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genefoundry MCP Server

MCP gateway federating 21 biomedical MCP servers behind one endpoint: gnomAD, ClinVar, HPO, VEP.

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Status

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Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://genefoundry.org/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "genefoundry": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://genefoundry.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Known issues

17 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

Fleet: Contract-Truth sweep — the advertised contract lies about the runtime (proven on gtex + panelapp)

The defect class

An MCP server's advertised contract — its JSON Schema, tool descriptions, capabilities payload, MCP resources, server-instructions string, and README/docs — is what an LLM reads to decide how to call it. When that contract claims something the runtime does not honour, the agent obeys the contract and fails. The cost is silent and recurring: burned round trips, wrong provenance, or a capability the agent believes exists and never gets.

Two bugs in this class were fix

Read the thread · 2026-07-14 · open · 5 comments

Fleet conformance: gate the three recurring behavioural bugs (silent-empty filter, lying total, non-actionable error) — 74 confirmed instances

Summary

Complements #68, which asked for a sweep of the remaining 19 backends and predicted they would not be clean. They are not: a live audit of all 21 backends produced 74 independently-confirmed defects (each reproduced twice — once by a tester, once by a verifier instructed to refute it). Results are reported into #68; this issue proposes the gate that would stop them recurring.

The distinction from #68: that issue is about the advertised contract **lying about the runtim

Read the thread · 2026-07-14 · closed · 4 comments

Standard: TOOL-SURFACE-BUDGET-STANDARD v1 — cap the tool-surface token cost (pubtator is 37% of a 200k context)

Summary

The fleet has no budget for the one cost every client pays on every session, before any work happens: the tools/list payload. Measured against the live fleet, that cost is now large enough to change model behaviour, and two servers alone would blow a client's context budget.

This proposes a TOOL-SURFACE-BUDGET-STANDARD v1, in the same house style as MCP-TRANSPORT-STANDARD-v1 / RESPONSE-ENVELOPE-STANDARD-v1.1, with a CI gate.

Measured today (live, public endpoints)

Read the thread · 2026-07-14 · closed · 4 comments

outputSchema is ~54% of the fleet's tool surface — the response models are too big to publish (see correction below)

Summary

~54 % of the fleet's entire tool surface is outputSchema. The cause is a FastMCP default, not fleet code — which is why it appears nowhere in any of our repos and has gone unnoticed. One fix repairs all 22 servers.

Root cause (verified against the installed FastMCP, not inferred)

fastmcp/server/server.py:309      FastMCP(..., dereference_schemas: bool = True)   # <-- default TRUE
fastmcp/server/server.py:422-427  if dereference_schemas: self.middleware.append(Deref

[Read the thread](https://github.com/berntpopp/genefoundry-router/issues/74) · 2026-07-14 · closed · 2 comments

### security: re-pin current UniProt MCP definitions in the release baseline (R-02 regression)

## Severity
Medium

## Problem

The router release-candidate artifacts are internally consistent but no longer represent current fleet source. `ci/release-candidate-inventory.json:24-27` pins UniProt at `157b17ea7f328d0fdb4c514d805a6c69668c4a3d`; current `uniprot-link` main is `9e9330a8136e`.

Current UniProt deliberately changes `search_sparql_query`: it permits bounded SELECT/ASK only, rejects `SERVICE`/CONSTRUCT/DESCRIBE, removes graph result formats, and emits output schema plus explicit ann

[Read the thread](https://github.com/berntpopp/genefoundry-router/issues/51) · 2026-07-12 · closed · 2 comments

### Most recent

### feat: add provider-compatible strict schema and compact tool-selection views

## Problem

The canonical direct GeneFoundry MCP tool surface works for Gemma 4 and Claude-class models, but two provider compatibility gaps block fair direct-tool evaluation for current OpenAI and Gemini models.

1. OpenAI strict structured-output requests reject tool schemas with optional properties or open object shapes before tool execution.
2. Gemini degrades with the roughly 30-tool catalog: bounded runs repeat tool discovery and can exhaust their turn budget before returning a final answe

[Read the thread](https://github.com/berntpopp/genefoundry-router/issues/116) · 2026-07-26 · open · 0 comments

### OAuthProxy resource check and the PRM derive the resource URI differently (root cause behind the v0.6.8 tolerance patch)

Tracking the proper fix so the `_install_resource_tolerance()` workaround restored in #81 / v0.6.8 can eventually be removed.

