# tooluniverse MCP Server

2,500+ scientific tools for AI scientists: life science, research, literature, and more.

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

## Status

Pod has not dialled tooluniverse yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `tooluniverse` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**24 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

### Claude Desktop MCP extension (tooluniverse 1.0.16) fails to start due to yanked fitz dep — please cut a new extension release once #516 lands

## Summary
 
The Claude Desktop extension bundle (`tooluniverse` v1.0.16, internal package `tooluniverse-mcp-native` 1.0.15) no longer starts: its bundled `pyproject.toml` declares `fitz>=0.0.1.dev2`, and since that version was yanked from PyPI, `uv` cannot resolve the environment. The server process exits before completing the MCP handshake, and Claude Desktop reports the extension as disconnected.
 
PR #516 fixes this in the main repo (`fitz` → `pymupdf`), but the Desktop extension ships its o

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/issues/518) · 2026-08-12 · open · external user · 4 comments

### [Feature request] GEANT4 mcp integration

From simulation side a GEANT4 MCP integration like [this one](https://github.com/abhich2507/geant4-mcp) would be extremely usefull!

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/issues/252) · 2026-06-10 · open · external user · 2 comments

### MCPB manifest invalid: server.type 'uv' violates spec enum (python|node|binary)

## Problem

The MCPB bundle published at the GitHub Release asset URL

  https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/releases/download/mcpb/tooluniverse.mcpb

fails MCPB-manifest validation in Claude Code 2.1.150 with:

```
MCPB manifest invalid at https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/releases/download/mcpb/tooluniverse.mcpb:
  Invalid manifest: server: Invalid enum value. Expected 'python' | 'node' | 'binary', received 'uv'
```

This surfaces on every `claude /doctor` invocation for an

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/issues/201) · 2026-05-26 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### MCPB manifest fails Claude Code validation: `server: "uv"` not in allowed enum

The MCPB bundle published at
`https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/releases/download/mcpb/tooluniverse.mcpb`
fails to load in Claude Code's plugin system. `/doctor` reports:

```
Plugin (tooluniverse @ tooluniverse@life-sciences): MCPB manifest invalid at
https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/releases/download/mcpb/tooluniverse.mcpb:
Invalid manifest: server: Invalid enum value.
Expected 'python' | 'node' | 'binary', received 'uv'
```

## Cause

The MCPB manifest schema (used by C

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/issues/186) · 2026-05-14 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### MCPB manifest uses invalid server type 'uv' - should be 'python'

### Description

The MCPB manifest at `https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/releases/download/mcpb/tooluniverse.mcpb` specifies an invalid server type, causing installation to fail.

### Error Message

```
MCPB manifest invalid at https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/releases/download/mcpb/tooluniverse.mcpb: 
Invalid manifest: server: Invalid enum value. Expected 'python' | 'node' | 'binary', received 'uv'
```

### Root Cause

The MCPB specification only allows three valid values

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/issues/68) · 2026-02-01 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Most recent

### The Claude Desktop MCPB extension (`ant.dir.gh.tooluniverse.tooluniverse-mcp`) cannot start

The Claude Desktop MCPB extension (`ant.dir.gh.tooluniverse.tooluniverse-mcp`) cannot start. `uv` fails dependency resolution before Python ever launches, the pipe closes, and Claude Desktop retries in a tight loop — my `mcp-server-ToolUniverse.log` reached 15,888 lines (1.19 MB) from a single session.

## The failure

Running the extension's exact command by hand:

```
× No solution found when resolving `--with` dependencies:
  ╰─▶ Because only fitz==0.0.0 is available and
      tooluniverse-mc

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/issues/528) · 2026-08-13 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### execute_tool's `arguments` parameter loses `type: object` in exposed MCP schema, causing clients to send it as a JSON string

While using the ToolUniverse MCP server (compact mode, stdio transport) from Claude Code, every call to `execute_tool` failed with:

```
1 validation error for call[execute_tool]
arguments
  Input should be a valid dictionary [type=dict_type, input_value='{"query": "...", "limit": 3}', input_type=str]
```

The client (Claude Code) was sending `arguments` as a JSON-encoded **string** even though it was constructed as a proper object.

## Root cause

`execute_tool`'s schema declares `arguments` as

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/issues/253) · 2026-06-12 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Gemini provider: `return_json` agentic tools fail; deterministic tools default to temp 1.0

[submited with claude-code]

**Version:** tooluniverse 1.2.4 (pip/uv)
**Provider under test:** Gemini (free tier), `gemini-flash-latest`
**Config:** `TOOLUNIVERSE_LLM_DEFAULT_PROVIDER=GEMINI`, `TOOLUNIVERSE_LLM_MODEL_DEFAULT=gemini-flash-latest`, `TOOLUNIVERSE_LLM_CONFIG_MODE=env_override`

I ran the full `agents`-category battery end to end on the Gemini provider (both the CLI `tu run` path and the MCP `execute_tool` path). Most tools work well. Two issues surfaced that specifically affect anyo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/issues/247) · 2026-06-05 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### tu test reports return_schema mismatch on tools returning valid live data (UniProt, RCSB, ClinicalTrials) — v1.2.4

[Submitted via claude-code]

## Summary

Several tools report `return_schema mismatch` under `tu test` even though they successfully retrieve correct, well-formed live data. The declared `return_schema` for these tools appears narrower or staler than what the live upstream APIs now return, so `tu test` produces false negatives. `tu run` / MCP `execute_tool` are unaffected (they do not enforce `return_schema`), so this is a validation-metadata bug rather than a functional one, but it makes `tu te

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/issues/246) · 2026-06-05 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### `ClinicalTrials_search_studies` sends invalid `filter.studyType` param to CT.gov v2 API → 400 Bad Request

### Summary

`ClinicalTrials_search_studies` (and the underlying `ClinicalTrialsTool._run_search`) maps the `filter_study_type` argument to a query-string param `filter.studyType`, which is not a valid CT.gov v2 API parameter. Any call that passes `filter_study_type` hard-fails with HTTP 400 from CT.gov.

This appears to be a half-completed refactor: the same file already implements the correct `filter.advanced` AREA-expression handling for `filter_phase` (line 178: *"CTG API v2 uses filter.adva

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/issues/189) · 2026-05-22 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### MCP tool definitions fully injected into system prompt, causing massive token waste

Scenario: Connecting tooluniverse (2214 tools) via MCP. Every conversation round injects all tool names, descriptions, and parameter schemas into the system prompt.

Problem: Even when only 1-2 tools are actually used, the full set of 2214 definitions consumes 50K-100K+ tokens per turn. In practice, nearly no user needs all tools simultaneously in a single project.

Suggestion: Could you add lazy loading or selective registration for type:local MCP servers? For example:

Group tools by category,

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/issues/185) · 2026-05-14 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### DisGeNET tool returns empty results due to outdated API endpoint/auth

The DisGeNET_search_gene and DisGeNET_search_disease tools always return empty results (count: 0, status: success) regardless of input.
Diagnosis: The tool description references disgenet.org (old domain), but DisGeNET has migrated to a commercial service at api.disgenet.com since 2024 with a new authentication scheme.
Confirmation: Direct testing of the new API works correctly:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $DISGENET_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.disgenet.com/api/v1/gda/summary?gene_ncbi_id=7157&

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/issues/175) · 2026-05-07 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 19 reports Pod holds for tooluniverse](/mcp/tooluniverse/issues) — of 24 qualified upstream.

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