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galaxy-mcp MCP Server

MCP server for Galaxy bioinformatics platform - connect, execute tools, and manage workflows

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Published as galaxy-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

6 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 5.

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run_tool returns raw Galaxy HTML error pages on 4xx, which LLM clients cannot parse

When run_tool gets a 4xx from Galaxy, it returns the raw HTML error page. The actual message sits inside a <div class="alert"> under ~400 characters of doctype/stylesheet boilerplate.

Observed while driving Loom with a local open-weight model against usegalaxy.org:

Error: Error calling tool 'run_tool': Run tool failed: Unexpected HTTP status code: 400:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <link href="/static/dist/base.css?v=1784455921000" media="screen" rel="stylesheet"

[Read the thread](https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy-mcp/issues/101) · 2026-08-25 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Is workflow creation out of scope, or waiting on something?

I've been looking through the capabilities of the server, along with the gxformat2 spec, and I'm curious about the reasoning behind workflow creation not being included as a tool.

I understand why, from an agent's perspective, it would be hard to one-shot the spec. But looking through the Galaxy and BioBlend APIs, it seems like there's already a way to build up a workflow incrementally, with a dry-run option that validates the result before saving it. If that's correct, a creation tool wouldn't

[Read the thread](https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy-mcp/issues/75) · 2026-06-16 · open · external user · 1 comment

### invoke_workflow rejects `inputs`/`params` sent as JSON strings (Optional[dict] drops the schema type)

### Summary
Calling `invoke_workflow` with an `inputs` mapping fails with a pydantic `dict_type` error when the MCP client serializes the object argument as a JSON **string**. `run_tool` (same shape of dataset-mapping argument) works fine, which points at a schema-typing difference rather than user error.

### Environment
- galaxy-mcp: v1.8.0 (installed via `uvx`)
- - Python 3.12, macOS
- - - Client: an MCP host whose tool-arg serializer omits object args for parameters that lack an explicit JSO

[Read the thread](https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy-mcp/issues/72) · 2026-06-14 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### file upload from remote MCP clients (binary + text)

Hi

when using the Galaxy MCP server in **remote/HTTP mode** (i.e., `"type": "http"` in the MCP config), the `upload_file(path)` tool cannot upload files from the client's local filesystem. It seems the `path` parameter is resolved on the **server side**, so it fails with:

File not found: 'C:\Users...\myfile.bam' (absolute: '/app/C:\Users...\myfile.bam')


This effectively means that **any AI agent connected to a remote Galaxy MCP server cannot upload local user files** — which is a co

[Read the thread](https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy-mcp/issues/43) · 2026-04-15 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Workflow Invocation feature request

Hi guys,
Thanks for this amazing work.  I would like to ask for support of running bioinformatics workflow from MCP server which is the last piece of AI + Galaxy in my mind. Since bioblend acutually support running workflow, I wonder if there is any plan of this. 
Thanks a lot.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy-mcp/issues/15) · 2025-09-02 · closed · external user · 3 comments

[See all 6 reports Pod holds for galaxy-mcp](/mcp/galaxy-mcp/issues).

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