Wanatux Labs

An MCP server for the Open Science Framework (OSF). Point any MCP client at it and ask about a research project by its OSF id.

No credentials. No accounts. It reads the public OSF API and returns structured JSON.

osf.io/bvy3q  ->  "From Automation to Agency: Observations from a
                   Local-First, Conversational Personal Systems Lab"
                   10 components, 8 tags, public since 2025-12-26

Use the hosted server

Nothing to install — add this URL to any MCP client that supports remote servers:

https://labs.wanatux.net/mcp

For Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http wanatux-labs https://labs.wanatux.net/mcp

The hosted instance is rate limited to 60 requests/minute per IP.

Or run it yourself

pip install git+https://github.com/jayala-wt/wanatux-labs-mcp
wanatux-labs-mcp            # serves on :8101, override with WANATUX_MCP_PORT

Tools

Tool	Returns
osf_get_project(project_id)	Title, category, description, tags, dates, public flag, URL
osf_get_abstract(project_id)	Just the abstract text, plus a has_abstract flag
osf_list_components(project_id)	Child components with ids, titles, categories, URLs

All three are read-only and idempotent. project_id is the short code in an OSF URL — https://osf.io/bvy3q/ → bvy3q. A full OSF URL is accepted too, so pasting works.

Example

// osf_list_components("bvy3q")
{
  "ok": true,
  "project_id": "bvy3q",
  "count": 10,
  "components": [
    {
      "id": "uf5hn",
      "title": "[Core] Defining the Epistemic Activation Problem: Interim Findings (v0.2.0)",
      "category": "project",
      "public": true,
      "url": "https://osf.io/uf5hn/"
    }
  ],
  "truncated": false
}

Errors are returned as data, never as exceptions:

{ "ok": false, "error": "No such OSF project (it may be private or the id may be wrong)" }

Design

The server is meant to be reachable by anyone, so one rule governs every tool:

Public data in, public data out. No credentials, no local filesystem, no private data, no shell.

Practically that means:

• No auth, deliberately. There is nothing to protect — every byte it returns is already public on osf.io.
• Rate limited per IP, honoring CF-Connecting-IP behind a proxy.
• Responses carry no provenance. No hostnames, no file paths, no command lines. A public server that echoes its own internals is a public server that leaks.
• Upstream responses cached for 120s, so a client in a loop doesn't turn into a denial-of-service against OSF.
• Timeouts on every upstream call, and upstream failures become clean ok: false results rather than tracebacks.

Related

paperclip searches papers across Arxiv, OSF and OpenAlex. This server does something different: it inspects an OSF project — its metadata, abstract, and component tree. If you want to find papers, use paperclip. If you have a project id and want to know what's in it, use this.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.