# root-mcp

> Production-grade MCP server for CERN ROOT file analysis

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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/root-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Mohamed Elashri
- homepage: https://github.com/MohamedElashri/root-mcp/tree/main/docs
- repository: https://github.com/MohamedElashri/root-mcp/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- version: 0.3.1
- protocols: mcp
- tags: root, cern, hep, mcp, particle, physics
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:root-mcp

### Description (declared)

<p align="center">
  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MohamedElashri/root-mcp/main/root-mcp_logo.png" alt="CERN ROOT MCP Server" width="160" />
</p>

<h1 align="center">CERN ROOT MCP Server</h1>

<p align="center">
  An <a href="https://modelcontextprotocol.io/">MCP</a> server and <strong>CLI tool</strong> that allow LLMs to interact with CERN ROOT files.
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> **Repository Mirror**: This repository is mirrored to [CERN GitLab](https://gitlab.cern.ch/itgpt/root-mcp-server) for CERN users. PyPI releases are published via GitHub Actions using attestation-based trusted publishing.

**ROOT-MCP** empowers Large Language Models (LLMs) to natively understand and analyze CERN ROOT files.

By exposing a set of specialized tools via the [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) or a token-efficient <strong>CLI interface</strong>, it turns Claude (and other MCP-compliant agents) into capable physics research assistants that can:
- **Inspect** ROOT file structures (Trees, RNTuples, Branches, Histograms)
- **Analyze** data distributions (Compute Histograms, Statistics)
- **Compute** kinematic quantities (Invariant Mass)
- **Visualize** results (Plot 1D/2D histograms directly)
- **Filter** data using physics cuts ("selections")

> **Why this matters**: Instead of asking an LLM to "write a script" that you have to debug and run, you can ask the LLM to *"Check the muon pT distribution in this file"* and it will **just do it**.

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## Two Interfaces: MCP Server and CLI

ROOT-MCP provides **two ways** to interact with ROOT files:

### 1. MCP Serv…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.version-control (1, derived)
- dev.ci-cd (0.802, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/root-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T11:27:22.255Z)

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