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io.github.mims-harvard/tooluniverse
2,500+ scientific tools for AI scientists: life science, research, literature, and more.
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ToolUniverse is an MCP server exposing 2,500+ scientific tools spanning life science, research, and literature. It is described as an ecosystem for building AI scientist systems from any large language model, using an AI-Tool Interaction Protocol to standardize tool access.
It gives an LLM agent a large standardized catalog of scientific tools over stdio without building each integration yourself.
Use it to
- Connect an AI agent to life science tools
- Add literature search tools to an LLM workflow
- Prototype AI scientist systems
- Standardize tool access via the AI-Tool Interaction Protocol
For Researchers and developers building AI scientist agents
- Runs
- installed — on your machine
- Transport
- stdio
- Packaged as
- pypi:tooluniverse
- Install
- uvx tooluniverse
- Needs
- 17 environment variables, including secrets
- Version
- 1.5.0
- Last release
- 2026-09-16
topicsmcpscientific toolslife scienceliteratureai agentsllm