NIH RePORTER MCP Server (rdwj/nih-reporter-demo-mcp) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. M8ven has not graded it: we have no way to read this server ourselves. No publisher has claimed this listing.

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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.

→ rdwj/nih-reporter-demo-mcp· listed on glama

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Who stands behind it

rdwj

Source: Glama

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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.
// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
configMCP_SERVER_NAMEfastmcp-unified Server name in MCP responses
configMCP_AUTH_JWT_ALG
🔐 secretMCP_AUTH_JWT_SECRET
🔐 secretMCP_AUTH_JWT_PUBLIC_KEY
configMCP_REQUIRED_SCOPES
configMCP_LOG_LEVELINFO Logging level
configMCP_HOT_RELOAD0 Enable hot-reload for development
configMCP_TRANSPORTstdio Transport: stdio or http
configMCP_HTTP_HOST127.0.0.1 HTTP bind address
configMCP_HTTP_PORT8000 HTTP port
configMCP_HTTP_PATH/mcp/ HTTP endpoint path
// quality suggestions

All four hints declared on every tool

3/3 tools missing one or more hints — nih_find_publications (missing: destructiveHint, idempotentHint); nih_get_project (missing: destructiveHint, idempotentHint); nih_search_projects (missing: destructiveHint, idempotentHint). OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

Tool handlers catch errors

Only 0/3 tool handlers wrap calls in try/catch (0%)

Wrap each tool handler body in try/catch and return a structured error response.

Tests exist

No test files found

Add tests that exercise each declared tool.

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// full audit trail
The findings above are the summary. The full trail, every check we ran, each deduction, the network hosts observed and the dependency advisories, goes to verified publishers, along with an alert whenever a new one lands. Verified publishers can also review each finding and dispute it in one click. Publisher corrections have sharpened several of our checks this month, because the maintainer knows the codebase better than any scanner.
// 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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code hash: 68f09b84fb8df89de6ef798f231a572b680097a3b4e534658192d875ad555730
verified: 6/21/2026, 10:18:03 AM
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