Medical Terminologies MCP

Terminology Versions

terminology_versions

Read-onlyIdempotent

Lists version, release date, publisher, source URL, and update cadence for each queried terminology, with optional filtering. Use it to verify data releases before batch runs or cite versions.

Instructions

List the current version, release date, publisher, source URL, and update cadence of every terminology this server queries against.

Useful for pipeline maintainers who need to:

Confirm which release of ICD-11 / LOINC / RxNorm / MeSH / ATC the server is querying before a batch run.
Verify the bundled CID-10 (frozen at V2008) and ICD-10 → ICD-11 transition tables (currently 2025-01) match expectations.
Cite the data version in research artifacts.

Pass terminology to filter to a single entry; otherwise the full set of 7 is returned. The ICD-10 → ICD-11 version reads live from the bundled dataset; everything else is metadata maintained alongside the project release.

Input Schema

Name	Required	Description	Default
`terminology`	No	Filter to a single terminology. Omit to return all 7.

Output Schema

Name	Required	Description
`total`	Yes	Number of terminologies listed.
`generated`	Yes	Date this snapshot was generated.
`provenance`	Yes	Provenance block: source, URL, data vintage, extraction instant, origin diagnostics, citation, license
`attribution`	Yes	Canonical source URLs of this response (attribution list)
`terminologies`	Yes	Release this server queries for each terminology (all 7, or the one requested): publisher, current version, release date, update cadence, source and changelog links, and whether the data is bundled in the server.

Schema Changelog

Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.

Changed2 schema fields changedv2.4.0Oct 29, 2026

addedOutput schema / properties / terminologies / description

Added value: +"Release this server queries for each terminology (all 7, or the one requested): publisher, current version, release date, update cadence, source and changelog links, and whether the data is bundled in the server."

addedOutput schema / properties / total / description
```
Added value: +"Number of terminologies listed."
```

Changed7 schema fields changedv2.3.0Oct 16, 2026

changedOutput schema / properties / provenance / description

Previous value: -"Provenance block (contract v1.1): source, URL, data vintage, extraction instant, origin diagnostics, citation, license"New value: +"Provenance block: source, URL, data vintage, extraction instant, origin diagnostics, citation, license"

addedOutput schema / properties / provenance / properties / derivation_note

Added value: +{
+  "description": "What this server computed; present together with derived",
+  "type": "string"
+}

addedOutput schema / properties / provenance / properties / derived

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Present (true) only when this server computed the value (e.g. a ranking or summary statistics) instead of passing on what the source returned",
+  "type": "boolean"
+}

changedOutput schema / properties / provenance / properties / field_sources / description

Previous value: -"Present only when the response joins parts from different origins or extraction instants (contract v1.2): for each group of fields, its URL, extraction instant and whether it came from cache. Absent in single-origin responses"New value: +"Present only when the response joins parts from different origins or extraction instants: for each group of fields, its URL, extraction instant and whether it came from cache. Absent in single-origin responses"

addedOutput schema / properties / provenance / properties / notices

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Caveats the source publishes about the data, verbatim (license statements are not repeated here; see the info://licenses resource). Absent when there is none",
+  "items": {
+    "type": "string"
+  },
+  "minItems": 1,
+  "type": "array"
+}

changedOutput schema / properties / provenance / properties / retrieval / description

Previous value: -"Origin diagnostics of THIS source in this call (contract v1.1): requests made to the upstream, attempts summed across retries, anomalies worked around (kind + count); unstable=true when any anomaly happened. null when nothing was measured (bundled dataset, or response served entirely from cache)"New value: +"Origin diagnostics of THIS source in this call: requests made to the upstream, attempts summed across retries, anomalies worked around (kind + count); unstable=true when any anomaly happened. null when nothing was measured (bundled dataset, or response served entirely from cache)"

addedOutput schema / properties / provenance / properties / revision

Added value: +{
+  "additionalProperties": false,
+  "description": "Whether the data can still change at the source: current = the version in force, the source may revise it; provisional = preliminary; final = will not change. Absent when unknown",
+  "properties": {
+    "note": {
+      "description": "O específico da fonte: o que revisa, quando, por quê",
+      "type": [
+        "string",
+        "null"
+      ]
+    },
+    "status": {
+      "description": "current = versão vigente, a fonte pode revisá-la; provisional = preliminar, incompleta ou sujeita a mudança (não compare como se fosse fechada); final = não muda mais, declarado pela fonte",
+      "enum": [
+        "current",
+        "provisional",
+        "final"
+      ],
+      "type": "string"
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "status",
+    "note"
+  ],
+  "type": "object"
+}

