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General Configuration for AI Verde Data Store MCP Server

This guide provides the necessary configuration details for using the AI Verde Data Store MCP Server.

Streamable-HTTP

The AI Verde Data Store MCP Server supports the new Streamable-HTTP protocol. This supports OAuth 2.0 authentication, which allows you to log in interactively with your CyVerse user account while adding the AI Verde Data Store MCP Server to your MCP Client.

You can access your private data at /iplant/home/<your_username>/ and public community-shared data at /iplant/home/shared/.

Server-Sent Events (HTTP/SSE)

The AI Verde Data Store MCP Server still supports HTTP/SSE, even though the protocol is deprecated. This support is maintained to ensure compatibility with many older AI Agents that can only communicate using HTTP/SSE.

You will need to set your HTTP Authorization header to login. Please check below for how to set the header.

You can access your private data at /iplant/home/<your_username>/ and public community-shared data at /iplant/home/shared/.

If no user credentials are passed through the HTTP Authorization header, you will only be able to access public, community-shared data.

HTTP Basic Auth

HTTP Basic Auth is a traditional but less secure way to authenticate. In this method, your CyVerse user account credentials must be passed via the HTTP Authorization header.

To fill the Authorization header, use the following format: 

Basic <your_base64_encoded_credentials>.

You first need to generate the Base64-encoded credential string. Use your CyVerse username (e.g., foo) and password (e.g., mypassword), separated by a colon (:), with the following terminal command: 

echo -n "foo:mypassword" | base64

This will generate a Base64-encoded string. Prepend this encoded text with the string Basic (including the space) in the Authorization header while you configure your MCP Client.

Anonymous Access

If you want to access only public community-shared data, you can use the public server.

The MCP server will not require any login and grants access to /iplant/home/shared.