# `com.tippingrules/tipping-rules` 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.tippingrules/tipping-rules
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.tippingrules/tipping-rules
- Version: 1.0.1 (active)
- Publisher: com.tippingrules (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:07:15.012Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Tipping Rules
Read-only travel tipping for 140 destinations: search, country rules, and tip calculator.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:56:44.279Z over streamable-http.

**3 tools: 1 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 | 1 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 2 | 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__tipping-rules__get_tipping_rules` |
| 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.

### `calculate_tip`

- 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
Calculate a suggested tip and total for a bill using Tipping Rules destination norms (percent or round-up). Returns amounts plus canonical destination and calculator URLs.
```

## Only reads (2)

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

### `get_tipping_rules`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Get concise tipping guidance for a destination: status, summary, key service recommendations, last reviewed date, and the canonical page URL.
```

### `search_countries`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search Tipping Rules destinations by name or region. Returns matching destinations with status and canonical page URLs.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__tipping-rules__search_countries",
      "mcp__tipping-rules__get_tipping_rules"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__tipping-rules__calculate_tip"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__tipping-rules__get_tipping_rules`: untrusted-input

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T14:42:43.129Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T14:42:43.129Z. 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://www.tippingrules.com/api/mcp: tools/list returned 3 tools to an anonymous client, including calculate_tip (write)
```