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

## Known issues

**72 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

### 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

### 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

### `pushToAgent` initiates outbound connections

Currently, when `pushToAgent` assumes that an existing connection has been established by the listening device. However, many  listening HL7v2 systems expect the sender to establish the TCP connection. 

This task is to configure an Agent "channel" to initiate a TCP connection to a remote IP/port address, rathen than wait for an inbound connection

[Read the thread](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/issues/3063) · 2023-10-17 · closed · outside contributor · 7 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

### Enable Okta authentication via OpenID

The basics of "auth with Okta" are straightforward.  The challenge here will be weaving it into the current auth flow, which is quite complex.

In a perfect world, we could add Okta simply as another auth provider at the beginning of the flow:

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/749094/211216216-1dccd7c3-b23c-4b0f-a793-fee2eb1d5fd1.png)

Unfortunately, Okta partitions auth endpoints by customer, so there is no global auth endpoint.  Instead, you need to know the domain by c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/issues/1381) · 2023-01-08 · closed · 4 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

### FHIRcast: Subscriber name tracking for diagnostics

## Summary

Track subscriber name for better SyncError diagnostics and logging.

## Required Features

- Accept optional `subscriber.name` parameter in subscription request
- Store in subscriber record (Redis)
- Include in SyncError diagnostics

## Tasks

- [ ] Accept `subscriber.name` in subscription request
- [ ] Store in Redis subscriber record
- [ ] Include in SyncError OperationOutcome diagnostics

## Example

```typescript
// Subscription
{
  hub.channel.type: websocket,
  hub.mode: subscr

[Read the thread](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/issues/10038) · 2026-07-31 · open · 0 comments

### FHIRcast: OHIF DICOM Viewer compatibility

## Summary

Add compatibility features required for OHIF DICOM Viewer integration.

## Required Features

### URL-Encoded Subscription Support
OHIF sends subscriptions as `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`.

**Tasks:**
- [ ] Add URL-encoded body parsing support
- [ ] Update content-type detection in subscription route

### /api/hub Compatibility Alias
OHIF expects `/api/hub` endpoint.

**Tasks:**
- [ ] Add route: `apiRouter.use(/api/hub, fhircastSTU3Router)`

### CORS Prefix
Allow CORS prefligh

[Read the thread](https://github.com/medplum/medplum/issues/10035) · 2026-07-31 · closed · 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

### 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

[See all 23 reports Pod holds for mcp](/mcp/mcp-medplum/issues) — of 72 qualified upstream.

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