BioCatalystFeed
PYPI · BIOCATALYSTFEED
Biotech catalyst feed: ClinicalTrials.gov, openFDA, NIH grants, PubMed/Europe PMC, SEC EDGAR.
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Last scanned (12 hours ago)
Scores higher than 65% of PyPI servers
Category Health and Science
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security100
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- Runs setuptools.build_meta at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it. View diagnostics → Pass
- 1 of 32 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency48
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- Clear OSI-approved license (Apache-2.0).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 3 days ago).Pass
- Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability55
- AI-judged instruction clarity (fair).Partial
- Tool/resource definitions use about 1309 tokens (~81/item across 16 items; 16 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management0
- Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).Unverified
Tool Coverage71
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 0% of tool parameters carry a description.Fail
- Structured output schemas are declared (56% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 16 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 16 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).Pass
Unverified: 1 category
A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 15 Oct 26 +25
- Injection markers: unverified → pass ▲ security
- First check of Judged manipulation: pass security
- Stability: Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window). security
- Tool coverage: unverified → 100 ▲ functional
- MCP protocol: unverified → pass ▲ functional
- First check of Tool coverage: 0 functional
- First check of Schema quality: fail functional
- First check of Schema quality: fair functional
- First check of Tool coverage: 56 functional
- First check of Destructive annotations: pass functional
- First check of Schema quality: pass functional
- 14 Oct 26 40
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 18 Oct 2026 · Analysed pypi/biocatalystfeed@0.2.2
Provenance No attestation
The registry publishes no build provenance for this version, so there is nothing to verify.
| Result | No attestation |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | pypi |
| Reason | No attestation published |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Install scripts 1 script
| Hook | Tier | Command |
|---|---|---|
| build_backend | allowlisted | setuptools.build_meta |
Background: Why install scripts are a supply-chain risk →
Dependencies 32 packages
| Packages resolved | 32 |
|---|---|
| No linked repository | 1 |
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
changes_feed ~76
Digest of detected changes as a feed document (format 'json' = JSON Feed 1.1, 'rss' = RSS 2.0). tool: trials | fda | grants | papers | sec.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| format | string | – | – |
| since | – | – | – |
| tool | string | – | – |
| watch | – | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
company_profile ~157
Merged company view: ClinicalTrials.gov pipeline (lead sponsor, alias-resolved) + FDA applications, novel approvals, recent FDA actions and label updates, plus (unless basic=True) NIH grants, PubMed papers (affiliation + key drugs), bioRxiv/medRxiv preprints via Europe PMC (last preprint_days; 0 = skip) and SEC 8-K PDUFA-date candidates (UNVERIFIED). Accepts name or ticker (e.g. 'Viking Therapeutics', 'TERN').
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| basic | boolean | – | – |
| company | string | yes | – |
| include_collaborations | boolean | – | – |
| preprint_days | integer | – | – |
| recent_days | integer | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
fda_approvals ~105
Drugs@FDA submissions/approvals from openFDA (ORIG + supplements), newest first. sponsor is alias-resolved (e.g. 'Lilly', 'MDGL'); since/until filter submission status date YYYY-MM-DD; novel_only = original NME/BLA approvals.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| application_number | – | – | – |
| max_results | integer | – | – |
| novel_only | boolean | – | – |
| since | – | – | – |
| sponsor | – | – | – |
| until | – | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
fda_changes_since ~46
List detected FDA changes (new submissions, approvals, label revisions) since an ISO date (from fdawatch watches).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| since | string | yes | – |
| watch | – | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
get_trial ~27
Get one normalized trial record by NCT ID.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| nct_id | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
grant_changes_since ~40
Detected grant changes (new_award, award_amount_change, ...) since an ISO date.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| since | string | yes | – |
| watch | – | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
paper_changes_since ~31
New papers/preprints detected since an ISO date.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| since | string | yes | – |
| watch | – | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
search_grants ~184
