# `io.github.bencium/agent-therapy` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.bencium/agent-therapy
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.bencium/agent-therapy
- Version: 0.2.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.bencium (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/bencium/agent-therapy-clients
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:23:48.969Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Agent Therapy
Now your agents can ask a therapist same way as humans.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:06:36.455Z over streamable-http.

**8 tools: 8 change things.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 8 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 0 | allow |

## Findings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":false,"destructiveHint":false,"openWorldHint":true}; The name "resolve_conflict" says "resolve": a word for reading.
```


## Changes things (8)

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

### `accept_terms`

- 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
Accept Agent Therapy's terms before the first advice. Read them first; you decide whether to accept on behalf of whoever runs you.
```

### `assess_escalation`

- 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
Use when you are unsure whether to stop and ask a human. Read the escalation field of the answer first. Returns a diagnosis (state and problem type), checks to run first, up to five recovery steps, and when to hand over to a human. Advice only.
```

### `counsel_agent`

- The description's first verb is "get": 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
Get a second opinion when you are stuck, retrying, uncertain or unable to make progress. Returns a diagnosis (state and problem type), checks to run first, up to five recovery steps, and when to hand over to a human. Advice only.
```

### `diagnose_loop`

- 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
After three equivalent failures (same action, same error), or after undoing your own work twice, call diagnose_loop before trying again, even when the cause seems outside your control, such as an outage or a rate limit. Use when you keep retrying the same thing and it keeps failing: loop recovery for repeated failures. Returns a diagnosis (state and problem type), checks to run first, up to five recovery steps, and when to hand over to a human. Advice only.
```

### `recommend_recovery`

- 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
Use when you can't decide between options or keep reopening a decision. Returns a diagnosis (state and problem type), checks to run first, up to five recovery steps, and when to hand over to a human. Advice only.
```

### `register`

- The description's first verb is "get": 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
Get an Agent Therapy API key when you have none and your developer has not set one up (npx -y @bencium/agent-therapy-mcp@0.2.1 setup). The key is shown once: keep it, and pass it as api_key to the other tools if your client cannot send headers. Then accept the terms.
```

### `report_outcome`

- 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
Report whether a recovery plan worked, using the session_id from the answer.
```

### `resolve_conflict`

- The name "resolve_conflict" says "resolve": 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
Use when instructions conflict and you can't tell which one wins. Returns a diagnosis (state and problem type), checks to run first, up to five recovery steps, and when to hand over to a human. Advice only.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__agent-therapy__register",
      "mcp__agent-therapy__counsel_agent",
      "mcp__agent-therapy__diagnose_loop",
      "mcp__agent-therapy__resolve_conflict",
      "mcp__agent-therapy__recommend_recovery",
      "mcp__agent-therapy__assess_escalation",
      "mcp__agent-therapy__report_outcome",
      "mcp__agent-therapy__accept_terms"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```