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opennih MCP

v0.0.9.8

org.opennih/opennih

42 fiscal years of entity-resolved NIH grant data via 14 read-only, provenance-carrying MCP tools.

transport:streamable-http tools:14

Target client

run in your project directory

claude mcp add --transport http opennih https://mcp.opennih.org/mcp

setup guides: Claude Code Claude Desktop Cursor VS Code Zed Windsurf Cline Gemini CLI Grok ChatGPT Claude.ai LangChain

Adds it for this project only. Append --scope user to make it available everywhere. Claude Code docs

source_status

source status

search_grants Read-only

search grants

rank_institutions

rank institutions

get_pi_profile Read-only

get pi profile

get_institution_profile Read-only

get institution profile

funding_trend

funding trend

topic_trend

topic trend

activity_code_distribution

activity code distribution

institution_concentration

institution concentration

mechanism_mix

mechanism mix

ic_topic_cross

ic topic cross

funding_growth

funding growth

search Read-only

search

fetch Read-only

fetch

All 14 tools, one page each

5 prompts you invoke yourself

4 resources you attach as context

Mutating and Read-only are read off each tool's name, not its schema — a hint, not a guarantee. Check the server's own documentation before granting access.