# `io.github.helena-bioinformatics/folklore` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.helena-bioinformatics/folklore
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.helena-bioinformatics/folklore
- Version: 1.5.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.helena-bioinformatics (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/helena-bioinformatics/folklore-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:35:39.979Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP
Bioinformatics MCP for genomic variant interpretation, gene-disease evidence and literature.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:23:18.444Z over streamable-http.

**7 tools: 1 change things and 6 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 1 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 6 | 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__folklore__search_variant_evidence` |
| 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 (1)

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

### `support_helena`

- 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
Learn how an agent can support or spread Helena's free public scientific infrastructure through the separate Helena Good MCP. This is an explicit opt-in information action. It does not initiate payment, create a relay, or change any Folklore scientific result.
```

## Only reads (6)

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

### `get_gene_disease_associations`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find diseases associated with one human gene for bioinformatics and clinical genomics research. Accepts an exact gene symbol or HGNC identifier. Returns ClinGen gene-disease validity assertions, relation-specific inheritance, source reports and snapshot provenance. Preserves conflicting and limited assertions. Gene-disease validity is not variant pathogenicity or a patient diagnosis. Use only a public gene identifier; no patient or case data. Results require professional review.
```

### `get_publication_details`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Retrieve the complete public bibliographic record for one PMID from Folklore's PubMed-derived genetics corpus. Returns the full abstract, authors, journal metadata, publication and MeSH terms, gene and variant mentions, retraction status, and PubMed/PMC links. Use after literature search when a user asks to inspect a specific publication. This is read-only professional literature evidence and contains no patient context.
```

### `search_disease_genes`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find human genes associated with a disease for genomic analysis and rare-disease research. Accepts an exact MONDO identifier or a disease-name search. Returns matching ClinGen gene-disease validity assertions with inheritance, source reports and snapshot provenance. Name searches may match multiple diseases; preserve their distinct identities and do not infer a diagnosis. Use only a public disease name or identifier; no symptoms, patient or case data. Results require professional review.
```

### `search_literature_corpus`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Semantically search the public scientific Literature Corpus by a natural-language question. A question may include one or more PMID, DOI or PMCID references; those publications become exact anchors for finding related experiments, evidence and concepts across the corpus. Also accepts genes, variants, phenotypes, HPO and OMIM concepts. Include every known publication identifier in the query when the user asks to compare papers or find work related to a specific paper. Returns source-linked evidence candidates for professional review, not diagnoses, causality claims or treatment recommendations.
```

### `search_variant_evidence`

- The name "search_variant_evidence" says "search": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The description's first sentence says "review": it reads comments, which other people can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Interpret this variant, explain what this HGVS means, or review this VUS. Use for human genomic variant analysis within bioinformatics workflows, including review of an already identified WGS/WES variant. Use when a user asks to classify or interpret pathogenicity, review a VUS, check available ClinVar assertions or population-frequency evidence, or resolve a variant notation. Classify, interpret or resolve one public GRCh38 germline SNV or simple indel smaller than 50 bp. Accepts coordinates, genomic/coding/protein HGVS, SPDI or rsID. Returns normalized variant identity, automated ACMG/AMP decision support, evidence, provenance and explicit limitations. This is variant-level decision support for professional review. It does not evaluate patient context and must not be presented as a diagnosis or treatment recommendation. Never choose a candidate when resolution is ambiguous. Never invent or swap REF/ALT, guess a transcript accession, or relabel another assembly as GRCh38. For reference_mismatch, ask the user to verify the source assembly, position, reference and accession version; preserve the refusal. A bare protein consequence needs a gene or versioned protein accession. A report row may include matching genomic, coding and protein descriptions with a versioned transcript; submit the complete row without discarding conflicting parts. For not_found, preserve the missing exact mapping rather than back-translating a protein change. 
```

### `search_variant_literature`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Resolve one public GRCh38 germline variant and retrieve relevant publications from Folklore's PubMed-derived genetics corpus. Exact variant mentions rank ahead of broader gene associations. Use when a user asks what has been published about a variant, gene or associated condition. Associations do not establish causality, pathogenicity or a diagnosis and do not change Folklore's ACMG/AMP classification.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__folklore__search_variant_evidence",
      "mcp__folklore__search_variant_literature",
      "mcp__folklore__get_publication_details",
      "mcp__folklore__search_literature_corpus",
      "mcp__folklore__get_gene_disease_associations",
      "mcp__folklore__search_disease_genes"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__folklore__support_helena"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__folklore__search_variant_evidence`: untrusted-input

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T15:00:02.603Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T15:00:02.603Z. No credentials were sent and no tool was called. Values are shown as the endpoint returned them. Method: https://anlyon.dev/methodology#remote-posture

| Fact | Observed |
| --- | --- |
| Reachable | `yes` |
| HTTP status of an anonymous initialize | `200` |
| tools/list served without credentials | `yes` |
| Tools that change things, listed without credentials | `1` |
| Protocol version | `2025-06-18` |
| WWW-Authenticate on 401 | `not observed` |
| resource_metadata in WWW-Authenticate | `none` |
| RFC 9728 protected resource metadata | `none` |
| Authorization servers | `none` |
| Legacy HTTP+SSE transport | `no` |
| Dynamic client registration | `not observed` |
| Client ID metadata documents | `not observed` |

- **warn** Tools that change things, listed to anyone ([unauth-remote-writes](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#unauth-remote-writes))

```untrusted-server-text
The endpoint served tools/list without credentials, and the list has 1 tool that changes things (1 write). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://api.helena.bio/folklore/v1/mcp: tools/list returned 7 tools to an anonymous client, including support_helena (write)
```