ClinicalTrials.gov Data API v2 (candidate MCP surface)
A CANDIDATE tool list derived from the ClinicalTrials.gov Data API v2 OpenAPI operations. The National Library of Medicine does not publish an MCP server for ClinicalTrials.gov — no hosted endpoint, no NLM-owned package, and no reference to MCP anywhere on clinicaltrials.gov/data-api. Nothing here is an endpoint an agent can call today.
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Descriptor
Candidate descriptor · transport
Tools
search_studies— Search clinical study records by term, condition, location, intervention, title, status or geography.get_study— Retrieve a single study record by its NCT identifier.get_study_field_metadata— List every study data field, its type and its position in the study data structure.list_search_areas— List the named search areas that query.* parameters accept.list_enums— List the controlled-vocabulary enumerations used across study fields.get_study_sizes— Distribution of study record sizes in the registry.get_field_values— Value distribution statistics for named study fields.get_field_sizes— Size statistics for named study fields.get_version— Report the API version and the timestamp of the last data refresh.
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