This is a MCP server for PatentSafe. It is used to connect to PatentSafe and retrieve documents.

For Claude, you can install the MCP server having a ~/Users/simonc~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.jsonfile which looks something like this on macOS with Homebrew and uv installed:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "USEFULNAME": {
      "command": "/opt/homebrew/bin/uvx",
      "args": [
        "--from",
        "git+ssh://git@github.com/amphora/patentsafe-mcp.git",
        "patentsafe-mcp",
        "PATENTSAFE_BASE_URL",
        "PATENTSAFE_AUTH_TOKEN"
      ]
    }
  }
}

You'll need to replace:

• USEFULNAME with a useful name for the server (e.g. patentsafe)
• PATENTSAFE_BASE_URL with the base URL of your PatentSafe instance (e.g. https://demo.morescience.com)
• PATENTSAFE_AUTH_TOKEN with your PatentSafe authentication token you can get from your user settings.

We've tested it with Claude, but it should work with any MCP client.

The MCP server does raw Lucene queries against the PatentSafe database, which is not something users often do. If you want to do a Lucene query, you can use the following URL:

https://PATENTSAFE_BASE_URL/ps/read/search.html?pq=1

Our initial testing shows that PatentSafe can easily return more documents than the LLM can process. So there's a --max-chars flag to limit the number of characters returned, default 500k.

This is very much a work in progress. It works for us, and will likely work for you, but it's not production ready and is under active development.

You can raise issues directly with Amphora's support team in the usual way, or contribute to this GitHub project with pull requests, issues, discussion etc.

• Add support for exposing Metadata fields
• Move the MCO server natively into PatentSafe (if that's the way clients evolve)