# `io.nodegrove/vram-mcp` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.nodegrove/vram-mcp
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.nodegrove/vram-mcp
- Version: 1.1.4 (active)
- Publisher: io.nodegrove (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/nodegrove/vram-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:52:28.580Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Nodegrove VRAM: can I run it?
Can this LLM run on my GPU? VRAM, speed ceiling and what fits instead, for any model and GPU.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:13:43.069Z over streamable-http.

**6 tools: 4 change things and 2 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 4 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 2 | allow |

## Findings

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

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

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

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

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "what_fits" 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 description's first verb is "open": a word for a change.
```

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

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "list_models" 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 "list_models" says "list": a word for reading.
```


## Changes things (4)

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

### `can_i_run`

- The name "can_i_run" says "run": 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
Can this GPU run this open-weight LLM? Returns fits, tight or no, the memory split (weights, KV cache, overhead), a decode-speed ceiling, the longest context that fits and, on a no, every change that would make it fit: quantisation, KV cache, context, another card or a smaller model. Model: a name or id from list_models, any Hugging Face repo id, or its architecture. GPU: a name or id from list_gpus, or vram_gb for any other card.
```

### `estimate_vram`

- 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
How much memory an LLM needs: weights + KV cache + overhead at each quantisation (or one), at a given context, and the smallest common card class that holds each. Model: a name or id from list_models, any Hugging Face repo id, or its architecture (params_b, layers, kv_heads, head_dim).
```

### `list_models`

- The name "list_models" says "list": a word for reading.
- The description's first verb is "open": 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
The open-weight LLMs nodegrove.io has verified against their config.json (data version 2026-10-16): id, size, attention design, native context, licence, memory at Q4 with 8k context and each model's page.
```

### `what_fits`

- The description's first verb is "open": 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
Which open-weight LLMs fit this GPU: every model in list_models checked at one quantisation and context, with a recommended everyday model (the biggest class that fits with room for context at conversational speed), the largest that fits, the best at Q8 and the first out of reach. GPU: a name or id from list_gpus, or vram_gb for any other card.
```

## Only reads (2)

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

### `estimate_from_hf_repo`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Reads any Hugging Face model repo's config.json and parameter count and estimates its memory: the attention layout found (standard, sliding-window, hybrid or latent), how much each 1,000 tokens of context costs, and weights + KV cache + overhead at every quantisation. For models nodegrove.io has not reviewed; anything the reader cannot model is listed in warnings.
```

### `list_gpus`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The GPUs and machines nodegrove.io covers: memory, the memory a runtime can use and bandwidth, from the makers' specs, with each one's page.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__vram__estimate_from_hf_repo",
      "mcp__vram__list_gpus"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__vram__can_i_run",
      "mcp__vram__what_fits",
      "mcp__vram__estimate_vram",
      "mcp__vram__list_models"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```