Changed1 schema field changedv2.1.1Oct 7, 2026

addedOutput schema / properties / provenance / properties / field_sources

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Present only when the response joins parts from different origins or extraction instants (contract v1.2): for each group of fields, its URL, extraction instant and whether it came from cache. Absent in single-origin responses",
+  "items": {
+    "additionalProperties": false,
+    "description": "Proveniência de um grupo de campos da resposta: de onde veio e quando foi extraído",
+    "properties": {
+      "data_vintage": {
+        "description": "Vintage/competência da sub-fonte",
+        "type": [
+          "string",
+          "null"
+        ]
+      },
+      "dataset_id": {
+        "description": "Identificador do conjunto da sub-fonte",
+        "type": [
+          "string",
+          "null"
+        ]
+      },
+      "fields": {
+        "description": "Campos do payload atribuídos a esta sub-fonte",
+        "items": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "minItems": 1,
+        "type": "array"
+      },
+      "retrieved_at": {
+        "description": "ISO-8601 da extração desta sub-fonte na origem",
+        "type": [
+          "string",
+          "null"
+        ]
+      },
+      "served_from_cache": {
+        "description": "true se esta sub-fonte veio do cache do servidor (retrieved_at é o da extração original); false se foi buscada nesta chamada; null se o servidor não distingue",
+        "type": [
+          "boolean",
+          "null"
+        ]
+      },
+      "source_url": {
+        "description": "URL canônica da sub-fonte que originou estes campos",
+        "type": "string"
+      }
+    },
+    "required": [
+      "fields",
+      "source_url",
+      "dataset_id",
+      "data_vintage",
+      "retrieved_at"
+    ],
+    "type": "object"
+  },
+  "minItems": 1,
+  "type": "array"
+}

Changed3 schema fields changedv2.0.0Oct 4, 2026

changedInput schema / properties / terminology / description

Previous value: -"Filter to a single terminology. Omit to return all 8."New value: +"Filter to a single terminology. Omit to return all 7."

changedInput schema / properties / terminology / enum

Previous value: -[
-  "icd11",
-  "icd10",
-  "snomed",
-  "loinc",
-  "rxnorm",
-  "mesh",
-  "atc",
-  "cid10"
-]New value: +[
+  "icd11",
+  "icd10",
+  "loinc",
+  "rxnorm",
+  "mesh",
+  "atc",
+  "cid10"
+]

changedOutput schema / properties / terminologies / items / properties / code / enum

Previous value: -[
-  "icd11",
-  "icd10",
-  "snomed",
-  "loinc",
-  "rxnorm",
-  "mesh",
-  "atc",
-  "cid10"
-]New value: +[
+  "icd11",
+  "icd10",
+  "loinc",
+  "rxnorm",
+  "mesh",
+  "atc",
+  "cid10"
+]

Changed3 schema fields changedv1.15.0Sep 27, 2026

changedOutput schema / properties / provenance / description

Previous value: -"Provenance block (contract v1.0): source, URL, data vintage, extraction instant, citation, license"New value: +"Provenance block (contract v1.1): source, URL, data vintage, extraction instant, origin diagnostics, citation, license"

