[MCP Example] ClinicalTrials.gov Remote MCP for Biomedical Data Exploration

[gnetsanet]

What feature would you like to see?

Add a new MCP guide example that demonstrates how to use a remote MCP server via HTTP for real-world biomedical data exploration.

Would you like to contribute?

• [x] Yes, I'd like to help implement this.
• [ ] No, I just want to request it.

Additional Context

Based on

• #8957

[gnetsanet]

Hi @chenmoneygithub

I would like to propose a real-world MCP example called “ClinicalTrials MCP”, which connects DSPy to the clinicaltrials.gov api via a remote FastAPI based MCP server.

The idea is to show how DSPy agents can use MCP tools over HTTP to:

• Search and summarize recruiting clinical trials (e.g., “ALS” in the U.S.)
• Retrieve detailed study metadata
• Export results, say csv, for downstream analysis

The notebook will demonstrate:

• How to register and call remote MCP tools from a DSPy agent
• End-to-end reasoning and tool-use tracing
• (Optional) observability with Phoenix or LangSmith

Thoughts?

[chenmoneygithub]

@gnetsanet Thanks for the feature request, and sorry about the late reply!

Yes, that's a great idea, and I do like it. Whenever you are ready, please share a colab notebook with us for review, thank you!