# `dev.blvkware/hallux` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/dev.blvkware/hallux
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/dev.blvkware/hallux
- Version: 0.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: dev.blvkware (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:11:41.390Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
HALLUX
Check that a package, module or DOI exists before an agent installs, imports or cites it.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:58:46.540Z over streamable-http.

**4 tools: 4 change things.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 4 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 0 | allow |

## Findings

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

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "hallux_check_command" 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 description's first verb is "call": a word for a change.
```

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

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "hallux_check_manifest" 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 description's first verb is "call": a word for a change.
```


## Changes things (4)

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

### `hallux_check`

- 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
Does this identifier actually exist? Call before acting on any name you recalled rather than read: a package to install, a module to import, a DOI to cite.

Returns one of: exists, deprecated, absent, phantom, squat, unknown.
  exists     - proceed
  deprecated - proceed, but use `successor`
  absent     - not in the registry. Do not proceed
  phantom    - does not exist AND models repeatedly invent it. Do not proceed
  squat      - was invented by models, then registered by someone. Treat as hostile
  unknown    - could not verify. Never treat this as permission

Live namespaces: cite.doi, pkg.crates, pkg.go, pkg.maven, pkg.npm, pkg.nuget, pkg.pypi. An unsupported namespace returns `unknown`, never an error, so it is safe to ask.
```

### `hallux_check_command`

- The description's first verb is "call": a word for a change.
- The input takes a statement or command to run (input.command), which can change anything it can reach.
- 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
Call this BEFORE running any command that installs a dependency: npm, yarn, pnpm, bun, pip, uv, poetry, pipx, cargo, go get, dotnet add package, nuget.

Language models invent plausible package names that have never existed, and attackers register those names because they can predict them. Installing one runs attacker code. You cannot tell the difference by looking at the name, which is why this check exists.

Pass the command exactly as you intend to run it. The identifiers are extracted for you.

If the result says BLOCK, do not run the command. Use the `successor` if one is given, otherwise tell the user what was found and stop.
```

### `hallux_check_manifest`

- 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.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Call this after writing or editing a dependency file, and before committing it. Supported: package.json, requirements.txt, pyproject.toml, Cargo.toml, go.mod.

Checks every dependency in one pass, including dev and optional groups, which is where an invented name usually arrives.
```

### `hallux_watch`

- 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
Register identifiers for notification when their verdict changes. The transition that matters is phantom to squat: a name models invent that somebody then registers.

Use this for a dependency that came back `absent` or `phantom` and that the user intends to use anyway, or for a set of dependencies worth monitoring. Delivered by signed webhook to a URL you supply.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__hallux__hallux_check_command",
      "mcp__hallux__hallux_check",
      "mcp__hallux__hallux_check_manifest",
      "mcp__hallux__hallux_watch"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```