# `io.github.toolweather/paycheck` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.toolweather/paycheck
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.toolweather/paycheck
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.toolweather (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/toolweather/paycheck
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:50:51.101Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
PayCheck
Score merchant domain, https URL, or 0x wallet trust before an agent pays. Does not send payments.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:28:15.405Z over streamable-http.

**3 tools: 2 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 | 2 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 1 | allow |

## Findings

- **info** Long descriptions in `check_merchant` ([long-description](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#long-description))

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 2,143 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "...d. If PAY_TO is unset, an over-cap check returns HTTP 402 payment_not_configured."
```

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

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "get_api_key" as not read-only (readOnlyHint: false), and its words say it reads.

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":false,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":false,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "get_api_key" says "get": a word for reading.
```


## Changes things (2)

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

### `check_merchant`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Decide whether an autonomous agent should pay a merchant, host, or wallet. PayCheck returns a deterministic trust score for one target. It does not send money, does not sign transactions, and does not hold wallet keys.

Use this immediately before a payment, a checkout redirect, or a transfer to a new 0x address. Pass the payee as a bare domain (api.openai.com), an https URL, or a 0x address with 40 hex characters.

Do not use this tool to execute a payment. Do not use it to overturn a block. Do not call it again with a reworded category, purpose, or amount to fish for a better verdict: those fields are ignored and are not stored. Trusted is returned only for the published allowlist of known AI and developer APIs, served over https on port 443. A new or random domain is never trusted. A wallet is never trusted. Scoring v1 does not analyze on-chain history. If the URL contains an embedded 0x address, this scores the host only and will not return trusted; pass the bare address to score the wallet.

Arguments: target (required string); amount_usd (optional number, ignored); category (optional string, ignored); api_key (optional pc_live_ key). You may also send Authorization: Bearer or X-API-Key. Omit the key for the anonymous allowance.

Returns: score (integer 0-100), verdict (trusted | unknown | suspicious | block), reasons[], recommended_action (proceed | verify_out_of_band | require_human_review | do_not_pay), signals (host, allowlist, domain age, wallet flags, reason_codes; chain_analysis is always not_in_v1), checked_at (ISO-8601), policy_version ("1").

Free tier: 100 checks per UTC day anonymous, 1,000 per UTC day with a free pc_live_ key or a Toolweather bundle client whose x-tw-bundle-client is hex. A bundle client prefixed anon: stays at 100 per day. The same target for the same caller is idempotent for 60 seconds and does not consume a second check. Over the daily cap, each extra check is $0.001 USDC on Base (eip155:8453) via x402 and the PayAI facilitator. get_quota, get_api_key, docs, and MCP discovery are not billed. If PAY_TO is unset, an over-cap check returns HTTP 402 payment_not_configured.
```

### `get_api_key`

- The name "get_api_key" says "get": a word for reading.
- The server marks it as not read-only (readOnlyHint: false).
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Mint one free PayCheck API key. The key looks like pc_live_ followed by hex and raises the merchant-check allowance from 100 to 1,000 per UTC day.

Use this once when you set up a long-running agent, then store the key and pass it on later check_merchant or get_quota calls. The plaintext key is returned only in this response. PayCheck stores a SHA-256 hash.

Do not call this every turn. Do not call it to score a payee or to dodge a block verdict. Minting is free and is not an x402 check, and it is limited to 10 new keys per caller IP per UTC day. A new key does not change any merchant score. Checks above the free daily cap still cost $0.001 USDC on Base via x402.

Returns: api_key, token_type (bearer), daily_limit (1000), prefix, note.
```

## Only reads (1)

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

### `get_quota`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Show how many free PayCheck merchant checks the current caller has left for the current UTC day.

Use this before a batch of check_merchant calls, or after an HTTP 402, to read the remaining free allowance and when it resets.

Do not use this to score a payee. It accepts no target and it does not consume a check. Do not pay x402 for this tool. It is always free.

Identity matches check_merchant. Anonymous IP: 100/day. pc_live_ api_key (api_key argument, Authorization: Bearer, or X-API-Key): 1,000/day. Toolweather bundle headers x-tw-bundle-secret and x-tw-bundle-client: hex client 1,000/day, anon: prefix 100/day, any other client id 100/day.

Returns: subject_kind, limit, used, remaining, resets_at (next UTC midnight, ISO-8601), billed (always false), policy_version. No x402 charge.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__paycheck__get_quota"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__paycheck__check_merchant",
      "mcp__paycheck__get_api_key"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```