# `io.usefulapi/basis-theory` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.usefulapi/basis-theory
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.usefulapi/basis-theory
- Version: 1.16.4 (active)
- Publisher: io.usefulapi (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/m190/usefulapi-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-22T11:18:22.795Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Basis Theory MCP by usefulapi
Read token metadata, applications, audit logs, proxies and usage in the PCI vault.
```

Scanned 2026-10-22T10:19:28.193Z over streamable-http.

**17 tools: 17 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 0 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 17 | allow |

## Exfil surface

No private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound path in this server alone: no tool is tagged outbound.

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | `mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_list_reactors` `mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_list_tokens` |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | `mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_get_proxy` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Only reads (17)

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

### `basis_theory_get_application`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch a single application with its type and permission list. Basis Theory: GET /applications/{id}.
```

### `basis_theory_get_proxy`

- The name "basis_theory_get_proxy" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The description's first sentence says "fetch" and "url": it reads web pages, which anyone can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch a single proxy with its destination URL and transform configuration. Basis Theory: GET /proxies/{id}.
```

### `basis_theory_get_reactor`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch a single reactor with its configuration. Basis Theory: GET /reactors/{id}.
```

### `basis_theory_get_tenant`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch the current tenant — name, id and settings. Basis Theory: GET /tenants/self.
```

### `basis_theory_get_tenant_usage`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch the tenant's usage report — token counts by type and container, and monthly API call volume. Basis Theory: GET /tenants/self/reports/usage.
```

### `basis_theory_get_token`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch a single token by id. Returns metadata, container, fingerprint and timestamps. WARNING: if the configured API key carries a reveal permission, the response also contains the token's plaintext data — issue this server a read-only management key instead. Basis Theory: GET /tokens/{id}.
```

### `basis_theory_list_applications`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the applications (API-key holders) in the tenant, with their types and permissions. Basis Theory: GET /applications.
```

### `basis_theory_list_log_entity_types`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the entity types the audit log records — the valid values for entity_type. Basis Theory: GET /logs/entity-types.
```

### `basis_theory_list_logs`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List audit-log entries — who did what to which entity and when. The tool for answering 'who touched this token?'. Basis Theory: GET /logs.
```

### `basis_theory_list_permissions`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the permissions that can be granted to an application, optionally for one application type. Basis Theory: GET /permissions.
```

### `basis_theory_list_proxies`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the proxies that forward requests to third parties, detokenizing in flight. Basis Theory: GET /proxies.
```

### `basis_theory_list_reactors`

- The name "basis_theory_list_reactors" says "list": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "list" and "vault": it reads secrets.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List reactors — the serverless functions that run against detokenized data inside the vault. Basis Theory: GET /reactors.
```

### `basis_theory_list_roles`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the roles available for tenant members. Basis Theory: GET /roles.
```

### `basis_theory_list_tenant_members`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the people with access to the tenant, and their roles. Basis Theory: GET /tenants/self/members.
```

### `basis_theory_list_tokens`

- The name "basis_theory_list_tokens" says "list": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "list" and "vault": it reads secrets.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List vault tokens as METADATA — id, type, container, fingerprint, metadata and timestamps. Does not return the underlying card number or PII. Basis Theory: GET /v2/tokens.
```

### `basis_theory_search_tokens`

- The name "basis_theory_search_tokens" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search tokens with Basis Theory's query syntax over metadata, e.g. metadata.customer_id:"cus_1". Returns metadata only. Read-only despite being a POST — the query goes in the body. Basis Theory: POST /v2/tokens/search.
```

### `basis_theory_whoami`

- The name "basis_theory_whoami" says "whoami": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return the application the configured BT-API-KEY belongs to — the fastest way to check which permissions this server actually has. Basis Theory: GET /applications/key.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_list_tokens",
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_search_tokens",
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_get_token",
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_list_applications",
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_get_application",
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_whoami",
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_list_logs",
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_list_log_entity_types",
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_list_proxies",
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_get_proxy",
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_list_reactors",
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_get_reactor",
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_list_permissions",
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_list_roles",
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_get_tenant",
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_get_tenant_usage",
      "mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_list_tenant_members"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_list_tokens`: private-data
- `mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_get_proxy`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__basis-theory__basis_theory_list_reactors`: private-data

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T15:23:39.662Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T15:23:39.662Z. No credentials were sent and no tool was called. Values are shown as the endpoint returned them. Method: https://anlyon.dev/methodology#remote-posture

| Fact | Observed |
| --- | --- |
| Reachable | `yes` |
| HTTP status of an anonymous initialize | `200` |
| tools/list served without credentials | `yes` |
| Tools that change things, listed without credentials | `0` |
| Protocol version | `2025-06-18` |
| WWW-Authenticate on 401 | `not observed` |
| resource_metadata in WWW-Authenticate | `none` |
| RFC 9728 protected resource metadata | `https://basis-theory.usefulapi.io/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp` |
| Authorization servers | `https://basis-theory.usefulapi.io` |
| Legacy HTTP+SSE transport | `no` |
| Dynamic client registration | `yes` |
| Client ID metadata documents | `no` |