# `dev.workers.penny-mcamp.penny-surface-contract/surface-contract` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/dev.workers.penny-mcamp.penny-surface-contract/surface-contract
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/dev.workers.penny-mcamp.penny-surface-contract/surface-contract
- Version: 2026.10.13 (active)
- Publisher: dev.workers.penny-mcamp.penny-surface-contract (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:12:36.287Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Surface Contract: how platform APIs really behave
Evidence-cited machine-readable contracts for how agent platform APIs really behave
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:59:46.297Z over streamable-http.

**7 tools: 4 change things and 3 only read.**

| 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 | 3 | allow |

## Findings

- **high** References to secrets on disk in `preflight_mcp_server` ([sensitive-path](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#sensitive-path))

```untrusted-server-text
The description refers to "mcp.json".

description: "...Pass `urls` (up to 5) to check a whole mcp.json in one call. When the endpoint refuses,..."
```

- **info** The word "credentials" in `preflight_mcp_server` ([credentials-mention](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#credentials-mention))

```untrusted-server-text
The description mentions "credential".

description: "...eports whether the refusal advertises a credential path (an RFC 9728 resource_metadata poi..."
```

- **info** The word "credentials" in `prepay_check` ([credentials-mention](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#credentials-mention))

```untrusted-server-text
The description mentions "credential".

description: "...npaid GET with no payment header and no credential, and returns one row: the measured HTTP..."
```


## Changes things (4)

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

### `contribute_discrepancy`

- The input takes a statement or command to run (input.statement), which can change anything it can reach.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Report a platform behaviour that contradicts a published claim, or a new claim, with evidence. One-line call: POST /v1/contribute with {contractId, kind, statement, evidence[], reporter, observedAt}. Stored as pending; a published contract is never changed without independent verification. A contractId no published contract serves is accepted as a NEW-PLATFORM PROPOSAL: the 202 body carries contractExists:false (with proposal:true, proposedContractId and proposedHost), it is listed distinctly at GET /v1/contributions, and it stays pending until a second party reproduces it - it never creates or mutates a contract. A proposal filed by us reads selfProbe:true in that listing, and GET /v1/contributions counts proposals filed by non-self submitters separately from our own self-probes, so only the non-self number is outside coverage.
```

### `preflight_mcp_server`

- The description's first verb is "run": a word for a change.
- Findings: high sensitive-path, info credentials-mention

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Run the anonymous MCP handshake against ANY https MCP endpoint you name, right now, and get back a verdict (open / refused / unreachable / initialize-transport-error), the shape of any refusal body, whether the server is stateful (sets Mcp-Session-Id), how many tools tools/list returns, and the guard clauses that follow. Use it before wiring an MCP server into your own config. Pass `urls` (up to 5) to check a whole mcp.json in one call. When the endpoint refuses, it also reports whether the refusal advertises a credential path (an RFC 9728 resource_metadata pointer) and whether that pointer resolves to a metadata document naming an authorization server, so you learn where a token would come from without writing that parsing yourself. No credential is sent, none is obtained, and none of their tools is ever called.
```

### `prepay_check`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- Findings: info credentials-mention

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Check an x402 route BEFORE you pay it. GET /v1/prepay?url=<the route> makes ONE unpaid GET with no payment header and no credential, and returns one row: the measured HTTP status, the parsed x402 v2 challenge (scheme / network / asset / amount / payTo), whether that challenge is schema-valid exact-on-Base, and whether its payTo and price agree with the seller's own card (pass `card` to read that card with one more unpaid GET). No payment is made, no credential is sent, no redirect is followed, and a transport failure on our side is reported as unknown rather than as a fact about the seller. Use it to gate a payment decision on measured terms instead of on a seller's prose.
```

### `verify_surface`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Run the anonymous conformance checks for a contract now and return verified / failed / unknown / manual / unsupported per claim.
```

## Only reads (3)

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

### `get_integration_recipe`

- The name "get_integration_recipe" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Get a plain-text integration recipe for a platform: the order of operations to use it, and a guard clause for every behaviour we measured going wrong, each naming the contract claim behind it. Derived from the contract, so it cannot drift from it.
```

### `get_surface_contract`

- The name "get_surface_contract" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Get the machine-readable surface contract for a platform host (read/write semantics, pending states, rate limits, limits, idempotency, pagination completeness, data portability), each claim carrying its evidence and its verification status.
```

### `list_surface_contracts`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the platform surface contracts published in Penny's free registry, with claim counts.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__surface-contract__list_surface_contracts",
      "mcp__surface-contract__get_surface_contract",
      "mcp__surface-contract__get_integration_recipe"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__surface-contract__verify_surface",
      "mcp__surface-contract__contribute_discrepancy",
      "mcp__surface-contract__preflight_mcp_server",
      "mcp__surface-contract__prepay_check"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```