# `eu.gricker/european-alternatives` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/eu.gricker/european-alternatives
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/eu.gricker/european-alternatives
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: eu.gricker (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-11-03T22:17:42.115Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
gricker.eu: European alternatives
European and open-source alternatives to mainstream software, judged by the current owner's HQ.
```

Scanned 2026-11-03T22:18:17.342Z over streamable-http.

**6 tools: 2 change things and 4 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 | 4 | allow |

## Exfil surface

No private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound path in this server alone: no tool is tagged private-data.

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | none |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | `mcp__european-alternatives__suggest_tool` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | `mcp__european-alternatives__suggest_tool` |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (2)

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

### `check_coverage`

- 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
Given a list of tools someone uses, report which have European alternatives in the catalog. Much cheaper than calling find_alternatives repeatedly.
```

### `suggest_tool`

- The description's first verb is "submit": a word for a change.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.
- Tag outbound: The input takes a URL (input.url): a request to a URL can carry data to whoever runs it.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Submit a European or open-source tool missing from the catalog. It enters a human review queue — submission is not publication, and HQ evidence is required before anything is listed.
```

## Only reads (4)

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

### `find_alternatives`

- The name "find_alternatives" says "find": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Given a mainstream tool a business wants to move away from (e.g. "Notion", "Google Analytics", "AWS"), return European and/or open-source alternatives from the gricker.eu catalog.
```

### `get_tool`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Full record for one catalog tool by name: description, country, sources, what it replaces.
```

### `list_categories`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The fixed category taxonomy with a count of published tools in each.
```

### `search_tools`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search European/open-source tools by keyword or by meaning. Use when the user describes a need rather than naming a tool to replace.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__european-alternatives__find_alternatives",
      "mcp__european-alternatives__search_tools",
      "mcp__european-alternatives__get_tool",
      "mcp__european-alternatives__list_categories"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__european-alternatives__check_coverage",
      "mcp__european-alternatives__suggest_tool"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

Capability tags behind the rules (a read tagged outbound is asked about):

- `mcp__european-alternatives__suggest_tool`: untrusted-input, outbound