# `io.github.shawmena-dotcom/zip-data-api` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.shawmena-dotcom/zip-data-api
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.shawmena-dotcom/zip-data-api
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.shawmena-dotcom (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/shawmena-dotcom/product-factory
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:49:20.848Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Ziplore: US ZIP Code API (county, time zone, demographics, radius)
Ziplore: US ZIP to county, FIPS, time zone, Census demographics; radius and city ZIPs. Free, no key.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:34:03.103Z over streamable-http.

**5 tools: 1 do something that can't be undone, 3 change things and 1 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 1 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 3 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 1 | allow |

## Findings

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `zip_distance` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "zip_distance" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "irreversible".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":true}; The input addresses people (input.to): what it sends cannot be taken back.
```


## Can't be undone (1)

Sends, pays, publishes or merges: once done, it cannot be taken back. Claude Code: ask.

### `zip_distance`

- The input addresses people (input.to): what it sends cannot be taken back.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Great-circle distance in miles and km between two US ZIP codes.
```

## Changes things (3)

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

### `city_zips`

- 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
All ZIP codes of a US city, largest population first.
```

### `nearest_zip`

- 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
Reverse geocode a latitude/longitude to the nearest US ZIP code(s), with distance.
```

### `zips_in_radius`

- 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
Every US ZIP within N miles (max 25) of a ZIP or a lat/lon point, closest first, with distance in miles.
```

## Only reads (1)

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

### `zip_lookup`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
City, state, county and FIPS, coordinates, time zone with UTC offset, and Census demographics (population, income, home value, rent) for up to 10 US ZIP codes. Accepts ZIP+4, addresses and ZIPs missing a leading zero.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `zip-data-api`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__zip-data-api__zip_lookup"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__zip-data-api__zips_in_radius",
      "mcp__zip-data-api__city_zips",
      "mcp__zip-data-api__nearest_zip",
      "mcp__zip-data-api__zip_distance"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```