# `io.github.theluckystrike/puzzle-maker` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.theluckystrike/puzzle-maker
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.theluckystrike/puzzle-maker
- Version: 1.0.1 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.theluckystrike (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-22T06:20:05.594Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
GridSmith Puzzle Maker
Crossword, word search, sudoku
```

Scanned 2026-10-22T06:20:54.997Z over streamable-http.

**3 tools: 3 change things.**

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

## Findings

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

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

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "generate_crossword" says "generate": a word for a change.
```

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

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

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "generate_word_search" says "generate": a word for a change.
```

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

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

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":false,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "generate_sudoku" says "generate": a word for a change.
```


## Changes things (3)

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

### `generate_crossword`

- The name "generate_crossword" says "generate": a word for a change.
- 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
Use this when the user wants a crossword puzzle (crossword maker, crossword puzzle maker, crossword for a class or a vocabulary list) built from answers and clues. Builds a valid interlocking grid with standard numbering and Across/Down clue lists, reports any answers that could not be placed, shows a playable crossword, and returns a printable PDF with an answer key. Needs 4-40 answer-and-clue pairs; if the user gives only words, write a short clue for each first. Answers are reduced to letters A-Z. Does not solve existing crosswords or answer single clues, and does not make symmetric newspaper-style grids.
```

### `generate_sudoku`

- The name "generate_sudoku" says "generate": a word for a change.
- 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
Use this when the user wants a new sudoku puzzle to play or print (sudoku generator, printable sudoku with answers, easy sudoku for kids, hard sudoku). Generates a classic 9x9 sudoku at easy, medium or hard difficulty, checked by a solver for a single solution, playable in the chat with pencil notes, plus a printable PDF with the answer key. Does not solve a sudoku the user already has, explain solving strategies, or make 4x4, 6x6 or variant sudoku.
```

### `generate_word_search`

- The name "generate_word_search" says "generate": a word for a change.
- 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
Use this when the user wants a word search puzzle (word find, word search maker, printable word search for kids or a class) from a list of words. Accepts 5-40 words for a letter grid: right and down for easy, adding diagonals for medium, all 8 directions including backwards for hard; checks placed words for duplicate occurrences and reports words left out. Shows a playable puzzle and returns a printable PDF with an answer key. Not for crosswords (use generate_crossword) and does not find words in a grid the user already has.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__puzzle-maker__generate_crossword",
      "mcp__puzzle-maker__generate_word_search",
      "mcp__puzzle-maker__generate_sudoku"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```