# `io.github.The-825/counselorai` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.The-825/counselorai
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.The-825/counselorai
- Version: 1.2.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.The-825 (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:21:44.698Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
CounselorAI
College-access writing and financial-aid analysis tools for counselors, students, and families.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:08:57.768Z over streamable-http.

**13 tools: 1 do something that can't be undone, 11 change things and 1 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 1 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 11 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 1 | 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__counselorai__scholarship` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | `mcp__counselorai__rec` |

## Findings

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `aid` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "aid" as not read-only (readOnlyHint: false), and its words say it reads.

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":false,"destructiveHint":false,"openWorldHint":false}; The description's first verb is "explain": a word for reading.
```

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `scholarship` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "scholarship" as not read-only (readOnlyHint: false), and its words say it reads.

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":false,"destructiveHint":false,"openWorldHint":false}; The description's first verb is "search": a word for reading.
```

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `quote_call` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "quote_call" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true}; The name "quote_call" says "call": a word for a change.
```


## Can't be undone (1)

Sends, pays, publishes or merges: once done, it cannot be taken back. Claude Code: ask.

### `rec`

- The input addresses people (input.recipient): what it sends cannot be taken back.
- Tag outbound: The input takes a destination (input.recipient): what the tool writes goes there.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Draft a letter of recommendation from counselor notes. Call this to WRITE a letter. To critique one that already exists, call letterlens instead, which is much cheaper. Runs the same 5-step pipeline as appeal.

Cost: about 369 credits (~$0.369) per call.
```

## Changes things (11)

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

### `account_balance`

- 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
Free. Returns the credits left on this API key. Call it before a long run of billed calls.
```

### `aid`

- The description's first verb is "explain": a word for reading.
- The server marks it as not read-only (readOnlyHint: false).
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Explain what a family is likely to see across a list of schools and why, in plain language. An explanation for a counselor to walk a family through, never an official determination, and the output says so.

Cost: about 73 credits (~$0.073) per call.
```

### `appeal`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Draft a financial aid appeal letter to a college financial aid office. Call this when a family needs to ask for a review of an award: income dropped, an expense appeared, another school offered more, or the FAFSA was wrong. Returns the letter, not advice on whether to appeal. Runs a 5-step drafting pipeline, so it is the most expensive tool here and the slowest, typically 30 to 60 seconds.

Cost: about 353 credits (~$0.353) per call.
```

### `awardlens`

- 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
Break down one to three financial aid award letters: what is grant, what is loan, what is work-study that has to be earned, what the supported net price is, and what renewal conditions are buried in the language. Identifies missing facts and questions for the aid office. With more than one letter it compares them side by side. Read-only.

Cost: about 173 credits (~$0.173) per call.
```

### `fafsa`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Produce a FAFSA action checklist for one student, keyed to their grade, dependency status and income band. Answers the process question a family actually has: what do we do, in what order, by when. Does not compute an award.

Cost: about 87 credits (~$0.087) per call.
```

### `humanize`

- 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
Rewrite reader-facing prose so it sounds direct, specific, and personal without changing facts or inventing a voice. Use it for outreach, emails, letters, posts, and narrative copy. It preserves quoted text and checks the result against the source. It does not evade or promise to beat AI detectors. Do not use it for code, SQL, JSON, legal text, or technical specifications.

Cost: about 413 credits (~$0.413) per call.
```

### `profile`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Turn raw counselor notes into a structured student profile. Run this first when working one student across several tools: it is cheap, and its output is good input for the relationship, traits and story fields on rec, or keyDetails on appeal.

Cost: about 87 credits (~$0.087) per call.
```

### `quote_call`

- The name "quote_call" says "call": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Free. Validates the input for a tool and returns the exact credit hold a real call would take at your price, plus whether your balance covers it. Use it to budget before a billed call or to lint an input for free.
```

### `revision`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Apply one instruction to an existing letter and return the revised text. Pair it with letterlens: review to find the problems, revise to fix them. Changes only what the instruction asks for.

Cost: about 97 credits (~$0.097) per call.
```

### `scholarship`

- The description's first verb is "search": a word for reading.
- The server marks it as not read-only (readOnlyHint: false).
- Tag untrusted-input: The description's first sentence says "search" and "review": it reads comments, which other people can write.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search for current scholarship pages to review. A page in the result is a research lead, not a verified match. Confirm program terms, deadline, and student eligibility on the sponsor page before advising the student. Live web search makes this slower and costlier than the other analysis tools.

Cost: about 165 credits (~$0.165) per call.
```

### `translate`

- 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
Translate counselor-facing output into a family's language, holding the financial aid terms in English on purpose. FAFSA, Pell, SAI, COA and the loan names stay untranslated so a family can match what the school actually sends them against what they were told. Read-only.

Cost: about 173 credits (~$0.173) per call.
```

## Only reads (1)

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

### `letterlens`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Analyze a finished recommendation letter and return specific fixes: what is vague, what is asserted without evidence, what reads as generated. Read-only and far cheaper than drafting. Use it to critique a draft, not to rewrite one, and use revision to apply the fixes.

Cost: about 93 credits (~$0.093) per call.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__counselorai__letterlens"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__counselorai__appeal",
      "mcp__counselorai__rec",
      "mcp__counselorai__awardlens",
      "mcp__counselorai__fafsa",
      "mcp__counselorai__aid",
      "mcp__counselorai__scholarship",
      "mcp__counselorai__profile",
      "mcp__counselorai__revision",
      "mcp__counselorai__translate",
      "mcp__counselorai__humanize",
      "mcp__counselorai__account_balance",
      "mcp__counselorai__quote_call"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__counselorai__rec`: outbound
- `mcp__counselorai__scholarship`: untrusted-input