PathTalk is also a Model Context Protocol server. Connect it to Claude (Desktop, claude.ai, or any MCP-aware client) to give the assistant first-class access to the WHO Classification of Tumours, PathologyOutlines, PubMed, the full-text literature corpus and your own books — the same retrieval that powers the chat page, callable as tools.
The server uses the Streamable HTTP transport. Log in to get your personal URL, which also gives the connector access to your books.
https://api.pathtalk.io/mcpPoint your MCP client at this URL for the public corpora.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_who | WHO Classification of Tumours chapters — canonical diagnostic criteria, entity definitions, grading. |
| search_pathology_outlines | PathologyOutlines topic pages — quick-reference clinical features, microscopy, IHC, differentials. |
| search_path_pubmed | PubMed abstracts — primary evidence, recent studies, prognostic data. |
| search_path_literature | Full-text literature corpus — passage-level evidence from the paper body, not just the abstract. |
| search_my_books | Your personal library — passages from the books you added, with a reader link per page. Needs your personal URL. |
| search_pathology_figures | Find figure images (H&E, IHC, gross, radiology) by legend text — published literature plus your books; returns image URLs + sources. |
| clean_pathology_report | Rewrite a dictated/draft pathology report; preserves diagnoses, fixes speech-to-text errors. |
Open Settings → Developer → Edit config and add PathTalk under mcpServers:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pathtalk": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.pathtalk.io/mcp"
}
}
}Restart Claude Desktop after saving. The tools will appear in the ↺ tool list.
In claude.ai go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, give it a name (e.g. PathTalk), paste the URL above, and save. The tools will be available in any conversation where the connector is enabled.
Same usage caveats as the rest of PathTalk: this is a retrieval aid for pathologists, not a clinical decision-support system. Always verify against the cited source.