nomad-scifm 0.2.0

MCP-Server for SciFMs

Nomad

Nomad connects AI agents to scientific foundation models (SciFMs). It serves PyTorch-backed scientific tools over the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and it can also expose MCP tools as typed Python callables inside a code-execution sandbox.

Documentation site | Getting started | Model builder guide | Reference

What Nomad does

• Serve SciFMs and regular Python tools over MCP with nomad serve.
• Load model artifacts from Hugging Face, local storage, or Git/Git LFS.
• Proxy MCP servers into a Python sandbox with nomad code-mode and nomad code-mode-exec.
• Support both local workflows and hosting models on remote GPU servers.

Install

Nomad requires Python 3.12 or newer.

For CLI use:

uv tool install --python 3.13 nomad-scifm

nomad --help

For development from a checkout:

uv sync --all-groups
uv run nomad --help

Quick start

Launch the example server directly in MCP Inspector using stdio:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector -- \
  uv run --directory container/demo \
  nomad serve nomad.yml

For the HTTP workflow and matching URSA configs, see Starting a Nomad server and Connect to a hosted Nomad server.

Start here by task

If you want to...	Start here
Connect to a running Nomad server	Getting started
Host a new SciFM	Model builder guide
Use Nomad for Inference	Nomad inference notebook
Browse CLI, config, and API docs	Reference
Run the demo deployment	Deployments
Work on Nomad itself	Developer docs

Development

Useful commands from a repo checkout:

uv run --only-group lint just lint
uv run --group dev just test
uv run --no-dev --group docs just docs
uv run --no-dev --group docs just docs-pdf

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