry: press outlets, trade associations, datasets, analysts, podcasts, books, YouTube channels and communities across 26 markets. Every one was opened and read before it was described, and each result says what it lets you find out, who owns it and what it costs. This answers "where would I look for this?" — it is a directory of sources, not a source of facts, and nothing in it is ranked or scored.
```

### `search_techniques`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
44 search techniques for games research, each with a query you can paste, what it surfaces and why it works. Includes local-language strategies for researching the Japanese, Korean and Chinese markets without reading the language. Use this before searching the open web on a games question — these are the queries that reach material a plain search buries.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `games-research-starter-pack`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__games-research-starter-pack__search_sources",
      "mcp__games-research-starter-pack__get_source",
      "mcp__games-research-starter-pack__list_trends",
      "mcp__games-research-starter-pack__get_landscape",
      "mcp__games-research-starter-pack__search_techniques"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__games-research-starter-pack__get_market"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__games-research-starter-pack__list_trends`: private-data, untrusted-input

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T14:42:34.712Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T14:42:34.712Z. 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 | `1` |
| 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 1 tool that changes things (1 write). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://games.thisisdelightful.com/mcp: tools/list returned 6 tools to an anonymous client, including get_market (write)
```