# `io.github.behaviortrees/behaviortrees` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.behaviortrees/behaviortrees
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.behaviortrees/behaviortrees
- Version: 0.1.1 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.behaviortrees (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/behaviortrees/behaviortrees
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-11-03T19:17:39.163Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Behavior Trees
Validate, convert (behavior3 JSON, BehaviorTree.CPP XML) and open behavior trees in a visual editor
```

Scanned 2026-11-03T18:18:25.072Z over streamable-http.

**6 tools: 1 do something that can't be undone, 1 change things and 4 only read.**

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

## Findings

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

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

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "create_editor_link" says "create": a word for a change.
```

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

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

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "convert_tree" says "convert": 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.

### `convert_tree`

- The name "convert_tree" says "convert": a word for a change.
- The input addresses people (input.to): what it sends cannot be taken back.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Tag outbound: The input takes a destination (input.to): what the tool writes goes there.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Convert between behavior3 JSON and BehaviorTree.CPP XML (v4 for ROS 2 Jazzy and Groot2, v3 for ROS 2 Humble), the same way the editor imports and exports. Returns the converted text and any issues (BT.CPP has no equivalent for some behavior3 nodes and vice versa).
```

## Changes things (1)

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

### `create_editor_link`

- The name "create_editor_link" says "create": 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
Make a link that opens the tree in the behaviortrees.com editor in the user's browser, auto-laid-out and editable, with no account needed. The tree travels inside the link (the URL fragment), so nothing is uploaded or stored. The tree must validate without errors. Give the user the returned url.
```

## Only reads (4)

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

### `get_example`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Complete, working example trees (enemy patrol, cooldown-gated attacks, robot navigation with recovery, and more) to learn the format from or start with. Without an id, lists the examples; with an id, returns that tree as behavior3 JSON.
```

### `list_node_types`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The built-in behavior3 nodes a tree can use without declaring them: composites (Sequence, Priority = selector/fallback, MemSequence, MemPriority), decorators (Inverter, Repeater, MaxTime, ...) and leaves (Wait, Succeeder, Failer, ...), with descriptions and default properties.
```

### `read_guide`

- The name "read_guide" says "read": 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
Practical guides from behaviortrees.com/learn as Markdown: what behavior trees are, node types, blackboards, debugging, structuring large trees, and behavior trees in Unity, Unreal, Godot, Python and robotics (BehaviorTree.CPP, ROS 2, Nav2). Without a slug, lists the guides.
```

### `validate_tree`

- The name "validate_tree" says "validate": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Check a behavior tree for errors before using it: missing or dangling children, nodes with two parents, cycles, decorators with more than one child, leaves with children, unknown node names, and BehaviorTree.CPP import problems. Returns valid (true when there are no errors), the trees found, and findings at error, warning or info level.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__behaviortrees__validate_tree",
      "mcp__behaviortrees__list_node_types",
      "mcp__behaviortrees__get_example",
      "mcp__behaviortrees__read_guide"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__behaviortrees__create_editor_link",
      "mcp__behaviortrees__convert_tree"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__behaviortrees__convert_tree`: outbound
- `mcp__behaviortrees__read_guide`: untrusted-input