orcid-mcp-serverBLOCK
Search and retrieve researcher profiles, works, affiliations, funding, and peer review records from the ORCID registry via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
@cyanheads/orcid-mcp-server Search and retrieve researcher profiles, works, affiliations, funding, and peer review records from the ORCID registry via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP. 9 Tools • 2 Resources
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cb6e3c25b7adOBSERVED · 2026-10-11Connect
Built from this server's own package name, version and transport as found in its source — not copied from anyone's documentation, so it cannot drift against a page we do not control.
claude mcp add orcid-mcp-server -- npx -y @cyanheads/[email protected] run start:stdio
claude mcp add orcid-mcp-server -- npx -y @cyanheads/[email protected] run start:http
Exposed tools (1)
1 read · 0 write · 0 destructive.
| Tool | Risk | Description |
|---|---|---|
orcid-researcher-works | read | Works list for an ORCID researcher: titles, types, publication dates, journal names, and external identifiers (DOIs, PMIDs, arXiv IDs). Use when providing a researcher |
Trust audit
BLOCKgrade F · trust 48/100 Do not install this without reading the findings. The audit found something that could harm you or your machine.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | PASS |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | FAIL |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | FAIL |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- declared (2 observation(s))
- Network
- declared (2 observation(s))
- Shell
- declared (8 observation(s))
- Dependencies
- not all pinned
- Secrets in source
- none-found
Findings (15)
**Seed orientation context when the next moves are predictable.** Piggybacking a compact snapshot alongside the primary result — recent activity, tracked state, a few reference items — does two things
- **Mirror a bulk upstream instead of paginating it live.** When the server wraps a large or slow API whose corpus is queried far more than it changes, sync it once into a persistent local index and q
Exercise tools, resources, and prompts against a live HTTP server via MCP JSON-RPC over curl. Starts the server, surfaces the catalog, runs real and adversarial inputs, measures every call (bytes, tok
const tsc = await exec([join(ROOT_DIR, 'node_modules', '.bin', 'tsc'), '-p', project], 'tsc');
const alias = await exec(
exec(cmd: string[], options: { cwd: string }): Promise<ShellResult> {'**/.netrc',
| **Server credential** | The server's own upstream key is missing, or the upstream rejects it (401/403) | `ConfigurationError` — translated in the service, since the automatic status mapping yields `
Prereq: a GitHub PAT with `read:org` + `read:user` scopes stored in Keychain under the service name `mcp-publisher-github-pat`:
2. **No `git stash`, no `git reset --hard`, no `git restore .`, no `git clean -f`, no `git checkout -- .`.** These bypass safety and risk silent data loss. Read-only git (`status`, `diff`, `log`, `sho
.mcpbignore
readFileSync(new URL('../../../package.json', import.meta.url), 'utf8'),@cyanheads/mcp-ts-core, pino-pretty, zod, @biomejs/biome, @socketsecurity/bun-security-scanner, @types/node, depcheck, fast-check
- [ ] `.codex-plugin/mcp.json` updated — server name key is the unscoped repo name; every user-supplied variable (API key, contact email, instance URL) is listed in `env_vars` so Codex forwards it fro
- [ ] `.codex-plugin/mcp.json` updated — server name key is the unscoped repo name; every user-supplied variable (API key, contact email, instance URL) is listed in `env_vars` so Codex forwards it fro
Gates applied: critical_finding, instruction_override, no_behavioural_pass, undeclared_transfer.
cb6e3c25b7adfull audit observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/cyanheads__orcid-mcp-server.json · Report an issue / request a re-scanAudit history
Every audit this server has had. A grade with a past is a grade somebody is still checking.
| Date | Source | Verdict | Grade | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-11 | cb6e3c25b7ad | BLOCK | F | 48 | first audit |
Questions
What is the orcid-mcp-server MCP server?
Search and retrieve researcher profiles, works, affiliations, funding, and peer review records from the ORCID registry via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
What tools does orcid-mcp-server expose?
1 in total: 1 read-only, 0 that write, and 0 that can delete or overwrite. Every one is listed on this page with its risk.
Is orcid-mcp-server safe to connect to an agent?
No — not without reading the findings first. The audit graded it F (48/100) and found 10 critical or high issues in the source. Each one is listed on this page with the file and line it is on.
What credentials does orcid-mcp-server need?
No credential environment variables were found in its source, so it appears to need none.
How does orcid-mcp-server run?
It speaks stdio and streamable-http, so it runs as a local process your client starts. It is published on npm as @cyanheads/orcid-mcp-server at 0.3.2.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (cb6e3c25b7ad), read on 2026-10-11. The repository is watched and re-audited when it changes.