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CLIO Scientific Catalog MCP Server

Operator-owned scientific dataset discovery for remote agents

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Published as clio-kit on pypi. Runs locally.

Published as clio-kit on pypi. Runs locally.

Published as clio-kit on pypi. Runs locally.

Published as clio-kit on pypi. Runs locally.

Published as clio-kit on pypi. Runs locally.

Published as clio-kit on pypi. Runs locally.

Published as clio-kit on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

27 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

Campaign: server code health + MCP tasks semantics + scientific-catalog eviction

[clio-kit] Campaign: server code health + MCP tasks semantics + scientific-catalog eviction

Why (owner findings, 2026-08-10)

The kit's MCP servers accreted into mega-files with no size guard; the four infrastructure servers negotiate MCP 2026-07-28 but expose zero tasks semantics for long-running operations; and scientific-catalog entered the kit (2.4.0, #297) without design approval. One unified campaign — the refactor and the tasks work touch the same files and land together, not as s

Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · open · 2 comments

MCP environment cache: no eviction — 72 venvs for 11 servers (43.5 GB); needs LRU/max-per-server + uv cache prune

Storage audit on a heavy-use dev box (clio-agent, one month): ~/.cache/clio-kit held 43.5 GB — uv-cache 33.9 GB and mcp-environments 9.45 GB comprising 72 full venvs for only 11 distinct servers (jarvis ×19, spack ×16, slurm ×7, adios ×7, scientific-catalog ×7...). Each spec/version change builds a NEW env keyed by spec-hash and never deletes the old one; heavy envs are 200–434 MB each, re-installing the same pandas/numpy/rasterio/pyproj/matplotlib stack. The private uv-cache accum

Read the thread · 2026-07-20 · closed · 2 comments

jarvis MCP: interceptor/preloader target-binding lost - add_step cannot express what Darshan wraps (blocks agent I/O instrumentation; contract v3.7.1)

Verified 2026-08-19 (owner recalled the special case; the code is gone):

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · open · 1 comment

spack server: the agent provisioning loop — typed not-installed → lookup → HITL-approved install-as-task → redeploy

Owner design spec (2026-08-11). The spack MCP exists so that the agent can build packages. The intended product loop:

  1. A deploy attempt on a package whose runtime is absent returns a typed "package not installed" error — not a hang, not an ambiguous probe status, not a silent empty result.
  2. The agent looks the package up on the remote spack (search/info: does a recipe exist, what versions/variants, what would an install entail).
  3. The agent asks the user for approval to install

Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · open · 1 comment

Packaging

A dicsussion shoudl be had around packaging

Read the thread · 2026-08-10 · open · 1 comment

Most recent

jarvis_add_step: config-level 'target' key collides with the top-level target parameter - raw TypeError instead of a typed refusal

Defect (found live on ares during the clio-relay v1.7.0 darshan acceptance run, kit 2.10.6 / jarvis-cd 1.8.1)

jarvis_add_step with an interceptor-class package requires the v3.7.2 top-level target parameter — correct. But if a caller ALSO carries target inside the step config object (the natural fallback for a client whose tool schema predates v3.7.2), the server crashes with:

append_pkg() got multiple values for keyword argument 'target'

instead of a typed refusal. The han

Read the thread · 2026-08-28 · open · 0 comments

lmod server: the third provisioning leg — module discovery + env resolution as data, same contract as spack/native

Owner direction (2026-08-11): the provisioning story has three legs, and the 2026-08-11 missions proved two of them — spack (LAMMPS: spack DB → resolved prefixes → jarvis environment.yaml snapshot applied as data) and natively-installed apps (gray-scott: absolute executable path + RPATH-baked binary, zero env injection needed). The third leg is module-managed apps via Lmod — the standard mechanism on HPC clusters for natively-installed software — and the owner planned to use the exis

Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · open · 0 comments

ndp: inner 3x30s retry loop silently burns the caller's timeout budget against a single hardcoded plain-HTTP host

Evidence (2026-08-06, clio-agent round-9 live run)

All three parallel ndp children timed out at ~181s on ndp_search_datasets (clio-agent's outer asyncio ceiling is 180s), tightly clustered — then the same call reproduced at ~1.1s 25 minutes later. Mechanism (ndp/src/ndp_mcp/server.py:219-262, NDPClient._make_request):

Read the thread · 2026-08-06 · open · 0 comments

Declare MCP tool titles (spec 2025-06-18 tool.title) on every server's tools

Problem

No clio-kit server declares MCP tool display titles. title appears in plot only as a plot-content parameter (plot_mcp/server.py — "Custom title for the plot"), not as tool metadata. Clients therefore render raw identifiers (plot_line_plot, pandas_load_data), and namespacing clients double the prefix (plot_plot_timeline_series).

MCP added a dedicated display-name field in the 2025-06-18 revision: tool.title (with tool.annotations.title as the older 2025-03-26 location).

Read the thread · 2026-08-05 · open · 0 comments

plot server parses the full CSV before applying max_rows — 50MB file needs 180s+ or times out

Live evidence (clio-agent P5 demo runs, 2026-08-04): plot_plot_timeseries against a staged 50,424,246-byte EarthScope CSV (MTA1.CI.LY_.30.csv) timed out at a 30s call ceiling twice WITH max_rows: 500 — the row cap does not reduce the read/parse cost, so the server evidently loads/parses the whole file before slicing. With the ceiling raised to 180s the default-cap attempt still timed out and only a 500-row retry succeeded, so the delivered plot covers 500 of 250,000 rows.

Asks:

  1. Apply t

Read the thread · 2026-08-04 · open · 0 comments

Feature: a cheap resolve probe for locked MCP servers (print the launch plan without spawning)

Context

clio-agent is eliminating the resident launcher overhead of MCP fleets (iowarp/clio-agent#934, campaign iowarp/clio-agent#930). On Windows, clio-kit mcp-server <name> stays resident as a 7-process chain per server (trampoline → bootstrap python → clio-kit CLI → uv run → venv shim → venv python → server): ~90 MB of wrapper overhead per namespace for the life of the fleet, of which only the leaf (~110-180 MB) is the server.

clio-agent now learns the leaf argv from a live chain and

Read the thread · 2026-07-15 · open · 0 comments

Modernize remaining MCPs with agent-oriented contracts and independent server versions

Goal

Modernize the remaining clio-kit MCP servers from one-tool-per-API/CLI wrappers into compact contracts designed around how an agent reasons about a native resource.

JARVIS v3 and Slurm v3 are reference implementations, but the lesson is not simply "fewer tools." The design process is:

  1. Separate user intent from operator, compatibility, and low-level API operations.
  2. Group related verbs and views around the native resource an agent is managing.
  3. Preserve the authoritative native

Read the thread · 2026-07-12 · open · 0 comments

See all 17 reports Pod holds for CLIO Scientific Catalog — of 27 qualified upstream.

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