Climate Data Store (CDS) MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that provides the LLM an interface to retrieve CDS catalogue data and job statuses. The underlying API is datapi - docs found here.

Local serverstdio

What is the Climate Data Store (CDS) MCP Server?

Climate Data Store (CDS) MCP Server is an MCP project maintained in the albertdow/mcp-datapi repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that provides the LLM an interface to retrieve CDS catalogue data and job statuses. The underlying API is…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.

Local setup

The project provides a local client configuration using uv. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.

Configuration values

The example declares DATAPI_URL, DATAPI_KEY. Secret-looking values have been replaced with placeholders. Required and optional labels are shown only when the documentation states them.

Source

Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.

How to install the Climate Data Store (CDS) MCP Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "DatapiServer": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "mcp-datapi",
        "run",
        "mcp_datapi/datapi_server.py"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATAPI_URL": "<DATAPI_URL>",
        "DATAPI_KEY": "YOUR_DATAPI_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
DATAPI_URLDeclared in the maintainer’s client configuration.Check documentation
DATAPI_KEYDeclared in the maintainer’s client configuration.Check documentation