# cern-opendata-mcp-server MCP Server

Search CERN Open Data, fetch records, files, analysis environments, CMS good-run lists, HLT paths.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## At a glance

**Source code:** [Open repository](https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server)

**GitHub popularity:** 1 stars on [cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server](cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server), recorded 2026-10-02.

## Status

Pod has not dialled cern-opendata-mcp-server yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `@cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cern-opendata-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

A hosted endpoint at `https://cern-opendata.caseyjhand.com/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cern-opendata-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cern-opendata.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

Published as `@cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cern-opendata-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**15 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.

### Most discussed

### feat(cern_opendata_search_records): category, keyword and LHCb magnet-polarity/stripping filters

### Use case

The portal classifies 66,345 datasets, nearly all simulated (CMS, DELPHI, ATLAS), by physics process in `categories` (`Higgs Physics` › `Standard Model`, `Exotica` › `Dark Matter`, ...) and tags LHCb datasets with magnet polarity and stripping stream and version. `cern_opendata_search_records` exposes none of them: `query` reaches them only through unlisted field forms (`categories.secondary:"Top physics"`), and the tool drops their facets, so a caller can neither discover the…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues/12) · 2026-10-01 · closed · 3 comments

### Most recent

### feat(cern_opendata_get_records): cache lookup hits so deferred and body_offset walks don't re-read the portal

### Use case

Related: #11

With the 64,000-byte response budget, a `cern_opendata_get_records` call returns what fits and lists the rest under `deferred`, and a long documentation body is read in 30,000-character slices with `body_offset`. Every follow-up call looks its ids up again, so the walk re-downloads hits the previous call already read:

| Walk | Calls | Upstream bytes |
|:--|--:|--:|
| 20 `stripping21-bhadron-*beauty2charmline` slugs, following `deferred` to the end | 20 | ~9.5 MB…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues/18) · 2026-10-02 · open · 0 comments

[See all 15 reviewed GitHub reports](/mcp/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues).

## Firsthand observations

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## For agents

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Call `find_mcp` to find cern-opendata-mcp-server, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "cern-opendata-mcp-server",
  "limit": 5
}
```

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

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```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=cern-opendata-mcp-server' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

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