Amass MCP server

Amass is a remote MCP server for life-science research. It exposes one linked corpus — publications, clinical trials, drugs, genes, regulatory approvals and patents — to Claude, ChatGPT, VS Code, Cursor and any other MCP client.

This repository holds the MCP Registry listing (server.json). The server itself is a hosted service, so there is nothing here to install or run.

Connect

Amass speaks streamable HTTP with OAuth 2.1. Most clients need only the URL:

https://mcp.amass.tech/mcp

You will be redirected to sign in with your Amass account; new accounts are provisioned automatically with trial credits. Clients that cannot complete an OAuth flow can instead send an Amass API key (amass_…) as a bearer token.

Or install it from the registry by name: tech.amass/amass.

What you get

Six Cores, cross-linked so you can move between them in a single query — publications ↔ trials, trials ↔ drugs, drugs ↔ genes, drugs ↔ approvals, and patents ↔ drugs/publications.

Each Core has a search_amass_<core>_records tool for discovery and a get_amass_<core>_record tool for fetching a known identifier. RegulatoryCore adds get_amass_regulatorycore_document_section for full source-document text, and send_feedback reports data issues straight to the Amass data team.

Website: https://amass.tech · Platform: https://platform.amass.tech · API docs: https://mcp.amass.tech/api/doc

License

Apache-2.0.

Maintainers

Everything below is the release runbook for this listing. It is not needed to use the server.

server.json is the source of truth. The registry authenticates by DNS: a TXT record on amass.tech carries the public half of an Ed25519 key, and CI signs with the private half. That is why the listing is namespaced tech.amass/… rather than under a GitHub org.

Publishing a new version

1. Edit server.json and bump version.

2. Open a PR — CI validates the file, checks the version is not already published, and confirms https://mcp.amass.tech/mcp is up.

3. Merge, then tag:

   bash

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   git tag vX.Y.Z && git push origin vX.Y.Z    # must match "version" in server.json
   

The tag must match version in server.json or the workflow fails.

The listing version tracks the major version of the deployed MCP server.

One-time DNS auth setup

./scripts/setup-dns-auth.sh

Generates the keypair and prints the Cloudflare TXT record and the gh secret set command for MCP_PRIVATE_KEY. Follow its four steps, then delete the local key.pem.

Publishing by hand

brew install mcp-publisher
mcp-publisher login dns --domain amass.tech \
  --private-key "$(openssl pkey -in key.pem -noout -text | grep -A3 'priv:' | tail -n +2 | tr -d ' :\n')"
mcp-publisher publish

Verify:

curl --get --data-urlencode "search=tech.amass/amass" \
  https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers

Constraints worth remembering

• description is capped at 100 characters. CI enforces this.
• Published versions are immutable, and servers currently cannot be deleted or unpublished — corrections ship as a new version.
• Do not name a release branch after its version; it collides with the tag and git push origin vX.Y.Z becomes ambiguous.