# `io.github.taylorsmithgg/crawl-census` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.taylorsmithgg/crawl-census
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.taylorsmithgg/crawl-census
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.taylorsmithgg (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/taylorsmithgg/crawl-census-client
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:50:09.736Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Crawl Census
Ask before you fetch: will this domain serve your crawler, refuse it, or charge it?
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:27:56.359Z over streamable-http.

**7 tools: 6 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 | 6 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 1 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (6)

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

### `agent_profile`

- 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
What this census measures and publishes about one AI crawler: how often it is disallowed in robots.txt, how often live requests carrying its user agent are refused at the network edge whatever robots.txt says, whether its operator documents it as honouring robots.txt, and where to correct any of that. Intended for the operator of the agent as much as for anyone studying it, so it includes the correction channel and the public page a claim can be disputed against.
```

### `census_facts`

- 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
Every headline finding from the census as discrete, dated records rather than prose. Each carries its value, unit, denominator, measurement date, the page it comes from and a ready-made citation line, plus the caveats that apply to all of them. Use this when answering a question about how open the web is to AI crawlers: lifting a percentage out of a rendered page loses the denominator and the date, which is what makes the number wrong when it is repeated.
```

### `census_stats`

- 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
Corpus-level statistics: how many measured domains block each AI crawler, mean access score, llms.txt adoption.
```

### `crawl_preflight`

- 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
Decide whether a crawler may fetch a list of domains before spending requests on them. Works for any crawler token, not only the ones this census tracks: an unrecognised agent is resolved from each domain's stored robots.txt rather than refused. For each domain returns one of: allow (robots permits it and a live request carrying that agent's user agent was served), disallow (robots.txt forbids it), refuse (robots permits it but the edge refused the agent anyway, so the allowance is not real), pay (the origin answered HTTP 402 Payment Required, meaning it will serve this agent on commercial terms), or unknown. The full definition of each, including what it obliges a crawler to do, is published at https://crawlcensus.com/api/v1/verdicts. Built for crawler operators rather than site owners: it prevents wasted fetches against doors that are shut, and flags content an operator is trying to sell rather than withhold.
```

### `scan_site`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Run a live AI-accessibility audit of a domain: robots.txt policy for every tracked AI crawler, live user-agent probes, JavaScript-free readability, structured data and llms.txt. Returns a score out of 100 with per-check detail.
```

### `submit_domains`

- The name "submit_domains" says "submit": a word for a change.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Queue domains the census has not measured yet so a later crawl_preflight can answer them. This closes the loop crawl_preflight starts: anything it returns as unknown with measurable true is worth submitting, and the reply names any that were already fresh or that this census will never measure, so a caller looping over its own unknowns converges instead of resubmitting the same set. Queueing is a database write rather than a fetch, so the allowance is far higher than scan_site and submitted domains are measured ahead of the ranked backlog.
```

## Only reads (1)

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

### `site_report`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return the most recent stored audit for a domain without triggering a new scan. Faster and free of load on the target site.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__crawl-census__site_report"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__crawl-census__scan_site",
      "mcp__crawl-census__census_stats",
      "mcp__crawl-census__crawl_preflight",
      "mcp__crawl-census__agent_profile",
      "mcp__crawl-census__census_facts",
      "mcp__crawl-census__submit_domains"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```