The IPT servers this MCP can talk to (name, URL, default, whether it has credentials, read-only). Never shows credentials.

IPT status (disk, registry/network flags). Public.

List published datasets of the IPT (id, title, version, records, core, DwC-A/EML URLs). Public: private resources do not appear. query matches id and title; with searchMetadata it also looks in each dataset's abstract and keywords ("datasets that mention plants"). A records value of 0 means the IPT inventory reports no count, not necessarily an empty dataset.

Fetch a published dataset's EML and return a summary (title, abstract, license, contact count).

Validate a local Darwin Core text file BEFORE uploading it: column-count consistency (embedded newlines/tabs), UTF-8/mojibake, year/month/day and lat/long ranges, duplicate occurrenceID. Streams; safe for multi-GB files.

Resources the configured IPT user can manage (needs IPT_EMAIL/IPT_PASSWORD).

Status of a resource: visibility, sources (rows/columns), mappings, metadata validity and problems, published/next version.

Pre-flight check before publishing: invalid metadata (per section), missing/unanalysed sources, missing mappings, unmapped required terms. The IPT itself does NOT block these.

Extension row types available for mapping on this resource.

Show a mapping: source columns, ID column, the term assignments (mapped terms and required unmapped terms unless all=true), the source columns that are not mapped to any term, and the required terms still unmapped.

First rows of a source as the IPT parsed them.

State of the latest publication (running/completed/failed) and the tail of the publication log.

Editable fields (names and current values) of a metadata section, to use with ipt_set_metadata_fields. Sections: basic, contacts, acknowledgements, geocoverage, taxcoverage, tempcoverage, additionalDescription, keywords, project, methods, citations, collections, physical, additional.

The draft EML the IPT currently holds for the resource.

Publication options form (page: auto-publish | publication-settings).

[writes to the IPT] Create a resource, empty or importing a Darwin Core Archive (.zip) from a local path.

[writes to the IPT] Set title, description, license (cczero | ccby | ccbync), language, update frequency, type. Omitted fields are left as they are.

[writes to the IPT] Replace agent lists. The IPT requires at least one contact and one creator; lists not given keep their current rows. Each agent needs a last name, an organisation or a position.

[writes to the IPT] Replace geographic, taxonomic and/or temporal coverage (only the ones given).

[writes to the IPT] Replace keyword sets and/or methods (study extent, sampling, quality control, steps).

[writes to the IPT] Save any metadata section by raw field names (get them with ipt_get_metadata_form). Repeatable items use indexed names such as eml.citation.citation or eml.physicalData[0].name.

[writes to the IPT] Replace the resource's metadata with an EML file from a local path.

[writes to the IPT] Add a data source: a local file (.txt/.csv/.tsv/.xlsx/.zip), a URL, or an (unconfigured) SQL source. Text files are validated first and refused when they have problems (embedded newlines/tabs, bad encoding, …) unless skipValidation.

[writes to the IPT] Set how a source is parsed (delimiter, quote character, header lines, encoding, date format) and re-analyse it; for SQL sources pass raw fields (host, database, credentials, SQL).

[writes to the IPT] Delete a source (its mappings must be removed first).

[writes to the IPT] Map a source to an extension (Occurrence, Taxon, Event, …). The IPT automaps columns by header name. Refuses a second mapping of the same row type unless allowDuplicate (it multiplies published records).

[writes to the IPT] Adjust a mapping: columns maps a term (URI, dwc:name or name) to a source column header (null to unmap); defaults gives constant values; idColumn picks the record ID column.

[writes to the IPT] Delete a mapping.

[writes to the IPT] Save publication options (page auto-publish: updateFrequency, updateFrequencyDayOfWeek, updateFrequencyDay, updateFrequencyTime, skipUnchanged, …).

[writes to the IPT] Validate then publish a new version (DwC-A + EML). Refuses when the pre-flight finds problems. Waits for completion by default. Note: making a resource public also needs a publication to take effect.

[writes to the IPT] Request public/private visibility. The IPT applies the change at the next publication (a new version).

[writes to the IPT] Delete a resource from the IPT (never touches the GBIF registry).