epwforge-mcp

MCP server for EPWForge — give Claude, Cursor, and other AI agents the ability to search, analyze, chart, and generate weather files for building energy simulation.

v0.2.0 — 4-tool consolidation. Three of the four tools (find_station, analyze_weather, chart_weather) work without an API key, so anyone can explore EPWForge from Claude without signing up. Only generate_weather_file (which delivers actual EPW/DDY files) requires authentication and charges credits.

What is EPWForge?

EPWForge generates and morphs weather files (.epw, .ddy) for building energy simulation tools — EnergyPlus, OpenStudio, IES VE, eQUEST, and any workflow that consumes EPW. The platform supports:

• TMYx generation anywhere — typical meteorological years synthesized from ERA5 reanalysis for any global lat/lon
• AMY (Actual Meteorological Year) — historical hourly weather for hindcasting and calibration
• CMIP6 climate morphing — apply future-scenario deltas (SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0) at 7 warming percentiles, plus SSP5-8.5 as an opt-in extreme stress test. SSP3-7.0 is the recommended high-end for design.
• Urban Heat Island adjustment — Stewart & Oke LCZ presets (suburban / urban / dense_urban)
• Extreme event injection — heat waves, cold snaps, humidity events, wind events, with auto-compound blending and per-event intensity (1-10 slider, AR6-auto-fill under SSP)
• Wildfire smoke overlays — CAMS-derived AOD with Beer-Lambert solar attenuation
• Per-model CMIP6 ensembles — ~20 morphed EPWs (one per model) for inter-model uncertainty

Tools

The 3 read tools route purely through public endpoints when given a URL — pure local fetch + parse. When given a config they route through the hosted EPWForge MCP at https://epwforge.com/api/mcp so the morph/UHI/event/smoke pipeline runs on EPWForge infrastructure (the synthesized EPW never reaches the caller).

Quick examples

No-auth: explore Boston's future climate

# 1. find a nearby station
stations = await find_station(query="Boston", max_results=3)
epw_url = stations["stations"][0]["files"][0]["epw_url"]

# 2. analyze that EPW (purely local — fetches and parses)
stats = await analyze_weather(url=epw_url)
# → cooling 89.1 F, heating 16.0 F, HDD/CDD 5265/914 ...

# 3. preview what a 2050 SSP3-7.0 + urban-UHI scenario looks like
# (routes through hosted MCP — runs the pipeline, returns stats only)
# SSP3-7.0 is the recommended high-end for design; SSP5-8.5 is an opt-in extreme stress test.
future = await analyze_weather(config={
    "lat": 42.36, "lon": -71.06,
    "ssp": "ssp370", "year": 2050, "uhi": "urban",
})
# → cooling 91.4 F (+2.3), heating 23.8 F (+7.8) ...

# 4. chart it
svg = await chart_weather(config={
    "lat": 42.36, "lon": -71.06, "ssp": "ssp370", "year": 2050,
}, chart_type="diurnal")

With auth: deliver an EPW

# Requires EPWFORGE_API_KEY in env
await generate_weather_file(
    lat=40.71, lon=-74.01,
    ssp="ssp370", year=2090, percentile=90,
    uhi="urban",
    events="heatwave,hothumid",
    event_duration=14,
    smoke=True, smoke_intensity=5,
    save_to="/tmp/nyc_2090_worst_case.epw",
)
# → {saved_to, bytes_written, weather_basis, ...}

Install

pip install epwforge-mcp

Or use uvx (no install needed):

uvx epwforge-mcp

Requires Python ≥ 3.10.

Connecting to Claude / Cursor

Read-only (no signup)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "epwforge": {
      "command": "epwforge-mcp"
    }
  }
}

That's it — find_station, analyze_weather, and chart_weather all work immediately. generate_weather_file will return a clear "API key required" message if invoked.

With API key (unlocks generate_weather_file)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "epwforge": {
      "command": "epwforge-mcp",
      "env": {
        "EPWFORGE_API_KEY": "sk_live_..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Free signup at epwforge.com/account gets you an API key and 5 welcome credits.

One-command setup

# With API key
epwforge-mcp install --api-key sk_live_...

# Read-only (no key)
epwforge-mcp install --no-api-key

Auto-detects Claude Desktop / Claude Code / Cursor configs.

Pricing & credit costs

Generation is the only paid surface:

Plans: Free ($0, 5 lifetime credits) · Starter ($49/mo, 10) · Pro ($149/mo, 50) · Pro+ ($249/mo, 100). Full pricing at epwforge.com/pricing.

Breaking changes from 0.1.x

v0.2.0 is a tool-name rewrite. The old tool surface is gone — agents calling generate_design_day, generate_ensemble, generate_batch, get_station_epw, analyze_epw, compare_scenarios, chart_diurnal_profile, or chart_compare_scenarios will get "tool not found" errors.

Migration map:

Environment variables

Behavior notes

• File output: generate_weather_file accepts save_to (single mode) or save_to_dir (ensemble / batch). When set, files write to disk and only paths/byte counts come back — keeps agent context lean. Without it, files return base64-encoded inline.
• Compound events: events="heatwave,hothumid" automatically blends humidity onto the heatwave. events="coldsnap,coldwindy" does the same for wind onto cold. Folded into the primary stitch — not stitched separately.
• Event placement: events anchor at the cell's hottest day (heat-family) or coldest day (cold-family) and are centered for the requested duration. The peak day's diurnal cycle is sustained across the event.
• AR6 SSP auto-fill: with an SSP scenario active, unspecified event intensities auto-fill from IPCC AR6 ensemble factors. Cold events stay at intensity 5 (no future amplification — recent obs don't support cold-side dampening). Pass intensity_auto=False to disable.
• Anon morphing safety: when analyze_weather or chart_weather is called with a config, the request routes to the hosted MCP at epwforge.com/api/mcp. The pipeline runs on EPWForge infra; the synthesized EPW never reaches the local client. Returns stats / SVG only.

Development

git clone https://github.com/guzz-labs/epwforge-mcp
cd epwforge-mcp/python
uv sync
uv run epwforge-mcp

To test against a local API:

EPWFORGE_BASE_URL=http://localhost:3000 \
EPWFORGE_API_KEY=sk_live_... \
uv run epwforge-mcp

Links

• Website: epwforge.com
• MCP landing page: epwforge.com/mcp
• Pricing: epwforge.com/pricing
• Maker: Guzzlabs
• Issues: github.com/guzz-labs/epwforge-mcp/issues

License

MIT