# `io.github.QDThead/signal-lab` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.QDThead/signal-lab
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.QDThead/signal-lab
- Version: 1.2.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.QDThead (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/QDThead/signal-lab
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-30T01:17:37.520Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Signal Lab: free financial data sources
Search and export a catalog of free financial data sources, with terms URLs and ingestion skills.
```

Scanned 2026-10-30T01:18:13.804Z over streamable-http.

**8 tools: 1 change things and 7 only read.**

| 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 | 7 | allow |

## Exfil surface

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

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | `mcp__signal-lab__get_entry` `mcp__signal-lab__get_source_urls` |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | `mcp__signal-lab__get_source_urls` |
| 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 (1)

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

### `export_catalog`

- 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
Export the Signal Lab catalog as JSON or CSV: every entry, or only those matching the same filters as search_catalog (no result cap). Optional fields picks columns by catalog field name. CSV has a header row, joins lists with "; " and repeats the catalog notice in the last column. Also returns the static download URLs.
```

## Only reads (7)

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

### `catalog_info`

- The description's first verb is "return": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return the catalog's notice, schemaVersion, generated time, entry count and the download URLs of the full catalog as JSON and CSV.
```

### `compare_entries`

- The name "compare_entries" says "compare": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Place the catalog's fields for up to 5 entries side by side. Values are the catalog's own; a field the catalog does not have shows Not in catalog.
```

### `get_entry`

- The name "get_entry" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "return" and "note": it reads notes.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return one catalog entry by slug, with every field the catalog has for it (limits, coverage, auth, license, licenseNote, source URLs, lastVerified). Get slugs from search_catalog.
```

### `get_ingestion_skill`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return the agent-ready ingestion skill for one data source as markdown: how to get access, the exact request or download, the response format, a Python snippet that loads it into pandas and writes Parquet, limits, known quirks, terms and attribution, and the provider pages it was written from, with quotes. Call it without a slug to list the sources that have a skill so far.
```

### `get_source_urls`

- The name "get_source_urls" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "return" and "doc": it reads documents.
- Tag untrusted-input: The name "get_source_urls" says "get" and "url": it reads web pages, which anyone can write. The description's first sentence says "return" and "url": it reads web pages, which anyone can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return where each entry's data comes from: the provider's site, docs and evidence pages, the license or terms URL with the license note, and the lastVerified date, plus the Signal Lab page. Pass up to 25 slugs, or the same filters as search_catalog (all entries if none). A URL the catalog does not record is left out.
```

### `list_filters`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the values the catalog uses for type, badge, auth, category, license, task, verified and lastVerified, with how many entries have each. Call this first to pick exact filter values.
```

### `search_catalog`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find free and free-to-start financial data sources, tools and models in the Signal Lab catalog by text and by filters (category, type, access badge, sign-up needed, license, task, verified, verified_since; see list_filters for the values). Returns up to 25 summary rows in name order, each with lastVerified and sitePageUrl. Use get_entry for every field of one entry, export_catalog for the whole list, get_source_urls for provider and terms links.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__signal-lab__search_catalog",
      "mcp__signal-lab__get_entry",
      "mcp__signal-lab__compare_entries",
      "mcp__signal-lab__list_filters",
      "mcp__signal-lab__catalog_info",
      "mcp__signal-lab__get_source_urls",
      "mcp__signal-lab__get_ingestion_skill"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__signal-lab__export_catalog"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__signal-lab__get_entry`: private-data
- `mcp__signal-lab__get_source_urls`: private-data, untrusted-input