LABSCO SUMMARY

One command, five settings, no build step.

Installation is as short as it gets for a database server — uvx mcp-server-iris and the connection details, with no clone and no compile. The scope of what an agent can do is entirely the scope of the IRIS account and namespace you give it, so that choice is the whole security decision here.

What it is

An MCP server for InterSystems IRIS, the data platform used for interoperability and healthcare integration work. It connects to a running IRIS instance by host, port and namespace with a username and password, and exposes it to an MCP client — the README's screenshot shows it used for IRIS interoperability work from Claude.

What you get

A connection to one IRIS instance, addressed by IRIS_HOSTNAME, IRIS_PORT and IRIS_NAMESPACE, authenticated with IRIS_USERNAME and IRIS_PASSWORD. The namespace is the scope boundary that matters: whatever the account can reach in that namespace is what the client can reach, so pick both deliberately.

Requirements

A running InterSystems IRIS instance and an account on it. Five environment values point the server at it — hostname, port, namespace, username and password — with the README's example using the defaults localhost, 1972 and the USER namespace. Install uv and run it as uvx mcp-server-iris; nothing to build.

Setup effort

One command — uvx mcp-server-iris

See installation options

USE CASES

01

Reaching an IRIS instance from an assistant

Give the server the host, port and namespace and let the client work against it, rather than opening a separate terminal session.

02

Limiting what the assistant can touch

Point it at one namespace with an account scoped to that namespace — that pairing is the boundary.

03

Trying it against a local instance first

Run it against loopback on the default port and namespace before pointing anything at a shared server.

BEFORE YOU INSTALL

What to know first

Requires

uvx on PATH

Where it runs

The documented client runs the server on your machine.

INSTALLATION

Connect your client

Server setup

TERMINAL

uvx mcp-server-iris

MCP Clients

Claude Desktop

CLAUDE DESKTOP · JSON

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "iris": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-iris"
      ],
      "env": {
        "IRIS_HOSTNAME": "localhost",
        "IRIS_PORT": "1972",
        "IRIS_NAMESPACE": "USER",
        "IRIS_USERNAME": "_SYSTEM",
        "IRIS_PASSWORD": "SYS"
      }
    }
  }
}

InterSystems IRIS