# `io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp
- Version: 0.1.13 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.99blakeD99 (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (pypi)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/99blakeD99/the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness-mcp-files
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-28T18:17:39.495Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
MCP server for FCA Handbook compliance analysis with verbatim citations.
```

Scanned 2026-10-28T18:18:07.722Z over streamable-http.

**1 tool: 1 change things.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 1 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 0 | allow |

## Exfil surface

No private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound path in this server alone: no tool is tagged private-data or untrusted-input 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. | none |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

- **info** Long descriptions in `evaluate_fca_handbook_applicability` ([long-description](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#long-description))

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 4,067 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "...efining" above for when to switch and why to confirm with the user first."
```


## Changes things (1)

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

### `evaluate_fca_handbook_applicability`

- The name "evaluate_fca_handbook_applicability" says "evaluate": a word for a change.
- Findings: info long-description

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Evaluate which FCA Handbook entries apply to a situation as input by the user, using the Metis FCA Handbook AI Harness.

Calls a live compliance reasoning run, billed to the configured account.
Use for questions involving the FCA Handbook, including authorisation, permissions, or obligations for a specific firm/product/service.

This call takes 60-120 seconds in 'quick' mode and 90-120 seconds in 'full' mode, and the longest
stretch, the main reasoning step (node 6), shows nothing new on the
user's screen, so it can look as if the call has crashed. Before you call
the tool, always tell the user in plain words that the Harness is about
to do substantial reasoning work, that this takes a minute or two, and
that it has not crashed if the screen is quiet. Do
not go silent. The Harness attempts to stream progress messages as each
reasoning node completes - if you receive them, relay each one to the
user as it arrives — they contain genuine detail, not filler.

Billing rule: every call is a separate charge. After a result arrives,
never start another call, whether 'quick' or 'full', in the same turn or
without the user's explicit yes to that specific further run, even when
the refinement suggestions make another pass look clearly worthwhile.

First call: use analysis_mode='quick'. Before calling, check whether you
already have (from this conversation, documents you were given, or other
tools) grounded answers to these six things — the specific compliance
question, the product/service, who is providing it (platform/adviser/
bank/etc.), its key features, the target market (retail/institutional/
professional/customer segment), and what data it handles. If you are missing more than
one or two, ask the user for them first rather than calling with thin
input. Every call is billed at a flat rate regardless of input quality,
so a vague call incurs unnecessary cost.

The result
includes refinement_suggestions — gaps the Harness could not resolve
from user_input alone, typically subtler than the six basics above (e.g.
a regulatory edge case, not a missing fact you could have just asked
for). For each suggestion worth pursuing, get the grounded information —
retrieve it from this conversation, documents you were given, or other
tools if you already have it; otherwise ask the user directly. Do not
speculate or infer plausible-sounding detail you do not actually have —
that reintroduces the hallucination risk this Harness exists to avoid,
one level up.

Refining (second call onward): use analysis_mode='full'. Either way, before calling again, stop and ask the user
whether they want a further 'full' pass with the refined input, saying
that it is a further charge, and wait for their answer — never call
again unilaterally, and do not just list the gaps and stop.
Repeat this pattern for further rounds if the new result still leaves
suggestions worth resolving.

The result's citations field contains verbatim quotes from the FCA
Handbook — this is a core part of what the Harness offers, not
generative invention, and distinct from the summary/obligations text. They can best be viewed as an Appendix.
Citations can be long, so ask the user whether they want the relevant
verbatim citations included, rather than omitting them by default as
mere detail.

Args:
    user_input: Everything together as one piece of text (up to 5000
        characters) — the specific compliance question, the
        product/service, who is providing it, its key features, the
        target market, and what data it handles. On later rounds, refine
        all six using existing chat context and whatever additional
        detail later rounds have gathered. See "First call" and
        "Refining" above.
    analysis_mode: 'quick' for the first call (default, ~60-120
        seconds); 'full' (~90-120 seconds) for refined calls after the first —
        detailed conditional reasoning: conditions, interactions
        between rules, and second-order implications. See "Refining"
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```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__the-metis-fca-handbook-ai-harness__evaluate_fca_handbook_applicability"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```