# `uk.co.openindex/open-index` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/uk.co.openindex/open-index
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/uk.co.openindex/open-index
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: uk.co.openindex (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:55:32.533Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Open Index
UK public data by area: house prices, crime, deprivation, schools and more, each figure cited.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:21:29.172Z over streamable-http.

**7 tools: 7 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 | 7 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Only reads (7)

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

### `compare_places`

- The name "compare_places" says "compare": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Two UK areas of the same level side by side on the same published figures, each with its own period and source. Key figures by default.
```

### `fetch`

- The name "fetch" says "fetch": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Read one UK area's overview figures by its canonical page path. Includes periods, sources, licences, gaps and citation links at the published level of detail.
```

### `get_place`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Published figures for one UK area: key figures by default, or every figure in one topic. Each figure has its period, publication date, rank, comparisons, source and a link to the figure on its page.
```

### `get_ranking`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Councils ranked on one measure across the UK, a nation or an English region, for the latest period. Measures each nation makes its own way (such as deprivation) are ranked within one nation only.
```

### `lookup_postcode`

- The name "lookup_postcode" says "lookup": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The areas a Great Britain postcode sits in (council, constituency, ward, neighbourhood and more) with their codes and pages. A district (E8) or sector (E8 1) gives its councils. Northern Ireland postcodes are not available.
```

### `search`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find UK area overview documents by place name for research, with canonical page paths, titles and citation URLs. Great Britain postcodes identify their published area. No Northern Ireland postcodes.
```

### `search_places`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find UK places (nations, regions, councils, constituencies, towns, wards, neighbourhoods) and postcodes by name, with each one's official code, level and page URL. Also lists matching data layers.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__open-index__search_places",
      "mcp__open-index__get_place",
      "mcp__open-index__get_ranking",
      "mcp__open-index__compare_places",
      "mcp__open-index__lookup_postcode",
      "mcp__open-index__search",
      "mcp__open-index__fetch"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```