# `io.github.elyngved/failmodes` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.elyngved/failmodes
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.elyngved/failmodes
- Version: 0.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.elyngved (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/elyngved/failmodes-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:33:23.313Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
MCP server for the Fail Modes taxonomy — a knowledge base of AI system failure modes
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:22:22.094Z over streamable-http.

**4 tools: 4 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 0 | 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 untrusted-input 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. | none |
| 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.


## Only reads (4)

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

### `get_failure_mode`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Retrieve the full structured record for a single failure mode by its ID slug (e.g. 'citation-hallucination', 'sycophancy').
```

### `list_categories`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List all taxonomy categories with their IDs, names, descriptions, and mode counts.
```

### `list_modes`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List failure modes, optionally filtered to a single category by category ID.
```

### `search_failure_modes`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search the Fail Modes taxonomy by symptom text or keyword phrase. Returns ranked matches with id, name, category, and matched context.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__failmodes__search_failure_modes",
      "mcp__failmodes__get_failure_mode",
      "mcp__failmodes__list_categories",
      "mcp__failmodes__list_modes"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```