# `dev.workers.mike-tusa.cronspell/cronspell` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/dev.workers.mike-tusa.cronspell/cronspell
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/dev.workers.mike-tusa.cronspell/cronspell
- Version: 0.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: dev.workers.mike-tusa.cronspell (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-22T06:19:38.622Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
CronSpell
Validate and explain cron expressions; list next/previous run times in any time zone, DST-aware.
```

Scanned 2026-10-22T06:19:55.978Z over streamable-http.

**4 tools: 2 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 | 2 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 2 | allow |

## Findings

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

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "next_cron_runs" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "next_cron_runs" says "run": a word for a change.
```

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

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "cron_runs_between" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "cron_runs_between" says "run": a word for a change.
```


## Changes things (2)

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

### `cron_runs_between`

- The name "cron_runs_between" says "run": 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
List every run of a cron expression between start and end (both inclusive) in an IANA time zone, DST-aware, oldest first. Default limit 20, max 100; truncated is true when there are more. Read-only. Same engine as GET /api/between.
```

### `next_cron_runs`

- The name "next_cron_runs" says "run": 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
List the next (or, with direction "previous", the most recent past) run times of a cron expression in an IANA time zone, DST-aware. Each run has the local time with its UTC offset, the UTC time, unix seconds and weekday. Default 5 runs, max 20; searches up to 50 years. Read-only. Same engine as GET /api/next and GET /api/previous.
```

## Only reads (2)

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

### `explain_cron`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Explain a cron expression in plain English, e.g. "0 9 * * 1-5" → "At 09:00, on Monday through Friday." Also returns notes on cron rules that often surprise people (day-of-month OR day-of-week, seconds field, shorthand expansion). Invalid expressions return isError with the reason. Read-only. Same engine as GET /api/explain.
```

### `validate_cron`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Check whether a cron expression is valid. Returns valid true with the expanded values of every field (minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week, and seconds for 6-field expressions), or valid false with an error code, the field at fault and a message. Detects schedules that can never run (e.g. February 30). Read-only. Same engine as GET /api/validate.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__cronspell__validate_cron",
      "mcp__cronspell__explain_cron"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__cronspell__next_cron_runs",
      "mcp__cronspell__cron_runs_between"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```