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Opentargets MCP Server

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Opentargets runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 195 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 10 Oct 2026.

Read-only Open Targets: targets, diseases, drugs and evidence by name or ID. No API key needed.

Installs per day peak 460 · avg 56 · -29% w/w
a month agotoday
195
Installs / week
pypi · opentargets-mcp
19
Stars
0 open issues
10 Oct 2026
Last commit
from GitHub
MIT
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 2 d ago · rules 995398eba69f

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

Claims read-only, but the code runs commands monitoring/cli.py:246
            done = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, timeout=900)
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 monitoring/cli.py:246
            done = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, timeout=900)

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

We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch Opentargets and you get told the day something new turns up.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add opentargets -- uvx opentargets-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "opentargets": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "opentargets-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.opentargets]
command = "uvx"
args = ["opentargets-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "opentargets": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "opentargets-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "opentargets": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "opentargets-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Opentargets — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Opentargets?
Opentargets runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package opentargets-mcp was installed 195 times last week.
How do I connect Opentargets?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls opentargets-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Opentargets?
The pypi package opentargets-mcp was installed 195 times in the last week. Week over week that is -29%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Opentargets open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 19 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.