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molecare-mcp MCP Server

Educational dermatology knowledge and lesion tooling. No credentials needed. Not a medical device.

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Published as molecare-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

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

Add --version and --help flags to the CLI

The package installs a molecare-mcp binary. Running it with any argument — including --version or --help — starts a stdio server that sits silently waiting for JSON-RPC input.

That is correct behaviour for an MCP server and confusing behaviour for a command. Someone who has just installed the package and wants to check what they got has no way to ask, and the silence reads as a hang.

What to do

Parse process.argv before starting the transport in src/index.ts:

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · open · 1 comment

Delete the unused express middleware, or wire it up

src/middleware/rateLimitMiddleware.ts imports express and defines a Router. Nothing imports it — src/index.ts never references the file.

Rate limiting is genuinely implemented, just elsewhere: src/services/RateLimitService.ts, applied to tool calls at src/index.ts:1049. So the middleware is dead code that:

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · closed · 1 comment

i18n: Optional localization of MCP tool descriptions

Problem

~90+ tools in src/index.ts expose English description strings to MCP hosts. Those descriptions steer how models choose tools. Non-English hosts may benefit from translated descriptions — but this is lower priority than medical KB copy.

Open design questions

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · open · 0 comments

i18n: Document translation workflow in CONTRIBUTING.md

Problem

CONTRIBUTING.md does not explain how to add or update translations for educational content, tool-facing copy, or disclaimers.

Acceptance criteria

Good first issue?

Yes once locale file layout exists (or document the planned layout

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i18n: Add locale parameter to search_medical_info and knowledge resources

Problem

Tools like search_medical_info and MCP resources always return English. Clients have no way to request another language even after locale files exist.

Why it matters

MCP hosts and agents often run in a user’s language. Without a locale hook, extracted translations cannot be selected at runtime.

Proposed approach

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Most recent

Integration test harness that exercises every tool in mock mode

Complements #1 rather than replacing it — #1 is unit tests, this is end-to-end.

Because every tool falls back to clearly-labelled mock data when its backend is unconfigured, the entire 53-tool surface is testable with no credentials, no database and no AWS account. That is an unusually good position to be in and it is currently unused.

What to do

Using the MCP SDK's client, spawn the built server over stdio and:

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · closed · 0 comments

Add MCP prompts

The server declares tools and resources capabilities but no prompts — there are zero references to the prompts capability in src/index.ts.

Prompts are arguably the part of MCP best suited to educational content, because they let the server ship a well-constructed question rather than depending on the user knowing what to ask. Somebody exploring skin-health knowledge often does not know the right question, which is exactly the gap a prompt fills.

Candidates

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Tool profiles: let people load only the dermatology tools

The server registers 53 tools. Roughly:

Someone who installs this for SNOMED lookups gets 44 tools they will never call. Every one of them is serialised into the model's context on every request, which costs tokens and makes tool sel

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · open · 0 comments

Cite sources for every SNOMED CT and ICD-10 mapping

src/resources/medical-kb.ts hardcodes SNOMED CT concepts, ICD-10 codes and the mappings between them, with no provenance recorded anywhere.

For a server whose entire value proposition is educational accuracy, a reader currently cannot tell where 372244006 → C43 came from, which SNOMED release it reflects, or when it was last checked. Terminology releases change: concepts get inactivated, mappings get revised. Undated clinical reference data quietly goes stale.

What to do

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Add MCP tool annotations to all tools

Every tool this server exposes is read-only — nothing mutates state anywhere. The MCP specification defines tool annotations (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) that let a client decide what it can safely call without interrupting the user for approval.

Right now the server declares almost none of them. The practical cost is that a client has to prompt on every single call, including things like map_snomed_to_icd10 which reads from a static lookup table and

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · closed · 0 comments

Expand the dermatology knowledge resources

The server currently exposes four knowledge resources under molecare://knowledge/:

There is room for more educational material — sun protection factors, common benign lesions and how they differ from concerning ones, what actually happens at a dermatology appointment, self-examination technique.

**Before you start, please read the clinical-safety section of [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/MoleCare/molecare-mcp

Read the thread · 2026-08-23 · open · 0 comments

Add a CI workflow

There is no .github/workflows/ directory, so nothing is checked automatically on push or pull request.

What would help

A single workflow running on push and pull request that does:

A useful extra: start the server and assert it answers an initialize and tools/list request over stdio. That catches runtime breakage the type checker misses. It shou

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See all 16 reports Pod holds for molecare-mcp — of 17 qualified upstream.

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