addedOutput schema / properties / provenance / properties / retrieval

Added value: +{
+  "anyOf": [
+    {
+      "additionalProperties": false,
+      "properties": {
+        "anomalies": {
+          "description": "Anomalias superadas até o sucesso, somadas por classe, em ordem fixa; [] se nenhuma",
+          "items": {
+            "additionalProperties": false,
+            "properties": {
+              "count": {
+                "description": "Ocorrências desta classe na chamada",
+                "maximum": 9007199254740991,
+                "minimum": 1,
+                "type": "integer"
+              },
+              "kind": {
+                "description": "Classe da anomalia (vocabulário fechado do contrato)",
+                "enum": [
+                  "timeout",
+                  "network",
+                  "http_4xx",
+                  "http_5xx",
+                  "rate_limited",
+                  "malformed_body"
+                ],
+                "type": "string"
+              }
+            },
+            "required": [
+              "kind",
+              "count"
+            ],
+            "type": "object"
+          },
+          "type": "array"
+        },
+        "attempts": {
+          "description": "Tentativas somadas, incluindo as repetidas (>= requests)",
+          "maximum": 9007199254740991,
+          "minimum": 1,
+          "type": "integer"
+        },
+        "requests": {
+          "description": "Idas distintas à origem que compõem esta resposta (fatias, páginas)",
+          "maximum": 9007199254740991,
+          "minimum": 1,
+          "type": "integer"
+        },
+        "unstable": {
+          "description": "true se houve repetição (attempts > requests) ou alguma anomalia",
+          "type": "boolean"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "requests",
+        "attempts",
+        "anomalies",
+        "unstable"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "null"
+    }
+  ],
+  "description": "Origin diagnostics of THIS source in this call (contract v1.1): requests made to the upstream, attempts summed across retries, anomalies worked around (kind + count); unstable=true when any anomaly happened. null when nothing was measured (bundled dataset, or response served entirely from cache)"
+}

changedOutput schema / properties / provenance / required

Previous value: -[
-  "source",
-  "source_url",
-  "data_vintage",
-  "retrieved_at",
-  "citation",
-  "license"
-]New value: +[
+  "source",
+  "source_url",
+  "data_vintage",
+  "retrieved_at",
+  "retrieval",
+  "citation",
+  "license"
+]

Changed1 schema field changedv1.11.0Sep 15, 2026
- addedInput schema / additionalProperties
```
Added value: +false
```
Changed8 schema fields changedv1.9.1Sep 1, 2026
- removedOutput schema / properties / provenance / properties / data_vintage / anyOf
```
Removed value: -[
-  {
-    "type": "string"
-  },
-  {
-    "type": "null"
-  }
-]
```
- addedOutput schema / properties / provenance / properties / data_vintage / type
```
Added value: +[
+  "string",
+  "null"
+]
```
- removedOutput schema / properties / provenance / properties / license / anyOf
```
Removed value: -[
-  {
-    "type": "string"
-  },
-  {
-    "type": "null"
-  }
-]
```
- addedOutput schema / properties / provenance / properties / license / type
```
Added value: +[
+  "string",
+  "null"
+]
```
- removedOutput schema / properties / terminologies / items / properties / changelog_url / anyOf
```
Removed value: -[
-  {
-    "type": "string"
-  },
-  {
-    "type": "null"
-  }
-]
```
- addedOutput schema / properties / terminologies / items / properties / changelog_url / type
```
Added value: +[
+  "string",
+  "null"
+]
```
- removedOutput schema / properties / terminologies / items / properties / notes / anyOf
```
Removed value: -[
-  {
-    "type": "string"
-  },
-  {
-    "type": "null"
-  }
-]
```
- addedOutput schema / properties / terminologies / items / properties / notes / type
```
Added value: +[
+  "string",
+  "null"
+]
```

Changed3 schema fields changedv1.8.0Aug 10, 2026

addedOutput schema / properties / attribution

Added value: +{
+  "description": "Canonical source URLs of this response (attribution list)",
+  "items": {
+    "type": "string"
+  },
+  "type": "array"
+}

addedOutput schema / properties / provenance

Added value: +{
+  "additionalProperties": false,
+  "description": "Provenance block (contract v1.0): source, URL, data vintage, extraction instant, citation, license",
+  "properties": {
+    "citation": {
+      "description": "Ready-to-use citation/attribution string",
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "data_vintage": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ],
+      "description": "Version/release of the data as exposed by the source; null when not exposed"
+    },
+    "license": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        {
+          "type": "null"
+        }
+      ],
+      "description": "License / legal regime of the data"
+    },
+    "retrieved_at": {
+      "description": "Real instant of the upstream extraction (ISO-8601, UTC). Responses served from cache keep the ORIGINAL fetch instant.",
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "source": {
+      "description": "Official upstream source of this data",
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "source_url": {
+      "description": "Canonical URL of the source (API base or dataset release)",
+      "type": "string"
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "source",
+    "source_url",
+    "data_vintage",
+    "retrieved_at",
+    "citation",
+    "license"
+  ],
+  "type": "object"
+}

changedOutput schema / required

Previous value: -[
-  "generated",
-  "total",
-  "terminologies"
-]New value: +[
+  "generated",
+  "total",
+  "terminologies",
+  "provenance",
+  "attribution"
+]