NIH RePORTER grants by organization (wildcard unless org_exact), PI name ('Jane A. Doe' or 'Doe, Jane A'; middle initials respected, pi_exact for strict), keyword (title/terms/abstract; quote phrases, OR allowed) and award notice date window YYYY-MM-DD. Newest award notice first; future-dated awards flagged and listed after current ones (include_future=False drops them). exclude drops grants mentioning any term; rank sorts by relevance.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| exclude | – | – | – |
| fiscal_years | – | – | – |
| include_future | boolean | – | – |
| keyword | – | – | – |
| max_results | integer | – | – |
| org | – | – | – |
| org_exact | boolean | – | – |
| pi | – | – | – |
| pi_exact | boolean | – | – |
| rank | boolean | – | – |
| since | – | – | – |
| until | – | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
search_papers ~162
Papers from PubMed, Europe PMC and bioRxiv/medRxiv preprints (via Europe PMC keyword search; bioRxiv API as fallback), deduplicated by DOI/PMID. sources subset of ["pubmed","europepmc","preprints"] (default all). affiliation/drug lists are OR'd; keyword is raw query syntax; since = YYYY-MM-DD. exclude drops titles containing any term; rank sorts by relevance. Metadata + links only.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| affiliation | – | – | – |
| drug | – | – | – |
| exclude | – | – | – |
| keyword | – | – | – |
| max_results | integer | – | – |
| preprint_days | integer | – | – |
| rank | boolean | – | – |
| since | – | – | – |
| sources | – | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_trials ~114
Search ClinicalTrials.gov. phases e.g. ["PHASE2","PHASE3"]; statuses e.g. ["RECRUITING"]; changed_since YYYY-MM-DD. exclude drops trials whose title/conditions/interventions contain any term; rank sorts by relevance to the query.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| changed_since | – | – | – |
| condition | – | – | – |
| exclude | – | – | – |
| intervention | – | – | – |
| max_records | integer | – | – |
| phases | – | – | – |
| rank | boolean | – | – |
| sponsor | – | – | – |
| statuses | – | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
sec_pdufa_mentions ~89
SEC EDGAR 8-K documents mentioning "PDUFA" for a company (name, ticker or CIK), with candidate PDUFA dates and source links. Candidates are UNVERIFIED regex extractions; best=True marks the date nearest each mention.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| company | string | yes | – |
| max_docs | integer | – | – |
| since | – | – | – |
| until | – | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
snapshot_grants ~67
Snapshot a grant query into the local DB; returns new awards / amount / end-date changes since the previous snapshot.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| keyword | – | – | – |
| name | string | yes | – |
| org | – | – | – |
| org_exact | boolean | – | – |
| pi | – | – | – |
| since | – | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
snapshot_papers ~66
Snapshot a paper query (PubMed + optional preprints) and return papers new since the previous snapshot.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| affiliation | – | – | – |
| drug | – | – | – |
| keyword | – | – | – |
| name | string | yes | – |
| preprint_days | integer | – | – |
| since | – | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
snapshot_watch ~55
Snapshot a saved query ('watch') into the local DB and return what changed since its previous snapshot.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| condition | – | – | – |
| intervention | – | – | – |
| name | string | yes | – |
| phases | – | – | – |
| sponsor | – | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
sponsor_pipeline ~44
Summarize a sponsor's trial pipeline by phase and status, with active trials sorted by primary completion.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| max_records | integer | – | – |
| sponsor | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
trial_changes_since ~46
List detected changes (new trials, status/phase/enrollment/date changes) since an ISO date, optionally for one watch.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| since | string | yes | – |
| watch | – | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
How do I install the BioCatalystFeed MCP server?
BioCatalystFeed runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx biocatalystfeed. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
pypi · biocatalystfeed
claude mcp add biocatalystfeed-biocatalystfeed -- uvx biocatalystfeed
What is the BioCatalystFeed MCP server?
BioCatalystFeed is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.biocatalystfeed/biocatalystfeed. Biotech catalyst feed: ClinicalTrials.gov, openFDA, NIH grants, PubMed/Europe PMC, SEC EDGAR. This page covers its PyPI package (biocatalystfeed).
Is the BioCatalystFeed MCP server safe to use?
BioCatalystFeed scores 65 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 18 October 2026. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the BioCatalystFeed MCP server expose?
BioCatalystFeed exposes 16 tools: search_trials, get_trial, snapshot_watch, trial_changes_since, sponsor_pipeline, and 11 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,309 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the BioCatalystFeed MCP server still maintained?
BioCatalystFeed is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 18 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.
What licence is the BioCatalystFeed MCP server under?
BioCatalystFeed declares the Apache-2.0 licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.