Cern Opendata MCP Server
Search CERN Open Data, fetch records, files, analysis environments, CMS good-run lists, HLT paths.
Connect it
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
URL: https://cern-opendata.caseyjhand.com/mcpSettings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode
Create connector with URL: https://cern-opendata.caseyjhand.com/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"cern-opendata-mcp-server": {
"url": "https://cern-opendata.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
}
}
}claude mcp add --transport http cern-opendata-mcp-server https://cern-opendata.caseyjhand.com/mcp{
"servers": {
"cern-opendata-mcp-server": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://cern-opendata.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"cern-opendata-mcp-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server@0.2.0"
]
}
}
}claude mcp add cern-opendata-mcp-server -- npx -y @cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server@0.2.07 tools, verified live
cern_opendata_search_recordsread-onlySearch the CERN Open Data Portal's datasets, software, environments, documentation and supplementary records with exact-vocabulary filters and an optional full-text query. The filters are experiment, record type, physics category, keyword, collision energy and type, file format, data-taking year, event count, availability, collection, and LHCb magnet polarity, stripping stream and stripping versio
cern_opendata_get_recordsread-onlyFetch full metadata for 1-20 records in one call, by recid, DOI, CMS dataset path (/Primary/Era/TIER) or documentation slug. Returns the description, run periods, collision and distribution details, related records, a software-environment summary, the license and a ready citation, plus what a record states of its variable dictionary, physics category, pile-up, keywords, and LHCb magnet polarity an
cern_opendata_list_filesread-onlyList one record's files: its file indexes (groups of up to ~1,500 files) with their XRootD URI-list URLs, and per file the XRootD URI, HTTPS download URL, size, adler32 checksum and availability. Without index, returns the record's indexes and its regular files; with index, reads only that index and pages through its files. Files marked on demand sit on tape and must be requested on the record's p
cern_opendata_get_analysis_envread-onlyAssemble what is needed to analyse a record: its container images, CMSSW release and global tag; the condition-data, VM and validated-run records for its run periods; example software that declares it works with the record; and quoted sections of the guides the record links (the first two are fetched). Container images, software and guide code are licensed separately from the CC0 data. Use cern_op
cern_opendata_get_validated_runsread-onlyGet a CMS validated-run (good-run) list, which certifies the luminosity sections that are good for physics in each run. Select it by a CMS collision dataset recid, a validated-run list recid, or a run period such as Run2012B (give exactly one of recid and run_period). Choose the full validation or the muons-only variant, and narrow to a run range; a dataset recid defaults the range to the first an
cern_opendata_search_trigger_pathsread-onlyLook up CMS High-Level Trigger paths by exact name (HLT_IsoMu24) or prefix pattern (HLT_IsoMu*), optionally for one data-taking year. Paths outside the HLT_ family, such as AlCa_EcalPi0, DST_ and DQM_ paths, output modules and HLTriggerFinalPath, are found by their own names, in the case given. Each match is a per-year path record parsed into the primary datasets its title names, the first and las
cern_opendata_list_referenceread-onlyDecode the vocabulary the other cern_opendata tools accept: experiments, record types, collision energies and types, file formats and data tiers, availability states, physics categories, LHCb magnet polarities and stripping streams and versions, identifier forms, query syntax, licensing, and the CMS run periods that have validated-run lists. Static and offline; omit topic for every table.
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