NIH RePORTER MCP Server

Enables AI agents to search and analyze NIH-funded research projects and their linked publications via the NIH RePORTER API v2, with no API key required.

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// key findings

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3 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour

3 read-only tools verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec

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No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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Open source with a license and README

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

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You'll be asked for 2 credentials: MCP_AUTH_JWT_SECRET, MCP_AUTH_JWT_PUBLIC_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.

configMCP_SERVER_NAME— fastmcp-unified Server name in MCP responses

configMCP_AUTH_JWT_ALG

🔐 secretMCP_AUTH_JWT_SECRET

🔐 secretMCP_AUTH_JWT_PUBLIC_KEY

configMCP_REQUIRED_SCOPES

configMCP_LOG_LEVEL— INFO Logging level

configMCP_HOT_RELOAD— 0 Enable hot-reload for development

configMCP_TRANSPORT— stdio Transport: stdio or http

configMCP_HTTP_HOST— 127.0.0.1 HTTP bind address

configMCP_HTTP_PORT— 8000 HTTP port

configMCP_HTTP_PATH— /mcp/ HTTP endpoint path

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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 3 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: bad5786fb45e9c8ace50c75f69ae47bb6ebc2fc2

code hash: 68f09b84fb8df89de6ef798f231a572b680097a3b4e534658192d875ad555730

verified: 6/21/2026, 10:18:03 AM

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