# `io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.pratikmehkarkar (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:45:36.225Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Decodes US VINs and looks up open NHTSA safety recall campaigns for a vehicle.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:33:37.788Z over streamable-http.

**2 tools: 1 change things and 1 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 | 1 | 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.

### `decode_vin`

- 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
Decode a 17-character US vehicle VIN into make, model, year, body class, engine cylinders, fuel type, drive type, and assembly plant country, using the NHTSA vPIC database. Covers US-market vehicles built from 1981 onward (the 17-character VIN standard); pre-1981 and some foreign-market vehicles may return partial or no data. Decoded fields are manufacturer-submitted and individual fields may be missing even for a successfully decoded VIN.
```

## Only reads (1)

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

### `check_recalls`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List open safety recall campaigns for a vehicle by VIN, using the NHTSA Recalls database. Decodes the VIN internally to get make/model/year, then looks up campaigns for that vehicle configuration. Important: results are recall campaigns issued for the make/model/year configuration — this does NOT confirm whether this specific VIN's vehicle was actually repaired at a dealer. Always describe results as 'open recall campaigns for this vehicle,' never as whether the car 'is' or 'isn't' fixed.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__vin-recall__check_recalls"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__vin-recall__decode_vin"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```