v0.1.0: Auth, Consent, and Globus Compute

Globus MCP Server v0.1.0

First tagged release of the Globus MCP Server, prepared for the Globus World 2026 demo.

⚠️ Beta — APIs, tool signatures, and behavior may change before v1.0.0.

Highlights

• 26 MCP tools across four categories: Identity & Auth, Endpoints/Filesystem, Transfers, and Compute
• Globus Compute integration — agents can submit arbitrary Python functions to remote HPC endpoints
• Consent recovery — structured error handling guides agents through ConsentRequired failures automatically
• Automatic dependency isolation — uv-based virtual environment provisioning on Compute endpoints

What's Included

Phase 1–2: Core Transfer (18 tools)

Federated data transfer via the Globus CLI: endpoint discovery, filesystem operations, async transfers with wait, batch transfers, task management.

Phase 3: Auth & Consent Improvements (1 tool)

• ConsentRequiredError detection with automatic scope parsing from CLI stderr
• session_consent(scopes) tool for browser-based endpoint consent
• All tools return structured consent errors that guide agents through retry
• SERVER_INSTRUCTIONS teaches agents the detect → consent → retry pattern

Phase 4: Globus Compute (7 tools)

• compute_login() — separate OAuth flow for Globus Compute
• compute_endpoint_list() / compute_endpoint_status() — endpoint discovery and health check
• compute_submit() — register Python source code and submit tasks asynchronously
• compute_batch_submit() — multi-task batch variant
• compute_status() / compute_result() — non-blocking status check and result retrieval with optional polling
• Automatic worker_init rendering: when requirements is provided, the server generates a bash script that provisions a cached, MD5-hashed virtual environment via uv on the remote endpoint

Installation

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "globus": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["git+https://github.com/purduercac/globus-mcp@v0.1.0"]
    }
  }
}

Requirements

• Python ≥3.11, <3.14 (Compute SDK constraint)
• Globus CLI installed and accessible on $PATH
• globus login or globus_login() tool for transfer auth
• compute_login() tool for Compute auth (separate OAuth flow)