# mcp MCP Server

Securely access and manage FHIR healthcare data stored in Medplum.

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

## Status

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## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://api.medplum.com/mcp/stream`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-7": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.medplum.com/mcp/stream"
    }
  }
}
```

## Known issues

**41 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

### Implement the MCP 'search' and 'fetch' tools (currently dummy stubs)

In `packages/server/src/mcp/server.ts`, `search` (L31) and `fetch` (L36) currently return a hardcoded dummy document. From the comment they look like placeholders so ChatGPT will connect, rather than working tools yet.

The only functional tool is `fhir-request` (L51), which returns `JSON.stringify(response)`. For an LLM client this is the core problem: a real patient can have thousands of resources, and a single search can return a large bundle, so dumping the full raw response into the model's

[Read the thread](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/issues/9616) · 2026-06-24 · open · external user · 7 comments

### Recommended way to connect Claude Code (CLI) to a self-hosted MCP server over OAuth?

## Question

Is there a recommended way to connect **Claude Code (the CLI)** to a **self-hosted** Medplum MCP server over OAuth? The docs in `docs/ai/mcp.md` cover the **claude.ai** web connector (hosted `api.medplum.com`, a pre-registered redirect, the Anthropic directory), but we couldn't find guidance for the Claude Code CLI against a self-hosted server, so we worked something out by reading the 5.1.17 source and wanted to check whether it's the intended path.

## What we're doing

We run the

[Read the thread](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/issues/9537) · 2026-06-17 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Integrate (c)(1) and (b)(11) exploration code into Provider App

> [!NOTE]
> This work is strictly for certification and will not affect production code paths.

## Description

The exploration code for (c)(1) and (b)(11) certification must be moved from the parallel repository (forked from Medplum) into the `medplum-provider` application.

This work supports certification exam preparation. The code should be integrated into the Provider App in a separate branch and should not be merged into `main` at this time. A draft PR may be opened to facilitate review an

[Read the thread](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/issues/7292) · 2025-08-22 · closed · outside contributor · 6 comments

### OAuth RFC 7662 for external auth

The IUA specification describes how a FHIR server can accept an authorization token from an external auth provider, _on every resource request_

https://infoscribe.infoway-inforoute.ca/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=194838753

This generally follows OAuth2.1 standards. However, one step, labeled [ITI-102 Token Introspection](https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/IUA/index.html#3102-introspect-token-iti-102), seems to rely on a IHE defined introspection standard.

However, the docs are a bit unclear. This m

[Read the thread](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/issues/6355) · 2025-04-11 · closed · outside contributor · 13 comments

### Incorrect Validation Failure on Patient.identifier slice

## Repro

1. Upload the following StructureDefinition

[StructureDefinition-MedplumHealthGorillaPatient.json](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/files/14912211/StructureDefinition-MedplumHealthGorillaPatient.json)

2. Try to save the following `Patient`
```json
{
  "resourceType": "Patient",
  "identifier": [
    {
      "type": {
        "coding": [
          {
            "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v2-0203",
            "code": "MR",
            "display"

[Read the thread](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/issues/4346) · 2024-04-09 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Most recent

### [React] Component for bullet-separated list

Some components display text delimited by a dot (·), like this: 
> `DOB: 08/20/2000 · MRN: 12345`

There are multiple instances of this existing in the code, enough so that it might make sense to just create a component for it that could handle this with a CSS rule like `li + li::before { content: " · "; };`. It could maybe be called `<BulletSeparatedList />`.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/issues/10289) · 2026-08-21 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### handleUnauthenticated() wipes all of localStorage on a 401 with no session or refresh token

## Summary

On a 401 with no session or usable refresh token, `MedplumClient` wipes storage before the
app can react — `handleUnauthenticated()` → `clear()` → a bare
`localStorage.clear()`. That destroys keys Medplum doesn't own, and emits a
`storage` event with `key === null`, which the client's *own* listener answers
with `window.location.reload()` in every other tab.

**Version:** `@medplum/core@5.1.7`, browser, default `localStorage` backing.

## Code path

```js
// handleUnauthenticated() —

[Read the thread](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/issues/10262) · 2026-08-20 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Support chained search in MemoryRepository

`MemoryRepository` can't execute chained search parameters, and it fails silently rather than loudly. The parser stores any key containing a `.` verbatim and leaves interpretation to the server (`packages/core/src/search/search.ts:234`), so when the matcher looks that code up in the flat search parameter table it misses and rejects every candidate (`packages/core/src/search/match.ts:48`). A chained query against `MockClient` comes back as an empty searchset instead of an error, which means any t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/issues/10258) · 2026-08-19 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### External auth (authorization code) fails on gzip token responses — verifyExternalCode missing Accept-Encoding: identity (same gap as #9554)

## Summary

External identity-provider login via the authorization-code callback (`/auth/external`) fails with:

> Failed to verify code - check your identity provider configuration

whenever the IdP's **token endpoint returns a gzip-compressed response**.

`verifyExternalCode` in `packages/server/src/auth/external.ts` performs the token-exchange `fetch` with only `Accept` and `Content-Type` headers (no `Accept-Encoding`), so Node/undici defaults to sending `Accept-Encoding: gzip`. When the IdP 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/issues/9558) · 2026-06-19 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Bot subscriptions do not generate subscription delivery AuditEvents

## Bug

When a `Subscription` uses a Bot as its channel endpoint (`channel.endpoint = "Bot/<id>"`), the `subscription-audit-event-destination` extension is silently ignored and no subscription delivery `AuditEvent` is ever created — regardless of whether the extension specifies `resource`, `log`, or both.

## Root Cause

In `packages/server/src/workers/subscription.ts`, the `execBot` function calls `executeBot(...)` but never calls `createSubscriptionAuditEvent()`:

```ts
async function execBot(

[Read the thread](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/issues/9385) · 2026-06-02 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### UserSecurityRequest password reset tokens have no time-based expiration and are not superseded by newer requests

## Summary

A [user correctly discovered that](https://discord.com/channels/905144809105260605/1503761739743891609) `UserSecurityRequest` resources used for password reset flows are missing two standard security controls:

1. **No time-based expiration** — reset tokens remain valid indefinitely until used
2. **No supersession** — creating a new reset request does not invalidate prior unused ones for the same user

## Current Behavior

The `auth/setpassword` endpoint validates a reset token only 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/issues/9190) · 2026-05-12 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### MCP: AI clients (e.g. Claude) don't request offline_access scope, causing frequent session drops

## Problem

AI clients connecting to the Medplum MCP server via OAuth authenticate using the `authorization_code` flow but do not request the `offline_access` scope. As a result, Medplum never issues a refresh token, and the session silently dies when the access token expires (~1 hour).

This is a known gap in how MCP clients implement OAuth, as they initiate the auth flow without `offline_access`, so there is no mechanism for the server to issue or the client to use a refresh token.

## Impact

[Read the thread](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/issues/9183) · 2026-05-12 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

[See all 22 reports Pod holds for mcp](/mcp/mcp-7/issues) — of 41 qualified upstream.

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