# `eu.icos-cp/icos` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/eu.icos-cp/icos
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/eu.icos-cp/icos
- Version: 0.2.0 (active)
- Publisher: eu.icos-cp (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-30T17:17:37.660Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
ICOS carbon and greenhouse-gas observations
ICOS atmosphere, ocean and ecosystem greenhouse-gas observations, with citation and DOI per answer
```

Scanned 2026-10-30T17:18:01.438Z over streamable-http.

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

## Exfil surface

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

| 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__icos__aggregate` `mcp__icos__describe_variable` `mcp__icos__estimate` `mcp__icos__find_stations` `mcp__icos__get_citation` `mcp__icos__get_data` `mcp__icos__list_datasets` `mcp__icos__search_variables` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (2)

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

### `aggregate`

- 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.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Statistics over a WHOLE selection, computed on the server: count, mean,
    min, max, sum and standard deviation of one variable, overall or per
    station, year, month or day.  Use this for any average, total, range or
    trend instead of reading rows.  Any size: a selection over 500,000 rows
    is split by time on the server and merged exactly.  `std` is the
    POPULATION standard deviation (ddof 0).  `sum` adds the values as
    stored, which is a total only for values that are themselves totals per
    row: summing a RATE (umol m-2 s-1 per half-hour, gC m-2 d-1 per day)
    or a concentration gives no physical quantity -- for a flux total
    multiply the mean by the period.
```

### `estimate`

- 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.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
How big a selection is -- rows, stations, time span -- without fetching
    it.  Call this before get_data.
```

## Only reads (6)

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

### `describe_variable`

- The name "describe_variable" says "describe": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
One variable in full: names, unit, which dataset, its coverage, how its
    quality flag is read, licence and DOI.  For a multi-dimensional variable
    read through zarr (access 'zarr'), its axes with their labels, the slice
    /query serves (prescribed) and an xarray line for any other slice.
```

### `find_stations`

- The name "find_stations" says "find": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The stations that carry a variable: id, name, position, sampling height,
    country, ecosystem -- near a point (sorted by distance), in a box, by name
    or by country.  The ids are what estimate and get_data take as station=.
```

### `get_citation`

- The name "get_citation" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
How to cite a variable's data: the citation text, licence and DOI from
    its data passport, and -- for a selection (stations, a time window, a
    box) -- every data object it came from, in full.  Data answers carry a
    short citation and only the COUNT of their sources; this lists them.
```

### `get_data`

- The name "get_data" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Observations for one variable, filtered by box, time, station, cruise,
    height and quality control.  Returns at most max_rows rows as a table,
    the total, a download URL for the whole selection, and the citation the
    user must be given with any use of the data.
```

### `list_datasets`

- The name "list_datasets" says "list": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the ICOS datasets: one per data store, with domain (atmosphere,
    ocean, ecosystem), time and space coverage, licence and DOI.
```

### `search_variables`

- The name "search_variables" says "search": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find variable ids in the ICOS catalogue by name, quantity or unit.
    The ids are what estimate and get_data take.  Primary measurements come
    before their companions (standard deviation, value counts, flags).
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__icos__list_datasets",
      "mcp__icos__search_variables",
      "mcp__icos__describe_variable",
      "mcp__icos__get_data",
      "mcp__icos__get_citation",
      "mcp__icos__find_stations"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__icos__estimate",
      "mcp__icos__aggregate"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__icos__list_datasets`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__icos__search_variables`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__icos__describe_variable`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__icos__estimate`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__icos__get_data`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__icos__get_citation`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__icos__aggregate`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__icos__find_stations`: untrusted-input