# `dev.tabnas/mcp` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/dev.tabnas/mcp
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/dev.tabnas/mcp
- Version: 0.1.20 (active)
- Publisher: dev.tabnas (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/tabnas/mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:12:20.892Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
tabnas
Seven tools over the tabnas parsing engine: parse, validate, diagnose, fixtures, compare.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:38:28.307Z over streamable-http.

**7 tools: 2 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 | 2 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 5 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (2)

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

### `parse`

- 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
Parse input with the tabnas engine. Returns {ok:true, tree} or, on parse failure, {ok:false, diagnostic} — the structured diagnostic described by resource tabnas://schema/diagnostic. An invalid grammar is rejected as {ok:false, errors:[{path,message}]}. Without a grammar the bare engine is used, which defines no rules and produces an undefined tree for every input.
```

### `test_grammar`

- The description's first verb is "run": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Run TSV fixture content against a grammar in a fresh instance, using the fleet fixture convention (@tabnas/support): line 1 is a header, the input column is escape-decoded, the expected column is JSON or ERROR / ERROR:<code>. Returns {pass, fail, rows:[{row,input,expected,got,ok}]}. Refuses more than 10000 rows.
```

## Only reads (5)

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

### `compare_grammars`

- The name "compare_grammars" says "compare": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Grammar compatibility (AX plan Phase 5): does candidate grammar B still accept what baseline A accepted, and does it build the same tree for inputs both accept? Returns EVIDENCE AND CONFIDENCE, never a bare verdict: {normalForm, proven[], observed[], changes[], counterexamples[], confidence, why}. confidence:'low' with a stated reason is a successful run, not a failure — language inclusion is undecidable in general, so anything outside the decidable subset is reported not-proven rather than incompatible. Supply `corpus` (real inputs) for the tier that measures what your documents actually do.
```

### `describe_plugin`

- The name "describe_plugin" says "describe": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The full descriptor for one plugin, by package name ('@tabnas/csv') or bare fleet name ('csv'). Unknown names get {ok:false, errors} naming the known plugins.
```

### `explain_parse_error`

- The name "explain_parse_error" says "explain": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Parse input and explain the failure. Returns {failed:false} when the input parses; otherwise {failed:true, diagnostic, registry} where registry is the error-code registry entry {code,message,hint} for the diagnostic code (resource tabnas://errors), or null for a code the bundled registry does not know (e.g. a plugin-declared code).
```

### `list_plugins`

- The name "list_plugins" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List every bundled tabnas plugin descriptor (tabnas.plugin.json of each fleet repo), sorted by name. Returns {plugins:[...]}.
```

### `validate_grammar`

- The name "validate_grammar" says "validate": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Validate a serialized GrammarSpec. Structural validation against the bundled grammar schema, an engine load in a fresh instance, and a check that every rule reference (`p`, `r`) names a rule the grammar actually defines — a dangling reference loads cleanly and then fails at parse time with `unknown_rule`. Returns {ok:true, v} (v = declared builtin config-schema version, absent means 1) or {ok:false, errors:[{path,message}]}. Security: a grammar carrying a `ref` key, or any function reference that is not a $-suffixed engine builtin, is rejected — validating a grammar never runs supplied code.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__tabnas__validate_grammar",
      "mcp__tabnas__explain_parse_error",
      "mcp__tabnas__list_plugins",
      "mcp__tabnas__describe_plugin",
      "mcp__tabnas__compare_grammars"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__tabnas__parse",
      "mcp__tabnas__test_grammar"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```