Gdc
NPM · @PIPEWORX/MCP-GDC · 2 COMPONENTS
NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC) MCP.
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Last scanned (10 hours ago)
Scores higher than 89% of npm 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
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess. View diagnostics → Pass
Provenance & Transparency97
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-gdc). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 5 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability79
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 486 tokens (~121/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management30
- Stability observed for 9 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Checks we ran (16)
- Malware scan
- Known CVEs
- Install scripts
- Dependency health
- Source repository
- Provenance
- License
- Maintenance
- Security disclosure
- Schema quality
- Stability
- Tool coverage
- Injection markers
- Destructive annotations
- Judged manipulation
- MCP protocol
Does not apply to this package (2)
- Endpoint SecurityScored on hosted endpoints only. A package has no live endpoint of its own for us to probe.
- Transport & ReachabilityScored on hosted endpoints only. A package has no live endpoint of its own for us to probe.
The score does not measure everything. What the score does not measure →
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.
- 7 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 27 to 30. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 8 days of observed history at the previous scan, 9 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 5 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 4 Nov 26 0
- Security disclosure: unverified → fail ▼ functional
- 3 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 2 Nov 26 +1
- Stability: unverified → 0.13 ▲ functional
- Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1 functional
- 1 Nov 26 0
- Security disclosure: fail → unverified ▼ functional
- 30 Oct 26 0
- Security disclosure: unverified → fail ▼ functional
- 29 Oct 26 82
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 7 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/@pipeworx/mcp-gdc@0.2.1
Provenance Verified
A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.
| Result | Verified |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | pipeworx-io/mcp-gdc |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-gdc/.github/workflows/publish.yml@refs/heads/main |
| Rekor log index | 3637321895 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:a82bae98ec006b4f260765161f55f07962a0bf4b05849b27424fa7210b310d7c9cbc122278bf743ceb9377d732b37c658e9d3b0810688574e0ab07329 |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Dependencies 0 packages
| Packages resolved | 0 |
|---|---|
| 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 →
get_project ~79
Look up a single NCI GDC project by project_id (e.g. "TCGA-BRCA") and get its details plus summary counts (case_count, file_count). Keyless, open-access metadata.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| project_id | string | yes | GDC project id, e.g. "TCGA-BRCA", "TARGET-AML". |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
list_projects ~97
List NCI Genomic Data Commons cancer-genomics projects (TCGA, TARGET, CPTAC, etc.), ranked by case count. Returns project_id, name, program, primary site(s) and disease type(s). Keyless, open-access metadata.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| from | number | – | Offset into the result set for pagination (default 0). |
| size | number | – | Number of projects to return (default 20, max 100). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_cases ~122
Search NCI GDC cancer cases (patients/samples) by primary site and/or project. Returns case_id, submitter_id, primary site, disease type and project_id. Keyless, open-access metadata.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| primary_site | string | – | Primary anatomic site, e.g. "Kidney", "Breast", "Bronchus and lung". |
| project_id | string | – | Restrict to a GDC project, e.g. "TCGA-BRCA". |
| size | number | – | Number of cases to return (default 20). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_files ~136
Search NCI GDC genomic data files by project and/or data category (e.g. "Transcriptome Profiling", "Simple Nucleotide Variation", "DNA Methylation"). Returns file_id, file_name, data category/type/format, access level and file size. Keyless, open-access metadata.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| data_category | string | – | Data category, e.g. "Transcriptome Profiling", "Simple Nucleotide Variation". |
| project_id | string | – | Restrict to a GDC project, e.g. "TCGA-BRCA". |
| size | number | – | Number of files to return (default 20). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Gdc MCP server?
Gdc runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-gdc. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · @pipeworx/mcp-gdc
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-gdc -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-gdc
What is the Gdc MCP server?
Gdc is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/gdc. NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC) MCP. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-gdc).
Is the Gdc MCP server safe to use?
Gdc scores 86 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 7 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. 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 Gdc MCP server expose?
Gdc exposes 4 tools: list_projects, get_project, search_cases, search_files. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 434 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Gdc MCP server still maintained?
Gdc is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 7 November 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 Gdc MCP server under?
Gdc declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.
What did VerifyMCP test on the Gdc MCP server?
VerifyMCP ran 16 checks on Gdc, covering Malware scan, Known CVEs, Install scripts, Dependency health and 12 more. Endpoint Security and Transport & Reachability do not apply to an npm package, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.