Osdu MCP Server

Osdu MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Osdu directly instead of describing what you should do. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides AI assistants with access to OSDU platform capabilities.

What the assistant can call

Once Osdu is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:

• Prompts — The Prompts tool exposed by this server
• Tools — The Tools tool exposed by this server
• Foundation — The Foundation tool exposed by this server

Setting it up

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client.

Configuration and credentials

You will need 8 environment variables: OSDU_MCP_SERVER_URL, OSDU_MCP_SERVER_DATA_PARTITION, AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_TENANT_ID, OSDU_MCP_SERVER_DOMAIN, OSDU_MCP_ENABLE_WRITE_MODE, OSDU_MCP_ENABLE_DELETE_MODE, AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.

Choosing this one

Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Osdu's toolset — Prompts, Tools, Foundation — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by danielscholl-osdu; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Before you rely on it

• It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
• Missing credentials fail quietly in some clients — if no tools show up, check the environment block first.
• MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the osdu mcp server does with a few real requests.