# robot-tool-mcp

> MCP server wrapping the ROBOT ontology CLI tool

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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/robot-tool-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Josef Hardi
- homepage: https://github.com/musen-lab/robot-tool-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/musen-lab/robot-tool-mcp
- version: 1.2.2
- license: BSD 2-Clause License
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:robot-tool-mcp

### Description (declared)

# ROBOT Ontology MCP

MCP server wrapping the [ROBOT](https://robot.obolibrary.org/) command-line tool for OWL ontology editing.

## Prerequisites

ROBOT must be installed and available on your `PATH`:

```bash
robot --version
```

See [ROBOT installation](https://robot.obolibrary.org/) for setup instructions.

## Installation

### With uvx (recommended)

```bash
uvx robot-tool-mcp
```

### From source

```bash
git clone https://github.com/<owner>/robot-mcp.git
cd robot-mcp
uv run robot-mcp
```

## Claude Desktop Configuration

Add to your Claude Desktop config (`~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`):

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "robot-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["robot-tool-mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```

Or for local development:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "robot-mcp": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": ["run", "--directory", "/path/to/robot-tool-mcp", "robot-mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```

## Tools

### Individual Command Tools (25 tools)

Each ROBOT command is exposed as a dedicated MCP tool with typed parameters:

| Tool | Description |
|------|-------------|
| `robot_annotate` | Add metadata annotations to an ontology |
| `robot_collapse` | Simplify class hierarchies by removing intermediates |
| `robot_convert` | Transform ontology between formats (OWL, OBO, TTL, etc.) |
| `robot_diff` | Compare two ontologies semantically |
| `robot_expand` | Convert shortcut annotations into OWL axioms |
| `robot_explain` | Debug inferred statements with minimal explanations |
| `robot_export` | Generate tabular output (CSV, TSV, JSON, HTML, XLSX) |
| `robot_extract` | Create a subset module (STAR, BOT, TOP, MIREOT) |
| `robot_filter` | Selectively copy axioms (inverse of remove) |
| `robot_materialize` | Assert inferred superclass relationships |
| `robot_measure` | Compute ontology metrics and statistics |
| `robot_merge` | Combine multiple ontologies into one |
| `robot_mirror` | Cache imported ontologies locally |
| `robot_qu…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.terminal (0.825, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.745, derived)
- documents.spreadsheets (0.722, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/robot-tool-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T11:27:17.102Z)

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