ToolUniverse

Marginal fit: Claude Code / Gemini CLI plugin wrapping 1000+ science tools, including named genomics/health tools (TCGA, GWAS Catalog, ClinicalTrials.gov) within a much broader catalogue

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Overview

ToolUniverse (Zitnik Lab, Harvard Medical School; arXiv:2509.23426) is a large biomedical/scientific tool ecosystem shipped as a Claude Code plugin -- confirmed by direct fetch, its `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` wraps a single `tooluniverse` plugin sourced from `./plugin`, whose own `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` (also fetched directly) is embedded verbatim below -- and separately documented for Gemini CLI via a first-party `mcpServers` configuration recipe wiring the `tooluniverse-smcp-stdio` MCP server into `~/.gemini/settings.json` (https://zitniklab.hms.harvard.edu/bioagent/guide/building_ai_scientists/gemini_cli.html, fetched directly). Its own `plugin.json` names concrete genomics/health-research data sources -- TCGA, GWAS Catalog, NHANES, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubMed, UniProt, PubChem -- a real, nameable relevance fact, not vague health branding. Marginal fit, flagged explicitly: ToolUniverse's actual scope (1000+ tools, 120+ skills) spans biology, chemistry, medicine, and general data science, of which genomics/health-research is a real but partial slice rather than the project's sole focus; this entry does not claim, and does not attempt, to enumerate ToolUniverse's full tool catalogue. Terms check: the repository's root `LICENSE` file (fetched directly) is the Apache License, Version 2.0, matching the `license` field in both `plugin.json` and the README. No slug collision against any existing entry in this registry.

Details

Licence: Apache-2.0
Version: 1.4.0
Category: biomedical-research-tools
Homepage: https://aiscientist.tools
Repository: https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse
Maintainers: Susheel Varma (@susheel, GA4GH AI Workstream / Sage Bionetworks)
Keywords: genomicsbioinformaticsdrug-discoveryclinical-trialstcgamcp-serverclaude-code-plugin

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Install

claude plugin marketplace add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse
claude plugin install tooluniverse@tooluniverse

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tooluniverse": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "/path/to/your/gemini_running_env",
        "run",
        "tooluniverse-smcp-stdio"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Provenance

Created: 2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z
Last verified: 2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z