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, and the full-text literature corpus — the same retrieval that powers the chat page, callable as tools.
The server uses the Streamable HTTP transport. No login is required for now.
https://api.pathtalk.io/mcpPoint your MCP client at this URL. Local dev runs the same server at http://localhost:8000/mcp.
| 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_pathology_figures | Find published figure images (H&E, IHC, gross, radiology) by legend text; returns image URLs + source DOIs. |
| 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.