Changed7 schema fields changedv1.5.7Jun 21, 2026
- removedInput schema / additionalProperties
```
Removed value: -false
```
- addedOutput schema / properties / terminologies / items / properties / changelog_url / anyOf
```
Added value: +[
+  {
+    "type": "string"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "null"
+  }
+]
```
- removedOutput schema / properties / terminologies / items / properties / changelog_url / type
```
Removed value: -[
-  "string",
-  "null"
-]
```
- addedOutput schema / properties / terminologies / items / properties / notes / anyOf
```
Added value: +[
+  {
+    "type": "string"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "null"
+  }
+]
```
- removedOutput schema / properties / terminologies / items / properties / notes / type
```
Removed value: -[
-  "string",
-  "null"
-]
```
- addedOutput schema / properties / total / maximum
```
Added value: +9007199254740991
```
- addedOutput schema / properties / total / minimum
```
Added value: +-9007199254740991
```
Addedv1.4.0May 12, 2026

TDQS

A4.5/5.0

Behavior4/5

Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?

With readOnly/idempotent annotations already covering the safety profile, the description adds genuinely new behavioral facts: the default result set is 7 entries, and the ICD-10 → ICD-11 version is read live from the bundled dataset while the rest is release-maintained metadata. That provenance distinction is real value; it just doesn't discuss ordering or freshness caveats for the metadata entries.

Agents need to know what a tool does to the world before calling it. Descriptions should go beyond structured annotations to explain consequences.

Conciseness4/5

Is the description appropriately sized, front-loaded, and free of redundancy?

Front-loaded with the core statement, then a scannable bullet list, then the filtering and data-provenance notes. Slightly long for a one-parameter read tool, and a stray 'CID-10' spelling versus the 'cid10' enum value could momentarily confuse the mapping, but nothing is padded.

Shorter descriptions cost fewer tokens and are easier for agents to parse. Every sentence should earn its place.

Completeness5/5

Given the tool's complexity, does the description cover enough for an agent to succeed on first attempt?

An output schema exists, so return values need no prose explanation; the description still covers what is returned, the default cardinality, filtering behavior, and where each entry's data comes from. For a simple read-only metadata tool, an agent has everything needed to call it correctly.

Complex tools with many parameters or behaviors need more documentation. Simple tools need less. This dimension scales expectations accordingly.

Parameters5/5

Does the description clarify parameter syntax, constraints, interactions, or defaults beyond what the schema provides?

Schema coverage is already 100% and the enum is self-documenting, yet the description still adds meaning beyond the schema by stating the exact set size returned when the filter is omitted ('otherwise the full set of 7 is returned'). This makes the omit-vs-filter tradeoff concrete.

Input schemas describe structure but not intent. Descriptions should explain non-obvious parameter relationships and valid value ranges.

Purpose5/5

Does the description clearly state what the tool does and how it differs from similar tools?

The description names a specific verb ('List') and resource (terminology versions), and enumerates the returned fields (version, release date, publisher, source URL, update cadence). It is unmistakably distinct from siblings like terminology_diff or validate_codes, which operate on codes rather than server metadata.

Agents choose between tools based on descriptions. A clear purpose with a specific verb and resource helps agents select the right tool.

Usage Guidelines4/5

Does the description explain when to use this tool, when not to, or what alternatives exist?

Three concrete use cases are given (pre-batch-run version check, verifying bundled ICD-10/transition tables, citation in research artifacts), which establishes clear context for invocation. It stops short of explicitly naming alternatives or when-not-to-use cases, so it is a strong 4 rather than a 5.

Agents often have multiple tools that could apply. Explicit usage guidance like "use X instead of Y when Z" prevents misuse.