## The underlying FastMCP inconsistency
For a server mounted at `/mcp` via `server.http_app(path="/mcp")` inside FastAPI, two derivations of the RFC 8707/9728 resource URI disagree:

- **OAuthProxy resource check** (`proxy.py` `authorize`) uses `self._resource_url`, which under the live mount equals `resource_base_url` **verbatim** — `set_mcp_path` receives the sub-app's

[Read the thread](https://github.com/berntpopp/genefoundry-router/issues/84) · 2026-07-15 · open · 1 comment

### MCP Registry publish has failed on every tag since v0.6.6 (mcp-publisher arch 404)

## Symptom
The **MCP Registry** workflow (`mcp-registry.yml`, runs on every `v*` tag) fails at *Install mcp-publisher*:

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/releases/latest/download/mcp-publisher_linux_x86_64.tar.gz gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file


Confirmed failing identically on **v0.6.6, v0.6.7, v0.6.8** — so the router's entry in the official MCP Registry has not been refreshed since v0.6.5. Directories poll that entry

[Read the thread](https://github.com/berntpopp/genefoundry-router/issues/83) · 2026-07-15 · closed · 1 comment

### security: nothing asserts GF_PUBLIC_BASE_URL + GF_MCP_PATH == GF_JWT_AUDIENCE — a typo makes the router mint tokens it then rejects

## Summary

The router derives its OAuth resource identity from `GF_PUBLIC_BASE_URL` + `GF_MCP_PATH`, and validates incoming tokens against `GF_JWT_AUDIENCE`. Nothing asserts that these agree:

GF_PUBLIC_BASE_URL + GF_MCP_PATH == GF_JWT_AUDIENCE


If they diverge, the router advertises one resource identifier in its RFC 9728 metadata (so clients obtain tokens with *that* audience) while validating against a different one — it effectively **mints tokens it then rejects**, with a 401 that

[Read the thread](https://github.com/berntpopp/genefoundry-router/issues/78) · 2026-07-14 · open · 0 comments

### Replace HEAD-based fleet validation with manifest-to-runtime provenance

## Problem

Issue #51 exposed an incorrect release assumption: a deployed backend should **not** be compared with the current GitHub default-branch HEAD. Source and production intentionally move at different rates, so that comparison makes a healthy, intentionally pinned deployment appear invalid.

The router needs to verify the released fleet actually running in an environment, not whatever has most recently merged upstream.

## Goal

Introduce an immutable, reviewed **fleet release manifest** 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/berntpopp/genefoundry-router/issues/52) · 2026-07-12 · open · 1 comment

### security(fleet): digest-pin + image scan + SBOM parity across all -link backends

**Surfaced risk (Low, supply chain).** The **router** already digest-pins its base image (`docker/Dockerfile` `python:3.14-slim@sha256:…`) and runs image scanning + drift in CI (`.github/workflows/container-security.yml`, `drift.yml`). Most `-link` backends do **not** yet.

**Fix:** adopt the router / `pubtator-link` CI as the fleet template — digest-pin base images, add Trivy/Grype scan (fail on HIGH/CRITICAL), generate an SBOM — per `CONTAINER-HARDENING-STANDARD-v1`.

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_Surfaced during the 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/berntpopp/genefoundry-router/issues/34) · 2026-07-10 · closed · 1 comment

### security(pubtator-link): harden optional write/`full` profile surface

**Surfaced (read-only exception).** The fleet is read-only by default; `pubtator-link` is the one exception. Its `full` profile exposes state-mutating tools (Postgres writes), an **arbitrary-file-create** in `export_review_audit_bundle` (path not jailed), and **unbounded list inputs** (`index_review_evidence`). The hosted default `lean`/`readonly` profile + read-only rootfs already blunt this.

**Fix for any write-enabled deployment:** require auth for state-mutating tools; **jail the export pat

[Read the thread](https://github.com/berntpopp/genefoundry-router/issues/33) · 2026-07-10 · closed · 1 comment

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