# `io.github.polygraphso/litmus` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.polygraphso/litmus
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.polygraphso/litmus
- Version: 0.36.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.polygraphso (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/polygraphso/litmus
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:45:29.303Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Grade MCP servers A to F with the open behavioral litmus. npm: full toolset; hosted: lookups only.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:26:16.801Z over streamable-http.

**3 tools: 1 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 | 1 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 2 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (1)

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

### `request_grade`

- The name "request_grade" says "request": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Hosted grading is discontinued. This tool returns gone. Existing published grades remain available via check_server / list_servers. To grade a server yourself, run the open harness: npx -y -p @polygraphso/litmus polygraphso-litmus litmus <server_ref>.
```

## Only reads (2)

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

### `check_server`

- The description's first verb is "read": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Read a server's published behavioral grade (A-F) from polygraph.so in under a second; no execution. The pre-flight check before recommending or installing an MCP server. On a miss it returns not_available (unevaluated: neither safe nor unsafe) with next steps.
```

### `list_servers`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Servers with a published polygraph grade, sorted A-first then by ref. Returns up to `limit` rows starting at `offset` (default limit 25, capped at 100 per call); `grade` restricts to one letter. `summary` always covers the full graded corpus (a total plus a count per grade), regardless of `grade`, `limit`, or `offset`.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__litmus__check_server",
      "mcp__litmus__list_servers"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__litmus__request_grade"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```