# `io.github.joelp22-maker/referencesource-rules` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.joelp22-maker/referencesource-rules
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.joelp22-maker/referencesource-rules
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.joelp22-maker (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/joelp22-maker/referencesource-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:37:11.345Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
US federal rules taking effect
Which published US federal rules take effect between two dates, and which CFR parts they amend?
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:32:17.804Z over streamable-http.

**5 tools: 1 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 | 1 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 4 | allow |

## Findings

- **warn** Mentions of other tools or servers in `get_rule` ([tool-shadowing](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#tool-shadowing))

```untrusted-server-text
The description contains "every other tool", wording about other tools or servers.

description: "...rs look like "2026-13685" and appear in every other tool's results."
```


## Changes things (1)

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

### `verify_quote`

- 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
Is this right? Check a claim about a final rule — its effective date, its agency, the CFR parts it amends — against the Federal Register record instead of trusting it. Says whether the claim matches a stored value, appears only in the verbatim quote, or differs (and then what the record says instead). Effective dates are exactly where a confident wrong answer costs money.
```

## Only reads (4)

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

### `get_rule`

- The name "get_rule" says "get": a word for reading.
- Findings: warn tool-shadowing

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Everything this register holds for one final rule: title, agency, effective date, the rule's own DATES paragraph, the CFR parts it amends, its publication date, a link to the rule on federalregister.gov, and a verbatim quote of the Federal Register API record it was read from. Document numbers look like "2026-13685" and appear in every other tool's results.
```

### `list_agencies`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Which agencies have rules coming? Returns each agency in this register with how many rules it has taking effect, the soonest and latest of those dates. Call it to get an agency name exactly as the Federal Register writes it before filtering with list_rules_taking_effect — "Federal Aviation Administration", not "FAA".
```

### `list_rules_amending_cfr_part`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Is anything changing in the part of the CFR I am subject to? Give a CFR title and part — "49 CFR 192", "40 CFR 52", "21 CFR 1308" — and get the already-published final rules that amend it, soonest effective date first, with each rule's DATES paragraph and a verbatim quote. The part is matched whole, so "40 CFR 5" never returns rules about 40 CFR 52.
```

### `list_rules_taking_effect`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
What lands on me, and when? Lists already-published US federal final rules whose effective date falls between two dates, soonest first, optionally from one agency. Each with the rule title, the agency, the CFR parts amended, the document number, the rule's own DATES paragraph and a verbatim quote of the Federal Register record. This is the compliance-calendar question — use it for "what takes effect in Q4", not for searching the Federal Register by topic.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__referencesource-rules__list_rules_taking_effect",
      "mcp__referencesource-rules__get_rule",
      "mcp__referencesource-rules__list_agencies",
      "mcp__referencesource-rules__list_rules_amending_cfr_part"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__referencesource-rules__verify_quote"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```