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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