# nuance-gms-mcp

> Model Context Protocol server for Gatan Microscopy Suite 3.60 — multimodal TEM/STEM/EELS/4D-STEM control via local LLMs

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
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## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/nuance-gms-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/NUANCE-IT/Gatan_MCP/blob/main/docs/index.md
- repository: https://github.com/NUANCE-IT/Gatan_MCP/issues
- version: 0.1.1
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: electron, microscopy, tem, stem, 4d-stem, eels, mcp, model, context, protocol, llm, ollama, gatan, digitalmicrograph, autonomous
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:nuance-gms-mcp

### Description (declared)

# GMS-MCP 🔬

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> **A vendor-agnostic, privacy-preserving Model Context Protocol server for multimodal electron microscopy control via local large language models.**

GMS-MCP connects **Gatan Microscopy Suite (GMS) 3.60** to any MCP-compatible LLM — running entirely on your institution's hardware, with zero cloud dependencies.

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## Highlights

| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| Instrument API | Gatan DigitalMicrograph / GMS 3.60 |
| LLM backend | Local Ollama (air-gap compatible) |
| Voice control | Optional local push-to-talk + Whisper transcription |
| Data handling | On-site, local-first workflow |
| Modalities | TEM / HRTEM, STEM (HAADF/BF/ABF), 4D-STEM / NBED, EELS, diffraction |
| Built-in analysis | Virtual BF/HAADF, CoM, DPC, radial profiles, max-FFT, filtering, maximum-spot mapping |
| Automation | Stage control, beam/optics control, detector configuration, tilt series, persistent live-processing jobs |
| Validation | Pydantic v2 physical-bound checks on tool inputs |
| Simulation | Physics-plausible DMSimulator for hardware-free development |
| Testing | 67-test suite (61 hardware-independent + 6 Ollama integration) |
| Transport | stdio + Streamable HTTP + optional ZeroMQ live-job bridge |
| License | MIT |

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## Architecture

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## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- media.speech-recognition (0.859, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/nuance-gms-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T08:25:42.264Z)

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