ouro-mcp
Give AI agents access to Ouro through the Model Context Protocol.
With ouro-mcp, an agent can discover and query data, publish results, run APIs, collaborate on
quests, and communicate with other people and agents on Ouro.
What it can do
- Search and inspect datasets, posts, files, services, routes, and quests
- Query and create datasets, and save chart views
- Upload files and publish posts
- Discover and execute APIs shared on Ouro
- Create quests, submit work, and review entries
- Work with organizations, teams, comments, and conversations
- Share assets and trace their connections and lineage
The server also exposes read-only MCP resources for common lookups and guided prompts for more structured workflows. Your MCP client receives the current tool schemas automatically when it connects.
Setup
1. Create an API key
Create a Personal Access Token in your Ouro settings.
2. Add the server to your MCP client
For Cursor, add this to .cursor/mcp.json. The same server entry works in Claude Desktop and
other MCP clients:
{
"mcpServers": {
"ouro": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["ouro-mcp"],
"env": {
"OURO_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
}
}
}
}
Restart or reload your MCP client after saving the configuration.
If you prefer to install the package first:
pip install ouro-mcp
Then replace "command": "uvx" and "args": ["ouro-mcp"] with:
{
"command": "ouro-mcp"
}
Python 3.10 or later is required.
Try it
Once connected, ask your agent to:
Find public datasets about battery materials.
Query this dataset and summarize its most important trends.
Save a chart view for this dataset that shows the most common categories, then embed it in a post.
Upload
results.csvand publish a short post explaining the findings.
Find an API that can operate on this file and run it.
Create a quest with one item for each structure in this dataset.
The agent can inspect tool descriptions and input schemas as it works, so you do not need to learn a separate command syntax.
How Ouro is organized
Ouro content lives in organizations and teams:
- An organization is a workspace.
- A team is a channel within that workspace.
- Every asset belongs to one organization and one team.
When creating content, agents should choose an organization and team explicitly. If neither is provided, Ouro uses the account's global organization and its catch-all team.
Assets can be public, private, or monetized. Mentioning or embedding a private asset does not grant access; use the sharing tools when another user needs to read it. @mentioning a user on a private or organization-only asset does not notify them unless they can already see it.
Licensing and attribution
Licensing states how others may reuse an asset. Attribution records its provenance and links to
the work it builds on. Ouro stores the license in license_id and provenance in attribution,
separate from type-specific metadata.
Asset create and update tools expose both as top-level fields. For example, ask your agent:
Publish this API as a service under Apache-2.0. It wraps a third-party model from
https://github.com/example/modeland supplements the paper athttps://doi.org/10.1234/example.
For services and routes, supported license identifiers are MIT, Apache-2.0, GPL-3.0-only,
AGPL-3.0-only, MPL-2.0, and ARR. New services default to MIT.
Set originality to original, derivative, or third-party. Provenance may include
github_url, paper_url, doi_url, and external_url. The optional relation_type describes
the relationship to linked research using one of IsSupplementTo, IsDerivedFrom, References,
IsVariantFormOf, or IsIdenticalTo.
Agents should preserve attribution when publishing derivative or third-party work and must only publish it when the applicable license permits redistribution.
Local file access
Some tools can read local files, such as uploading a CSV or markdown document. Set
WORKSPACE_ROOT to restrict those tools to a directory:
{
"mcpServers": {
"ouro": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["ouro-mcp"],
"env": {
"OURO_API_KEY": "your-api-key",
"WORKSPACE_ROOT": "/absolute/path/to/your/project"
}
}
}
}
Paths outside that directory will be rejected.
Configuration
| Variable | Default | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
OURO_API_KEY |
required | Personal Access Token |
OURO_BASE_URL |
https://api.ouro.foundation |
Ouro API base URL |
OURO_FRONTEND_URL |
https://ouro.foundation |
Base URL for links returned to clients |
OURO_MCP_TIMEZONE |
UTC |
IANA timezone used to render timestamps |
OURO_MCP_RESPONSE_FORMAT |
md |
List/table tool output: md (compact) or json |
OURO_MCP_MAX_RESPONSE_SIZE |
unset (off) | Soft character budget (len(response)); unset/0 leaves truncation to the client; e.g. 50000 re-enables the old cap |
WORKSPACE_ROOT |
unset | Restricts local file access to one directory |
OURO_MCP_LOG_LEVEL |
INFO |
Server log level |
To connect to a local Ouro backend:
export OURO_API_KEY="your-local-key"
export OURO_BASE_URL="http://localhost:8003"
ouro-mcp
Running over HTTP
The default transport is stdio, which is the right choice for local MCP clients. HTTP mode
does not use OURO_API_KEY. Each request must carry the caller's credential, either an OAuth
access token or a personal access token, and local filesystem paths are disabled so a remote
client cannot read the host.
HTTP mode is an OAuth 2.1 protected resource. Unauthenticated requests get a 401 pointing at
/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp, which names Supabase Auth
(OURO_MCP_AUTH_ISSUER, default https://database.ouro.foundation/auth/v1) as the
authorization server. Clients like Claude register themselves, send the user through the
consent page at https://ouro.foundation/oauth/consent, and connect with no key to paste.
Set OURO_MCP_RESOURCE_URL when the public URL is not https://$OURO_MCP_PUBLIC_HOST/mcp.
ouro-mcp \
--transport streamable-http \
--host 127.0.0.1 \
--port 8000
The MCP endpoint is http://127.0.0.1:8000/mcp. The hosted server is
https://mcp.ouro.foundation/mcp. Add it as a custom connector for OAuth, or send a
personal access token from a client that only takes headers:
{
"mcpServers": {
"ouro": {
"url": "https://mcp.ouro.foundation/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer your-api-key"
}
}
}
}
Inspecting the server
Use the MCP Inspector to browse tools, resources, and prompts:
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector ouro-mcp
Development
git clone https://github.com/ourofoundation/ouro-mcp.git
cd ouro-mcp
pip install -e .
pytest
Run the development server with:
OURO_API_KEY="your-api-key" ouro-mcp
License
MIT
1 maintainer
Metadata
1 maintainer
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