# cava-mcp

> CaVa MCP server — read-only agentive access to OMOP vocab, cohorts, and clinical vocabularies.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/cava-mcp/claim

## Declared
- version: 0.1.2
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:cava-mcp

### Description (declared)

# cava-mcp

**cava-mcp** is an atomic, read-only MCP (Model Context Protocol) tool library for
navigating the OMOP vocabularies.  It exposes OMOP vocabulary lookups, embedding similarity search, 
cohort concept references, and system status as typed MCP tools that any MCP client can call —
including [cava-datahub](https://github.com/AustralianCancerDataNetwork/cava-datahub),
Claude Code, and autonomous agents.

Read-only.  No patient-level data.  No write operations.

## What it exposes

| Group | Tools |
|---|---|
| **Concept** | `concept_get`, `concept_by_code`, `concept_ancestors`, `concept_descendants`, `concept_relationships`, `concept_equivalency_path`, `concept_path`, `concept_map_to_standard`, `concept_neighbors` |
| **Resolver** | `concept_ground` (with `parent_ids`, scoring fields, and `grounding_explanation`) |
| **Search** | `concept_search_exact`, `concept_search_fulltext`, `concept_navigate_to_standard` |
| **Embedding** | `embedding_index_status`, `embedding_neighbours`, `embedding_search`, `embedding_encode` |
| **Cohort** | `cohort_find_concept_references` |
| **System** | `system_status`, `system_vocabulary_catalogue` |

Tools are registered conditionally — if an adapter is not configured, its tools are
simply not registered.  `system_status` and `system_vocabulary_catalogue` are always
registered so clients can always query adapter availability.

## Quick start

```bash
uv venv
uv sync --extra dev --extra embedding-tools
uv run cava-mcp --config config/cava-mcp.example.yaml --describe
```

Start the server:

```bash
uv run cava-mcp --config config/cava-mcp.example.yaml
```

## Example config

```yaml
omop_graph:
  db_url: "postgresql+psycopg://user:pass@localhost:5432/omop"
  vocab_schema: omop_vocab

omop_emb:
  enabled: true
  backend_type: pgvector
  db_url: "postgresql+psycopg://user:pass@localhost:5432/omop"
  default_model_name: qwen3-embedding:0.6b
  api_base: "http://localhost:11434/v1"
  api_key: "ollama"
```

## Install matrix

| Use ca…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.database (0.814, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/cava-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T11:29:49.648Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/cava-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/cava-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:cava-mcp