CLIO Scientific Catalog MCP Server

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CLIO Scientific Catalog runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 28 Aug 2026.

Operator-owned scientific dataset discovery for remote agents

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Installs / week

not published

Stars

39 open issues

28 Aug 2026

Last commit

from GitHub

BSD-3-Clause

License

Python

What the code does

We read the source, 1 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Runs an external command clio-agentic-search/src/clio_agentic_search/tasks.py:9, clio-kit-mcp-clients/wrp_bin/wrp_client/providers/claudecode.py:30, clio-kit-mcp-clients/wrp_bin/wrp_client/providers/opencode.py:22 и ещё 10

    completed = subprocess.run(command, check=False)

Builds a file path from a variable clio-kit-mcp-servers/arxiv/src/arxiv_mcp/capabilities/download_paper.py:46, clio-kit-mcp-servers/pandas/example_script/create_sample_data.py:200, clio-kit-mcp-servers/paraview/src/paraview_mcp/implementation/paraview_capabilities.py:464

        full_path = os.path.join(download_path, filename)

Executes code built at runtime clio-kit-mcp-servers/hdf5/src/hdf5_mcp/server.py:943

            slice_obj = eval(f"np.s_[{slice_spec}]")

Dumps the whole environment clio-kit-mcp-servers/spack/src/spack_mcp/backend.py:420, clio-kit-mcp-servers/jarvis/src/jarvis_mcp/capabilities/jarvis_handler.py:2223

    baseline = dict(os.environ)

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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CLIO Scientific Catalog — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for CLIO Scientific Catalog?

CLIO Scientific Catalog runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone.

Is CLIO Scientific Catalog open source?

Yes — it is published under the BSD-3-Clause licence, written in Python, 27 stars on GitHub and 39 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.