# `io.github.saadvz/hardwaremcp` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.saadvz/hardwaremcp
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.saadvz/hardwaremcp
- Version: 0.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.saadvz (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/saadvz/hardwaremcp-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:46:33.237Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
HardwareMCP
Find MCP servers for ESP32, Arduino, 3D printers, Home Assistant, cameras and other hardware.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:26:55.875Z over streamable-http.

**4 tools: 1 change things and 3 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 | 3 | 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__hardwaremcp__get_server` |
| 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 (1)

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

### `recommend_for_device`

- 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
Recommend the best MCP servers for a specific device, optionally for a goal (e.g. 'monitor prints', 'flash firmware', 'control lights'). Prefers maintained servers with ready client configs.
```

## Only reads (3)

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

### `get_server`

- The name "get_server" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "get" and "note": it reads notes.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Get full details for one server by slug: what it does, requirements, install commands, notes, and the MCP client config snippet copied from its README.
```

### `list_devices`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List every device family in the catalog with how many MCP servers support it.
```

### `search_servers`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search the HardwareMCP catalog of MCP servers for physical hardware (ESP32, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, 3D printers like Bambu/Prusa/Klipper/OctoPrint, Home Assistant, cameras, Zigbee, serial, oscilloscopes). Returns matching servers sorted by GitHub stars.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__hardwaremcp__search_servers",
      "mcp__hardwaremcp__get_server",
      "mcp__hardwaremcp__list_devices"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__hardwaremcp__recommend_for_device"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__hardwaremcp__get_server`: private-data

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T15:05:05.888Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T15:05:05.888Z. No credentials were sent and no tool was called. Values are shown as the endpoint returned them. Method: https://anlyon.dev/methodology#remote-posture

| Fact | Observed |
| --- | --- |
| Reachable | `yes` |
| HTTP status of an anonymous initialize | `200` |
| tools/list served without credentials | `yes` |
| Tools that change things, listed without credentials | `1` |
| Protocol version | `2025-06-18` |
| WWW-Authenticate on 401 | `not observed` |
| resource_metadata in WWW-Authenticate | `none` |
| RFC 9728 protected resource metadata | `none` |
| Authorization servers | `none` |
| Legacy HTTP+SSE transport | `no` |
| Dynamic client registration | `not observed` |
| Client ID metadata documents | `not observed` |

- **warn** Tools that change things, listed to anyone ([unauth-remote-writes](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#unauth-remote-writes))

```untrusted-server-text
The endpoint served tools/list without credentials, and the list has 1 tool that changes things (1 write). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://hardwaremcp.khanex.ai/mcp: tools/list returned 4 tools to an anonymous client, including recommend_for_device (write)
```