# `io.github.gowinder/eldertongue` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.gowinder/eldertongue
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.gowinder/eldertongue
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.gowinder (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/gowinder/eldertongue-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-11-05T10:18:02.297Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Eldertongue
Old English dictionary over MCP: headwords, inflection tables, form ID, Beowulf citations.
```

Scanned 2026-11-05T10:18:23.048Z over streamable-http.

**5 tools: 3 change things and 2 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 | 2 | allow |

## Exfil surface

No private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound path in this server alone: no tool is tagged untrusted-input or outbound.

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | `mcp__eldertongue__inflect` |
| 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.


## Changes things (3)

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

### `beowulf_occurrences`

- 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
Given an Old English headword, return every line of Bēowulf that carries it: the line numbers, the line text, the spellings used, and a link to the poem line on eldertongue.com.
```

### `english_to_old_english`

- 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
Given a modern English word (e.g. king, ship, write), list Old English headwords whose definitions mention it, with a score, part of speech, gloss, and the eldertongue.com page URL for each.
```

### `identify_form`

- 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
Given any inflected form (e.g. cyninges, band, gōdra), return the headwords it could belong to and the grammatical reading (case, number, gender, person, tense, mood…) of each.
```

## Only reads (2)

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

### `inflect`

- The description's first verb is "return": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "return" and "table": it reads databases.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return the full declension (nouns/adjectives) or conjugation (verbs) table for an Old English headword. Every word form carries an anchor URL into the eldertongue.com entry page.
```

### `lookup_headword`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Look up an Old English headword (macrons optional) in the eldertongue dictionary. Returns senses, IPA, syllables, part of speech, gender, noun declension / verb class, etymology, and the eldertongue.com page URL.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__eldertongue__lookup_headword",
      "mcp__eldertongue__inflect"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__eldertongue__identify_form",
      "mcp__eldertongue__english_to_old_english",
      "mcp__eldertongue__beowulf_occurrences"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__eldertongue__inflect`: private-data