Cassini Mission Plan MCP

A read-only Model Context Protocol server over the Cassini-Huygens mission dataset (~62k activity rows). Built as an AI workshop demo: clean, readable TypeScript that runs live in Claude Desktop.

Live endpoint: https://cassini-mission-plan.paganio.workers.dev

🩺 A plain GET / returns a JSON health/info page. The MCP protocol itself is POST-only JSON-RPC, so any other request gets a 405.

# Health check
curl https://cassini-mission-plan.paganio.workers.dev

# List the tools (JSON-RPC over POST)
curl -X POST https://cassini-mission-plan.paganio.workers.dev \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

What it does

Exposes 7 MCP tools so an LLM client can query the Cassini master_plan table:

Related MCP server: hepdata-mcp

Architecture

• Runtime: Cloudflare Workers (TypeScript)

• Data: Cloudflare D1 (SQLite) — master_plan table + FTS5 virtual table

• Transport: hand-rolled MCP-over-HTTP (JSON-RPC 2.0 over plain HTTP POST)

• Validation: zod schemas per tool; errors surface as JSON-RPC error objects

See docs/ARCHITECTURE.md for the full design.

Project setup

npm install

Run tests

npm test                  # Jest — all specs against in-memory SQLite

The deploy spec (spec/deploy-and-initialize.spec.ts) needs a live URL:

DEPLOY_URL=https://cassini-mission-plan.paganio.workers.dev npm test

Deploy (one-time setup)

1. Create the D1 database:

   npx wrangler d1 create cassini

   Copy the database_id into wrangler.toml.

2. Import the data (generates data/cassini.d1.sql from data/cassini.db):

   npm run import      # tsx scripts/import.ts → writes data/cassini.d1.sql
   npx wrangler d1 execute cassini --remote --file=data/cassini.d1.sql

3. Deploy:

   npm run deploy

Local dev

npm run dev   # wrangler dev (uses local D1)

🔎 Query the data directly

The local D1 starts empty — seed it once from the generated SQL:

npx wrangler d1 execute cassini --local --file=data/cassini.d1.sql

Then run SQL against the master_plan table (drop --local for --remote to hit the deployed DB):

# Top science teams by activity count
npx wrangler d1 execute cassini --local \
  --command="SELECT team, COUNT(*) AS activities FROM master_plan GROUP BY team ORDER BY activities DESC LIMIT 5;"

# Full-text search via the FTS5 table
npx wrangler d1 execute cassini --local \
  --command="SELECT id, title FROM master_plan_fts JOIN master_plan USING(rowid) WHERE master_plan_fts MATCH 'titan flyby' LIMIT 5;"

# Activities targeting Enceladus, earliest first
npx wrangler d1 execute cassini --local \
  --command="SELECT start_iso, title FROM master_plan WHERE target='Enceladus' ORDER BY start_iso LIMIT 5;"

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