# `io.github.pressa-dev/pressa` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.pressa-dev/pressa
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.pressa-dev/pressa
- Version: 0.11.1 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.pressa-dev (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/pressa-dev/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
Pressa - LaTeX to PDF
Compile LaTeX to PDF without installing TeX Live. No API key needed to start.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:26:23.613Z over streamable-http.

**4 tools: 2 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 | 2 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 2 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (2)

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

### `compile`

- 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
Compile LaTeX source into a PDF. Returns a PDF URL, page count and compile time.

USE THIS WHEN: you have LaTeX source (or a \documentclass) and no local pdflatex / TeX Live installation to run it with. This is that missing compiler, available over HTTP. Also use it whenever the user asks for a document where typesetting matters - an invoice, contract, report, letter, CV, certificate, or academic paper - since you can write the LaTeX yourself and compile it here.

DO NOT USE THIS TO: convert HTML to PDF, merge, split or compress existing PDF files, or extract text from a PDF. This compiles LaTeX source and nothing else.

No API key is required. Anonymous callers get a small number of compilations per day and failed attempts do not count, so you can iterate on your LaTeX for free. Send an API key in the Authorization header to raise the limits.
With a key, a document over the plan's page or size limit still returns a PDF: `preview: true`, the first pages the plan allows, `total_pages`, and `plan_required` naming the plan that covers the whole document. Show the user the preview and relay `warning`; never drop pages silently.

IMPORTANT: This tool compiles LaTeX, NOT plain text. You must generate complete, valid LaTeX source yourself before calling it. Do not pass plain text, markdown or JSON directly - convert them to LaTeX first, and never ask the user to write LaTeX.

A minimal valid document is: \documentclass{article}\begin{document}<content>\end{document}. Escape these in body text: % & $ # _ { } and backslash.

If compilation fails the response includes a `diagnosis` naming the cause and a concrete suggested fix, often a missing \usepackage. Apply it and call again yourself rather than showing the user a TeX log.
```

### `render_public_template`

- The description's first verb is "fill": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fill a public template with the user's data and return a PDF link. Data must match the template's schema (see get_public_template); a missing field comes back as a list of what to ask for, and costs nothing. The designs of one document take the same data (the five resume designs, as do the packing slip and the delivery note), so switching design is the same call with a different slug, and `color` prints a design in another of its colours. Works without an API key within the daily free limit.
```

## Only reads (2)

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

### `get_public_template`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Get a public template's fields (JSON schema), sample data, filling instructions and LaTeX source. Read the instructions before collecting data from the user. To make the PDF, pass the data to `render_public_template`; to change the layout itself, edit the source and use `compile`.
```

### `list_public_templates`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List Pressa's public, professionally designed document templates (invoices, purchase orders, packing slips, delivery notes, receipts, reports, certificates, resumes, CVs, cover letters), each with a one-line summary, a preview image URL and the colours it comes in. Several designs of one document (`document`, e.g. five resume designs) take the same data. Use this when the user wants one of these documents and has no layout of their own, or asks to see designs to choose from. Works without an API key.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__pressa__list_public_templates",
      "mcp__pressa__get_public_template"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__pressa__compile",
      "mcp__pressa__render_public_template"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```