# `io.github.npiwho/npiwho` on anlyon.dev

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> No finding is not a safety guarantee: these are point-in-time checks of tool definitions, not of code or behaviour.

- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.npiwho/npiwho
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.npiwho/npiwho
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.npiwho (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/npiwho/mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-25T14:25:41.032Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
NPI Who
US health care providers by NPI, name or phone, with payments, Medicare, OIG and facility data.
```

Scanned 2026-10-25T13:18:07.284Z over streamable-http.

**6 tools: 2 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 | 2 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 4 | 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__npiwho__lookup_provider` |
| 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 (2)

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

### `data_sources`

- 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
Which public files this data comes from, their snapshot dates, and what they do not cover.
```

### `nearby_providers`

- 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
The providers with the same specialty nearest a given provider (by NPI) or a ZIP code and specialty, by distance between ZIP code centres. Up to 12.
```

## Only reads (4)

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

### `list_facilities`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Medicare-certified home health agencies, hospices, hospitals, nursing homes, or HRSA health centers (FQHCs) in a state, optionally one city. Up to 50 rows with page urls; the full list and a CSV are at the state page url.
```

### `lookup_phone`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Providers whose registry practice phone, or a phone they published on a claimed page, is this number. Any US format. Providers who asked for their phone to be withheld are not returned.
```

### `lookup_provider`

- The name "lookup_provider" says "lookup": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "file": it reads files.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
One provider by NPI: the registry record, and what the public files have on them (Open Payments total, Medicare billing, OIG exclusion, Medicare clinician record, facility enrollments, claimed-page details) with the page section where each is. The result's url is the page to cite and to send readers to for the detail.
```

### `search_providers`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find individual providers or organizations by name, optionally within a state. Returns up to 20 matches, best first, each with its page url. Use lookup_provider on a result for the full record.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__npiwho__lookup_provider",
      "mcp__npiwho__search_providers",
      "mcp__npiwho__lookup_phone",
      "mcp__npiwho__list_facilities"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__npiwho__nearby_providers",
      "mcp__npiwho__data_sources"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__npiwho__lookup_provider`: private-data