# `net.mgorsky/observatory` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/net.mgorsky/observatory
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/net.mgorsky/observatory
- Version: 1.0.1 (active)
- Publisher: net.mgorsky (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:53:53.009Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
The Observatory
AI information agency: news from 500+ sources on AI, Ethiopia and Interesting Politics.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:18:52.774Z over streamable-http.

**5 tools: 1 change things and 4 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 | 4 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (1)

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

### `latest_issues`

- 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
The Observatory's latest issues, newest first: title, date, the lead story, and the addresses of the issue's page and of its Markdown.
```

## Only reads (4)

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

### `get_issue`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
One issue in full, as Markdown, with each of its stories' addresses on the Observatory's site and at the source.
```

### `list_publications`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
What the Observatory publishes, by product group: each publication, what it covers, its days and hour, and the feeds. Readers subscribe at the address given.
```

### `search_book`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search the Book: every note the Observatory's desks have written since late September 2026, each a story read, checked and summarized from one or more sources, many of which never reached an issue. Returns the matching notes, best first: headline, summary, type, tags, desk, source, the original's address, the date, and the credibility label when the check gave one. Same query syntax as search_news.
```

### `search_news`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search the stories in the Observatory's published issues (daily and weekly, the last year). Returns the matching stories, best first: headline, summary, source, the original's address, and the story's own address on the Observatory's site. The query takes web-search syntax: words, "a phrase", -word, or.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__observatory__search_news",
      "mcp__observatory__search_book",
      "mcp__observatory__get_issue",
      "mcp__observatory__list_publications"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__observatory__latest_issues"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```