# `net.gamedev/mcp` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/net.gamedev/mcp
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/net.gamedev/mcp
- Version: 1.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: net.gamedev (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:53:46.224Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
GameDev.net
Search and cite GameDev.net forums, tutorials, postmortems, and game-industry news.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:18:55.306Z over streamable-http.

**10 tools: 1 change things and 9 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 1 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 9 | 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__gamedev__get_content` `mcp__gamedev__get_thread` |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | `mcp__gamedev__get_content` `mcp__gamedev__get_shader_portability_report` `mcp__gamedev__get_thread` `mcp__gamedev__search_site` |
| 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.


## Changes things (1)

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

### `get_shader_portability_report`

- The name "get_shader_portability_report" says "get": a word for reading.
- The description's first verb is "run": a word for a change.
- Tag untrusted-input: The description's first sentence says "run" and "web": it reads web pages, which anyone can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Run ShaderLab deterministic E1 portability analysis for a public project and optional three.js, Godot, Unity, or WebGL target.
```

## Only reads (9)

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

### `get_content`

- The name "get_content" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "fetch" and "thread": it reads messages.
- Tag untrusted-input: The description's first sentence says "fetch" and "thread": it reads messages, which other people can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch the full public text of a specific item (tutorial, blog, news, project, portfolio, ShaderLab project, forum topic, canonical answer, or thread digest) using the content_type + id from a search result. Use this to ground deeply after a search. For news_item (aggregated news) this returns GameDev.net's own AI summary and enrichment with a citation link, not the source's full article text.
```

### `get_shader_project`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch one public, published ShaderLab project as structured passes, channel bindings, parameters, annotations, provenance, and confirmed techniques. Source defaults to 20,000 characters and can be bounded up to 100,000.
```

### `get_story`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch one story cluster: its AI summary and key facts, plus a source-by-source timeline of every article covering the story (each with its source and a citation link). Good for "how did this story develop / who reported it".
```

### `get_thread`

- The name "get_thread" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The name "get_thread" says "get" and "thread": it reads messages. The description's first sentence says "fetch" and "thread": it reads messages.
- Tag untrusted-input: The name "get_thread" says "get" and "thread": it reads messages, which other people can write. The description's first sentence says "fetch" and "thread": it reads messages, which other people can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch one GameDev.net forum thread with its posts (plain text), including which reply is the accepted answer.
```

### `list_recent`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the most recent GameDev.net content of a given kind. Useful for "what is new" / roundup queries. Includes the curated canonical answers and "best of" thread digests.
```

### `list_shader_topics`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the human-curated ShaderLab topic taxonomy with optional public project counts and representative examples.
```

### `list_trending_content`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
What is currently trending in game-industry news on GameDev.net. mode="stories" (default) returns deduplicated multi-source story clusters (with aggregated tags, source count, and when the story broke/last updated — use get_story for the full timeline); mode="items" returns individual trending articles. Each result carries GameDev.net's owned AI summary and a source citation. Optionally filter by tag.
```

### `search_shaders`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search public, published ShaderLab projects with structured runtime, topic, difficulty, license, and explanation filters.
```

### `search_site`

- The name "search_site" says "search": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The description's first sentence says "discussion": it reads comments, which other people can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Unified full-text search across all public GameDev.net content — forum discussions, tutorials, blogs, projects, portfolios, and game-industry news. Filter to specific kinds with content_types (e.g. ["forum_topic","forum_post"] for forums, or ["news","news_item"] for news) and order by relevance or date. Returns titles, URLs, excerpts, authors, and ids for follow-up with get_content.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__gamedev__search_site",
      "mcp__gamedev__get_thread",
      "mcp__gamedev__get_content",
      "mcp__gamedev__list_recent",
      "mcp__gamedev__search_shaders",
      "mcp__gamedev__get_shader_project",
      "mcp__gamedev__list_shader_topics",
      "mcp__gamedev__list_trending_content",
      "mcp__gamedev__get_story"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__gamedev__get_shader_portability_report"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__gamedev__search_site`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__gamedev__get_thread`: private-data, untrusted-input
- `mcp__gamedev__get_content`: private-data, untrusted-input
- `mcp__gamedev__get_shader_portability_report`: untrusted-input