inc.arca/life-sciences
Arca Life Sciences
Is the Arca Life Sciences MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-11-14.
Free, no-key search of PubMed, FDA drug and device records and ClinicalTrials.gov, with citations.
alive probed 2026-11-15 · unchanged since 2026-11-14 · HTTP 200
- Endpoint
- https://app.arca.inc/api/public/mcp (streamable-http)
- Host
- app.arca.inc
- Protocol
- 2025-11-25
- Reports itself as
- arca-life-sciences 0.1.0
- Capabilities
- tools
- Instructions
- 1 175 characters
- Of a 1M window
- 0.5 % of a 1M context window
- Count
- 4.6k tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-11-14. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 4.6k. The o200k_base estimate is 2.6k. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
- Website
- https://www.arca.inc/research
- Registry
- active, updated 2026-11-06 · registry entry
- Changes
- 6 recorded, reachable in 6 of them. A row is added when the result, the tool count or the cost changes.
Most expensive tools
The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.74×.
| Tool | ≈ Claude tokens | o200k estimate | Share of this server |
|---|---|---|---|
| search_medical | 3 438 | 1 975 | 75 % |
| search_papers | 653 | 375 | 14 % |
| fetch_source_record | 395 | 227 | 9 % |
| list_datasets | 110 | 63 | 2 % |
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History
We add a row when the result changes. A server with no change keeps its last row.
| Probed | Result | Init | Tools | Claude | o200k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-14 10:48 | alive | 1.3 s | 4 | 4.6k | 2.6k |
| 2026-11-13 11:29 | alive | 664 ms | 4 | 4.6k | 2.6k |
| 2026-11-12 11:40 | alive | 908 ms | 4 | 4.5k | 2.6k |
| 2026-11-11 11:22 | alive | 884 ms | 4 | 4.1k | 2.4k |
| 2026-11-10 11:37 | alive | 853 ms | 4 | 4.0k | 2.3k |
| 2026-11-06 11:19 | alive | 1.8 s | 4 | 3.7k | 2.2k |
Badge for the README
The result of the latest probe, the tool count and the token cost. The feed has an entry for every probe that changed them.
A mail when this server changes
Stops answering, comes back, tool set or cost changes. One confirmation mail first, a stop link in every mail.
For the publisher
- The server answers initialize and tools/list. Nothing to fix.
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