igvf-portal-mcp

Item: igvf-portal-mcp
Rating: 52
Author: M8ven

Enables AI agents to search, filter, download files, and generate reports from the IGVF Data Portal using natural language commands.

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// key findings

⚠️

Tool descriptions don’t match what handlers do

1 tool describes read intent but its handler mutates — igvf_portal_batch_download (line 382: with open(save_path, "wb") as f:)

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

🔐

You'll be asked for 2 credentials: IGVF_ACCESS_KEY, IGVF_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

🔐 secretIGVF_ACCESS_KEY— No API key for authenticated access (unreleased data)

🔐 secretIGVF_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY— No API secret paired with IGVF_ACCESS_KEY

configIGVF_HOST— No Portal host override, e.g. https://api.sandbox.igvf.org

configHTTPS_PROXY— / HTTP_PROXY No Proxy server URL

confighttps_proxy

configHTTP_PROXY— HTTPS_PROXY / No Proxy server URL

confighttp_proxy

configREQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE— / SSL_CERT_FILE No Custom CA certificate path

configSSL_CERT_FILE— REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE / No Custom CA certificate path

// full audit trail

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commit: 099a384d84471311e460ddfc3ab3ed1145ff9eda

code hash: 7c22113e8feafa51098a9c955eb88e3642f9344b8ee1605c6a9c90eabd01d71e

verified: 6/21/2026, 10:24:16 AM

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