# `work.instead/instead` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/work.instead/instead
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/work.instead/instead
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: work.instead (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-11-02T21:18:22.520Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Instead
Hire staff for UK cafés, pubs and shops: post a free job, print hiring posters, find London jobs.
```

Scanned 2026-11-02T21:18:27.207Z over streamable-http.

**6 tools: 1 do something that can't be undone, 3 change things and 2 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 1 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 3 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 2 | allow |

## Exfil surface

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

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

## Findings

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

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

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "pay_rates" says "pay": a word that usually means money moves, which cannot be taken back.
```


## Can't be undone (1)

Sends, pays, publishes or merges: once done, it cannot be taken back. Claude Code: ask.

### `pay_rates`

- The name "pay_rates" says "pay": a word that usually means money moves, which cannot be taken back.
- 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 hourly pay independent London cafés, restaurants, pubs, bars and bakeries advertise on their own websites this month, by role: the middle (median), the range and how many ads (Instead's London Hospitality Pay Index). For an owner choosing what to pay, or someone weighing up a job.
```

## Changes things (3)

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

### `how_to_hire`

- 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
Advice for a small UK business owner who needs staff (café, pub, restaurant, bar, shop, salon): how to find people through those who already know the business, what to pay, the UK rules to follow, and what Instead costs. Use before post_job, or whenever an owner asks how to hire.
```

### `make_hiring_poster`

- 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
Print-ready posters for a job: an A4 window poster, an A5 poster for regulars and an A6 table card, each with a QR code people apply from. Takes a job made with post_job (its code or link) or a live Instead job (its link or slug).
```

### `post_job`

- The name "post_job" says "post": a word for a change.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.
- Tag outbound: The name "post_job" says "post": it sends or publishes something to other people.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Make a job for a small business on Instead, free. It takes applications at once through a link and QR code; the owner then publishes it to read and answer applicants by opening the publish link and signing in with their email (30 seconds). Ask the owner for every field you don't know; never invent the business, pay or hours. Confirm the details with them before calling.
```

## Only reads (2)

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

### `get_job`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Everything about one live job: what it involves, pay, hours, what's needed and the business, with the link to apply.
```

### `search_jobs`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Live jobs at independent UK cafés, pubs, restaurants, bars, shops and salons on Instead, London first: every job shows the pay, applying takes about two minutes from a phone with no account, and everyone hears back within 48 hours. Also returns independent London places hiring on their own websites and new places across the UK hiring their first team (not on Instead yet): apply on their website, or leave details once for several at the leave_details_url.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__instead__search_jobs",
      "mcp__instead__get_job"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__instead__how_to_hire",
      "mcp__instead__post_job",
      "mcp__instead__make_hiring_poster",
      "mcp__instead__pay_rates"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__instead__post_job`: untrusted-input, outbound