Nih Reporter
NPM · @PIPEWORX/MCP-NIH-REPORTER · 2 COMPONENTS
NIH RePORTER MCP — every NIH-funded research project (free, no auth)
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Last scanned (7 hours ago)
Scores higher than 72% of npm servers
Category Education and Research
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-nih-reporter). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 1 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability70
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1332 tokens (~148/item across 9 items; 9 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management23
- Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage89
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 66% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 9 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 10 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
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.
- 4 Nov 26 +15
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
- 3 Nov 26 −12
- Malware scan: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Stability: unverified → 0.17 ▲ functional
- Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1 functional
- 30 Oct 26 0
- Security disclosure: unverified → fail ▼ functional
- 29 Oct 26 79
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 5 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/@pipeworx/mcp-nih-reporter@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-nih-reporter |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-nih-reporter/.github/workflows/publish.yml@refs/heads/main |
| Rekor log index | 3679267302 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:32b160bfdf54467648f17acdcbeae251dc35e44552f91920819e17f25255ab5f79b2b81e21c1e51b385f195ccc963abbfd4eebaa2e24125adbed3c5f2 |
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 ~73
Fetch one NIH project application record by application ID (numeric, distinct from project number). Returns its complete abstract, public-health relevance, terms, PIs, organization, dates, and award amount. Use nih_grant_award_history for multi-year award history.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| appl_id | number | yes | NIH application ID (integer) |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
nih_funding_concentration ~108
Summarize NIH award dollars and record counts by fiscal year, recipient organization, contact PI, activity code, and funding mechanism for a bounded topic, organization, or PI search. Results disclose truncation and represent reported federal obligations—not valuation, revenue, or total research spending.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| from_fiscal_year | number | – | – |
| organization | string | – | – |
| pi_name | string | – | – |
| query | string | – | – |
| to_fiscal_year | number | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
nih_funding_expirations ~107
Find active NIH projects matching a topic or organization whose current project period is scheduled to end soon. Treat the end date as a monitoring cue only—it can be extended, renewed, supplemented, or updated and does not prove a funding cliff.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| days | number | – | Forward window, 30–730 days (default 180). |
| limit | number | – | 1–100, default 25. |
| organization | string | – | – |
| query | string | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
nih_grant_award_history ~92
Build the annual NIH award history for one core project number, including award, direct/indirect cost, budget dates, application type, and cumulative reported funding. Annual award amounts are obligations for each fiscal year—not company revenue, cash received, or guaranteed future funding.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| core_project_num | string | yes | Core project number, e.g. R43GM128494 or UG1HD078437. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
nih_grant_publication_summary ~84
Count publications linked by NIH RePORTER to a core project number and return a bounded PMID sample. Publication linkage reflects acknowledged grant support; it is not a citation-impact, product-readiness, or causal-attribution measure.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| core_project_num | string | yes | – |
| limit | number | – | PMID sample size, 1–100 (default 25). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
nih_new_grant_awards ~196
Find recently issued NIH awards, optionally restricted to new competing applications, topic, organization, state, institute, activity code, or SBIR/STTR. Useful for financing and emerging-program monitoring; an award notice does not establish commercial validation or future funding.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| activity_code | string | – | NIH activity code such as R01, R43, or U01. |
| days | number | – | Look-back window, 1–365 days (default 30). |
| ic | string | – | – |
| limit | number | – | 1–100, default 25. |
| new_competing_only | boolean | – | Restrict to application type 1 (default true). |
| organization | string | – | – |
| query | string | – | Topic text across title, abstract, and terms. |
| sbir_sttr_only | boolean | – | Restrict to SBIR/STTR research projects. |
| state | string | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
nih_sbir_company_portfolio ~96
Summarize an organization’s NIH SBIR/STTR award portfolio by core project, fiscal year, activity code, and PI. Organization matching is wildcard-based; verify recipient identity and note that reported award amounts are federal obligations, not revenue or unrestricted cash.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| from_fiscal_year | number | – | – |
| organization | string | yes | Recipient organization name or distinctive fragment. |
| to_fiscal_year | number | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_grants ~401
Search NIH-funded research projects. Filter by free-text query (topic/subject matter — matches title/abstract/terms, NOT the awardee), PI name, organization (the funded company/university/institution — use THIS, not query, for "what grants has <company/university> received"), fiscal year, US state, or NIH institute code (NCI, NHLBI, NIAID, etc.). Returns project number, PI, institution, fiscal year, award amount, and abstract preview.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| fiscal_year | number | – | Fiscal year (e.g., 2024) |
| ic | string | – | NIH Institute/Center code (e.g., "NCI", "NHLBI", "NIMH") |
| limit | number | – | Results per page (1-500, default 25) |
| offset | number | – | Pagination offset (default 0) |
| organization | string | – | The funded organization — the company, university, hospital, or institution that RECEIVED the award (e.g., "Stanford University"). This is the correct filter whenever the question names a specific or… |
| pi_name | string | – | PI last name (or any name part) |
| query | string | – | Free-text search over project title/abstract/terms — an AND match on the SUBJECT MATTER words you pass (e.g. "cancer immunotherapy"), not a lookup by funding recipient. Do NOT put a company, institut… |
| state | string | – | US state code (e.g., "CA") |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_publications ~120
Search publications acknowledging NIH funding. Filter by PMID, application ID, or core project number. Useful for "what came out of this grant" follow-ups.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| appl_ids | string | – | Comma-separated NIH application IDs |
| core_project_nums | string | – | Comma-separated core project numbers (e.g., "R01CA123456") |
| limit | number | – | Results per page (1-500, default 25) |
| offset | number | – | Pagination offset |
| pmids | string | – | Comma-separated PubMed IDs |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Nih Reporter MCP server?
Nih Reporter runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-nih-reporter. 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-nih-reporter
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-nih-reporter -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-nih-reporter
What is the Nih Reporter MCP server?
Nih Reporter is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/nih-reporter. NIH RePORTER MCP, every NIH-funded research project (free, no auth). This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-nih-reporter).
Is the Nih Reporter MCP server safe to use?
Nih Reporter scores 82 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 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 Nih Reporter MCP server expose?
Nih Reporter exposes 9 tools: search_grants, get_project, search_publications, nih_grant_award_history, nih_new_grant_awards, and 4 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,277 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Nih Reporter MCP server still maintained?
Nih Reporter is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 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 Nih Reporter MCP server under?
Nih Reporter declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.