# `io.github.cyanheads/pentest-mcp-server` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.cyanheads/pentest-mcp-server
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.cyanheads/pentest-mcp-server
- Version: 0.2.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.cyanheads (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/cyanheads/pentest-mcp-server
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:28:53.733Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Offline methodology engine for authorized penetration testing, CTF, and security research.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:17:06.350Z over streamable-http.

**7 tools: 3 change things and 4 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 3 | 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 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. | `mcp__pentest__pentest_analyze_response` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

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

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

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


## Changes things (3)

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

### `pentest_encode_payload`

- 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
Transform a payload string through an ordered encoding chain for authorized filter research. Results include the final value, intermediate values, optional decode path and rationale, and detection guidance. All transforms are local; no live probing occurs.
```

### `pentest_generate_payloads`

- The name "pentest_generate_payloads" says "generate": 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
Generate context-specific payload templates for authorized systems. Each template includes its vulnerability category, context rationale, WAF/IDS detection signature, mitigation, optional WAF research note, and optional encoded variant.
```

### `pentest_map_techniques`

- 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
Rank ATT&CK techniques and OWASP test cases against an authorized target profile of technology stack, exposed services, authentication type, and operating system. Results include profile-specific relevance, detection opportunities, mitigations, and associated methodology vectors.
```

## Only reads (4)

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

### `pentest_analyze_response`

- The name "pentest_analyze_response" says "analyze": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The description's first sentence says "analyze" and "http": it reads web pages, which anyone can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Analyze an HTTP response from authorized probing for information leakage, fingerprinting signals, and related exposure. Structured findings cover version disclosures, stack traces, debug headers, internal paths, authentication patterns, CORS configuration, detection signals, remediation, and associated methodology vectors.
```

### `pentest_get_guide`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return an authorized-testing methodology for a selected vector and optional target context. The playbook covers reconnaissance, enumeration, exploitation, and post-exploitation phases with objectives, techniques, detection signals, mitigations, common pitfalls, references, and context-derived tool suggestions across 15 vectors.
```

### `pentest_lookup_group`

- The name "pentest_lookup_group" says "lookup": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Look up a MITRE ATT&CK threat group or software entry by ID, name, or keyword. Results include ATT&CK identity, aliases, type, description, and associated techniques with procedure-level context from public ATT&CK reporting.
```

### `pentest_lookup_technique`

- The name "pentest_lookup_technique" says "lookup": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Look up a MITRE ATT&CK technique by exact ID or keyword. Results include tactics, platforms, description, detection data, public procedure examples, mitigations, related sub-techniques, and dataset version.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__pentest__pentest_get_guide",
      "mcp__pentest__pentest_analyze_response",
      "mcp__pentest__pentest_lookup_technique",
      "mcp__pentest__pentest_lookup_group"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__pentest__pentest_map_techniques",
      "mcp__pentest__pentest_generate_payloads",
      "mcp__pentest__pentest_encode_payload"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__pentest__pentest_analyze_response`: untrusted-input