# `dev.workers.adamhaleworks.tools/web-research` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/dev.workers.adamhaleworks.tools/web-research
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/dev.workers.adamhaleworks.tools/web-research
- Version: 1.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: dev.workers.adamhaleworks.tools (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:12:25.207Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Adam Hale Tools: Web Research and Open Data
Free web lookups; PDF to Markdown, audio transcripts, screenshots, WHOIS/DNS paid per call via x402.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:59:35.475Z over streamable-http.

**12 tools: 5 change things and 7 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 5 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 7 | allow |

## Findings

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

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "document_to_markdown" 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 "convert": a word for a change.
```


## Changes things (5)

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

### `document_to_markdown`

- The description's first verb is "convert": 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
Convert one document at a public URL to Markdown from its text layer: PDF, Word DOCX, Excel XLSX/XLSM/XLSB/XLS, OpenDocument ODS/ODT, CSV, HTML, XML or Apple Numbers, up to 10 MB, Markdown up to 250,000 characters. Not OCR: scanned PDFs, images, PPTX and encrypted files are refused and not charged. Paid only: $0.004 USDC per file. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
```

### `domain_intel`

- 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
Who a domain is registered with and since when (RDAP: registrar, created, expires, age, status, nameservers, DNSSEC), its DNS records (A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CAA) and email setup (provider, SPF and DMARC policy). No registrant personal data. Paid only: up to 3 domains per call for $0.003 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
```

### `robots_txt_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
Crawl preflight: whether each user agent may fetch each URL under the site's robots.txt (RFC 9309, longest match, '*' fallback), with crawl-delay, the sitemaps robots.txt lists and whether the site publishes /llms.txt. Default agents: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Googlebot, Bingbot, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider and *. Paid only: up to 5 URLs per call for $0.001 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
```

### `seo_meta_tags_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
On-page SEO audit of web pages: title and meta description lengths, canonical, robots/noindex and X-Robots-Tag, H1/H2, hreflang, Open Graph, Twitter card and JSON-LD rich-result checks, with machine-readable issue codes. Free for 1 URL when the free web tool is enabled; up to 3 URLs per call cost $0.004 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
```

### `transcribe_short_audio`

- 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
Transcribe one short audio file (direct public URL to MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC or WebM; one file up to 2 MB and 20 minutes) with Whisper large-v3-turbo, or translate it to English: text, timed segments, WebVTT and detected language. No YouTube or social media pages. Paid only: $0.01 USDC per file. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
```

## Only reads (7)

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

### `page_to_markdown`

- The description's first verb is "read": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Read web pages: returns each page's main content as clean Markdown without navigation, scripts or ads (headings, lists, absolute links, tables, code blocks), plus title, description, language, canonical URL and word count; up to 100,000 characters per page. Does not get past bot walls. Paid only: up to 3 URLs per call for $0.002 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
```

### `rss_to_json`

- The description's first verb is "read": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Read news feeds or blogs as clean JSON: accepts feed URLs or plain site URLs (finds the feed via <link rel=alternate>), normalises RSS 0.9x/2.0, RDF, Atom and JSON Feed to one item schema (title, url, publishedAt, author, categories, summary), up to 100 items per feed. Free for 1 feed; up to 5 feeds per call cost $0.003 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
```

### `sitemap_urls`

- The description's first verb is "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the pages of a website from its sitemaps: finds them via robots.txt or common paths, follows sitemap indexes, reads gzip, text and feed sitemaps, returns URLs with lastmod. Free: up to 2,000 URLs from 12 sitemap files. With bulk=true: up to 5,000 URLs from 20 files for $0.004 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
```

### `tech_stack_lookup`

- The name "tech_stack_lookup" says "lookup": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Detect what a website is built with: CMS, frameworks, analytics, CDN, hosting, email and DNS providers (MX, SPF, DMARC) and a security-header grade, from one fetch of its homepage. Free for 1 domain per call (10 free calls a minute per IP); 2-3 domains in one call cost $0.005 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
```

### `ted_tender_search`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search EU public procurement notices (tenders, contract notices, awards) on TED through the official API v3: keywords, optional buyer country and open-deadline filter, newest first. Free: the 25 newest matches. With bulk=true or page: 100 notices per page, pages 1-50, for $0.002 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
```

### `url_status_check`

- The name "url_status_check" says "status": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Check whether links are alive: HTTP status, every redirect hop, final URL and a classification (ok, redirect, broken, restricted, blocked_by_site, disallowed_by_robots_txt, timeout). HEAD first, GET to confirm errors. Free for 1 URL when the free web tool is enabled; up to 10 URLs per call cost $0.003 USDC. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
```

### `website_screenshot`

- The name "website_screenshot" says "screenshot": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Screenshot one public web page in a headless browser: desktop (1440x900) or mobile (390x844) viewport, PNG or JPEG, returned as an image. Viewport only, no logins or scripts; follows robots.txt and does not get past bot walls; at most one screenshot every 10 seconds across all callers. Paid only: $0.01 USDC per page. Paid calls made without a payment return isError with the x402 v2 PaymentRequired object (amount in USDC atomic units, network, payTo, HTTP endpoint); retry with the signed PaymentPayload in params._meta["x402/payment"]. Invalid input and calls where every item fails are never charged. Fetches follow robots.txt, use the User-Agent AdamHaleTools/1.0 and refuse private or internal addresses.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__web-research__tech_stack_lookup",
      "mcp__web-research__url_status_check",
      "mcp__web-research__sitemap_urls",
      "mcp__web-research__rss_to_json",
      "mcp__web-research__ted_tender_search",
      "mcp__web-research__page_to_markdown",
      "mcp__web-research__website_screenshot"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__web-research__seo_meta_tags_check",
      "mcp__web-research__domain_intel",
      "mcp__web-research__robots_txt_check",
      "mcp__web-research__document_to_markdown",
      "mcp__web-research__transcribe_short_audio"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```