# `io.github.sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein-mcp` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein-mcp
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein-mcp
- Version: 0.2.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.sipyourdrink-ltd (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:49:28.527Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Verifies Bernstein run receipts and hash chains; lists the shipped presets and adapters. Read-only.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:27:20.837Z over streamable-http.

**11 tools: 6 change things and 5 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 6 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 5 | 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__bernstein__list_adapters` |
| 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

- **info** The word "credentials" in `verify_delegation_chain` ([credentials-mention](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#credentials-mention))

```untrusted-server-text
The description mentions "credential".

description: "...bound, the link's digest algorithm, the credential (registered, issuer = parent subject, h..."
```

- **info** The word "credentials" in `verify_delegation_chain` ([credentials-mention](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#credentials-mention))

```untrusted-server-text
The input schema at properties.context.properties.now.description mentions "credential".

inputSchema.properties.context.properties.now.description: "Carried for completeness; credential windows are judged at each hop's own ia..."
```

- **info** The word "credentials" in `verify_delegation_chain` ([credentials-mention](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#credentials-mention))

```untrusted-server-text
The input schema at properties.context.properties.credentials.description mentions "credential".

inputSchema.properties.context.properties.credentials.description: "...e, not_after}. Default {} → every hop's credential is unknown."
```


## Changes things (6)

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

### `server_info`

- 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
Identity, version, and request limits for this MCP server.
```

### `verify_agent_manifest`

- 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
Agent Manifest v0.2 conformance checks on one manifest, stateless, no account: schema (vendored agent-manifest.schema.json), profile context, version, canonicalization, COSE envelope signature (Ed25519, key identified by kid in the protected header; ML-DSA-65 is reported unverifiable). Optionally checks that a TRACE Trust Record cites this manifest by digest. Nothing is fetched; resolvers are checked as URIs only. The manifest hash is sha256 over the COSE payload bytes (or RFC 8785 canonical JSON for object input).
```

### `verify_chain`

- 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
Walk bernstein chain rows and recompute every link: journal rows (event_hash), lineage spine entries (entry_hash) or audit events (prev_hmac linkage). The row kind is detected from the fields, or pass `kind` explicitly. Reports the first divergent index. Pass `entries` as the file text (a JSON array or one row per line, as journal.jsonl is written) for byte-exact hashing; a parsed array also works, but then a float spelled 1.0 or -0.0 in the file cannot be told apart from an integer.
```

### `verify_delegation_chain`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- Findings: info credentials-mention, info credentials-mention, info credentials-mention

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
TRACE v0.2 delegation-chain conformance, stateless, no account: index every Trust Record by the RFC 8785 digest of its complete form, start at the leaf, follow delegation.parent_record_hash to the root, and check each hop's signature, the root key against `trusted_root_keys`, the depth bound, the link's digest algorithm, the credential (registered, issuer = parent subject, holder = record subject, window at the hop's own iat) and data_class narrowing under `data_class_lattice`. Classification: provenance-invalid outranks authorization-invalid; an unread link is unverifiable, not broken. Pass `records` as a JSON array or as file text (one record per line or a JSON array).
```

### `verify_receipt`

- 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
Recompute every hash chain a bernstein run receipt embeds (journal, lineage spine, optional audit range), rebuild the signed subject from the recomputed heads, and check the Ed25519 signature with the key the receipt carries. Needs no secret and reads nothing but the receipt. Returns the verdict, the first failing check, one line per check, and the same verdict as a DSSE envelope signed by this verifier's Ed25519 key (public key at keys_url) so the outcome can be kept and re-checked offline.
```

### `verify_trace_record`

- 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
TRACE v0.2 conformance checks on one Trust Record, stateless, no account: schema (vendored trace-claim.json), profile, subject URI, software-only runtime rule, policy digest, public-only confirmation key, the embedded signature (EdDSA, ES256 or ES384 with the key in cnf.jwk), appraisal, delegation link shape and references. Nothing is fetched: resolvers are checked as URIs only. `record_sha256` is the RFC 8785 digest of the complete record, signature included — the value a child hop puts in delegation.parent_record_hash.
```

## Only reads (5)

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

### `explain_receipt`

- The name "explain_receipt" says "explain": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Verify a run receipt and narrate the result in plain language: what the run recorded, which chains recomputed, where the first divergence is, and what an auditor can and cannot conclude without the producing install's keys.
```

### `explain_trace_mapping`

- The name "explain_trace_mapping" says "explain": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
How a bernstein run maps onto a TRACE v0.2 Trust Record: one row per claim with the journal field it is sourced from and the rule that derives it. Pass a run receipt to fill in the rows its embedded journal can answer (subject, iat, model, data_class, policy digest, tool transcript) alongside the receipt's own verdict.
```

### `get_preset`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Every field of one compliance preset as bernstein v3.19.2 resolves it.
```

### `list_adapters`

- The name "list_adapters" says "list": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "drive": it reads files.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The agent adapters bundled with bernstein v3.19.2: adapter name, the binary it drives, the module that implements it.
```

### `list_presets`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The compliance presets bernstein v3.19.2 ships, with the switches each one turns on.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__bernstein__explain_receipt",
      "mcp__bernstein__explain_trace_mapping",
      "mcp__bernstein__list_presets",
      "mcp__bernstein__get_preset",
      "mcp__bernstein__list_adapters"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__bernstein__server_info",
      "mcp__bernstein__verify_receipt",
      "mcp__bernstein__verify_chain",
      "mcp__bernstein__verify_trace_record",
      "mcp__bernstein__verify_agent_manifest",
      "mcp__bernstein__verify_delegation_chain"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__bernstein__list_adapters`: private-data