# orchid-mcp

> MCP server and static JSON API description for ORCHID CALPHAD data (literature values, phase diagrams, DFT hulls, TDB catalog) with full provenance

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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/orchid-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Raymundo Arróyave
- homepage: https://orchid-project.org
- version: 0.1.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: calphad, mcp, thermodynamics, phase, diagrams, tdb
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:orchid-mcp

### Description (declared)

# orchid-mcp

An [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server for **ORCHID** (Open Repository for CALPHAD Hypotheses,
Intelligence, and Discovery): literature thermodynamic and phase-equilibrium values, calculated binary phase
diagrams, Materials Project / OQMD formation energies and the TDB catalog — every value returned with its
citation, DOI, page, quote (or table locator), evidence class and flags. Also: an OpenAPI description of the static
JSON files at `data.orchid-project.org` (`openapi/openapi.yaml`).

## Install

```bash
python3.13 -m venv .venv                 # a dedicated environment (git-ignored)
.venv/bin/pip install -e '.[mcp]'        # with the official MCP Python SDK, pinned to mcp==2.3.0 (recommended)
.venv/bin/pip install -e .               # stdlib only: built-in stdio fallback server, no HTTP mode
```

The package itself has no runtime dependencies. If the `mcp` SDK is installed, the server runs on it (`MCPServer` in
mcp 2.x, tested with 2.3.0; `FastMCP` in mcp 1.x is also supported); otherwise
`orchid-mcp` serves the MCP stdio protocol (tools, resources, prompts) with a small built-in JSON-RPC loop.
Streamable HTTP (`--transport http`) needs `pip install mcp`.

## Data source

| variable | default | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| `ORCHID_DATA_DIR` | — | local copy of `data.orchid-project.org` (an `orchid-data` checkout). If set, no network is used. |
| `ORCHID_DATA_URL` | `https://data.orchid-project.org/` | online data |
| `ORCHID_SITE_DATA_DIR` | — | local copy of `orchid-project.org/data` (`catalog.json`, `databases/`) |
| `ORCHID_SITE_DATA_URL` | `https://orchid-project.org/data/` | online catalog and bundled TDB files |
| `ORCHID_CACHE_DIR` | `~/.cache/orchid-mcp` | on-disk cache of remote files |
| `ORCHID_CACHE_TTL` | `86400` | seconds before a cached file is refetched (stale copies are used if offline) |
| `ORCHID_OFFLINE` | — | `1`: never touch the network, serve from the cache |

## Run

```bash
orchid-mcp                                …

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.package-management (0.859, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.791, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/orchid-mcp/ (first seen 2026-10-30T20:22:07.625Z)

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