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mcp MCP Server

Securely access and manage FHIR healthcare data stored in Medplum.

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Connect

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

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  "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 · 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 · 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 · 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, seems to rely on a IHE defined introspection standard.

However, the docs are a bit unclear. This m

Read the thread · 2025-04-11 · closed · outside contributor · 13 comments

Incorrect Validation Failure on Patient.identifier slice

Repro

  1. Upload the following StructureDefinition

StructureDefinition-MedplumHealthGorillaPatient.json

  1. Try to save the following Patient
{
  "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

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