AIND Data MCP

Official Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics MCP server for querying AIND’s V2 metadata DocDB and inspecting NWB assets. Supersedes the now-archived aind-metadata-mcp.

   
Type MCP server
Supplier Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics
Availability Beta — active through April 2026
Pricing Free / OSS (MIT)
Capabilities Read-only — public read access to AIND DocDB
Verified degraded · 2026-07-29 — PyPI package resolves but upstream now ships a remote HTTP endpoint; install block fixed to the HTTP transport this run
Security cleared · 2026-07-29 — provenance matches Allen Institute, PyPI MIT, maintained, read-only, no OSV advisories

The server is now hosted by AIND as a remote HTTP MCP endpoint (https://metadata-portal.allenneuraldynamics.org/mcp/); no local install is required.

Register with Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http aind_data_access https://metadata-portal.allenneuraldynamics.org/mcp/

Or for Claude Desktop, add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aind_data_access": { "type": "http", "url": "https://metadata-portal.allenneuraldynamics.org/mcp/" }
  }
}

What it does

  • MongoDB-style filter / projection queries against the AIND DocDB
  • Aggregation pipelines across AIND data assets
  • NWB file metadata access (V2 schema)

Primary use cases: Find AIND open neurophysiology / imaging datasets; build cohort queries over the AIND DocDB; inspect NWB structure before downstream pipelines.

Notes

stdio transport, public read access, Python 3.11+. The V1 predecessor aind-metadata-mcp is archived — use this one.

Sources

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