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CLAUDE.md

nppes-mcp-server CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from rradhakr-git/nppes-mcp-server. It costs 3,763 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of project instructions for AI coding assistants working on an NPPES MCP Server. NPPES is the US registry of National Provider Identifiers, which identify healthcare providers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or maintaining the FastAPI server that searches providers, retrieves or validates NPIs, resolves healthcare taxonomies, and handles semantic search.
Why use it?
It explains the server’s structure, setup, endpoint, and available provider-search functions so an agent can work in the repository with the right context. It also describes its natural-language search and taxonomy lookup components.

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NPPES MCP Server — CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, etc.) working on this repository.


Project Overview

NPPES MCP Server is a FastAPI-based Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes tools for querying the US National Provider Identifier (NPI) Registry (NPPES). It supports natural-language provider search via a RAG pipeline over NUCC taxonomy codes.

  • MCP endpoint: POST /mcp (JSON-RPC 2.0)
  • Protocol version: 2024-11-05
  • Server version: 1.0.0
  • License: Apache 2.0

Repository Structure

nppes-mcp-server/
├── app/
│   ├── main.py                  # FastAPI app, MCP endpoint, tool registry
│   ├── tools/                   # One file per MCP tool
│   │   ├── search_providers.py
│   │   ├── get_provider_by_npi.py
│   │   ├── validate_npi.py
│   │   ├── get_npi_for_provider.py
│   │   ├── resolve_taxonomy.py
│   │   └── semantic_search.py
│   ├── rag/
│   │   ├── index.py             # TaxonomyIndex (FAISS vector store)
│   │   └── embedder.py          # Embedder (paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2)
│   └── nppes_client.py          # Async NPPES API HTTP client (httpx)
├── models/
│   └── paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2/ # Bundled sentence-transformer model
├── tests/
│   ├── unit/                    # Fast unit tests (~63 tests)
│   ├── integration/             # Integration tests (~14 tests)
│   ├── contract/                # Schema/contract validation (schemathesis)
│   └── e2e/                     # Live server E2E tests (requires MCP_SERVER_URL)
├── scripts/                     # Utility scripts
├── .env.example                 # Environment variable template
├── Dockerfile                   # Production Docker image
├── render.yaml                  # Render.com deployment config
├── requirements.txt             # Production dependencies
├── requirements-dev.txt         # Dev/test dependencies
├── TOOLS.md                     # Detailed tool documentation
└── README.md                    # User-facing documentation

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