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DimensionAirtable MCP ServerFull Airtable CRUD, schema, and automation access for AI applications over MCPChEMBL MCP ServerUnofficial MCP server providing advanced access to the ChEMBL chemical database
FMRS61 / 100 · C75 / 100 · B
Reliability8 / 2012 / 20
Security and permissions11 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance13 / 2014 / 20
Documentation16 / 2018 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2015 / 20
Best for
  • Teams already using Airtable for projects, tasks, or customer data who want AI assistants to operate on it directly
  • Developers integrating Airtable automation into Claude, Codex, Cursor, or other MCP clients
  • Use cases needing governance and PII-masking controls over AI access to base data
  • Drug discovery and computational chemistry researchers
  • Bioinformatics teams needing ChEMBL data through AI assistants
  • Developers comfortable with Node.js or Docker
Not for
  • Users who don't use Airtable
  • Organizations requiring guaranteed official vendor support (this is a third-party, community-maintained project, not an Airtable product)
  • Environments that can't accept running a remote npm package fetched fresh via npx on each launch
  • Production settings requiring official ChEMBL support (this is unofficial)
  • Users without a Node.js or Docker environment
  • General database tasks unrelated to ChEMBL
Required permissions
  • data.records:read — read records
  • data.records:write — create, update, delete records
  • data.recordComments:read — read record comments
  • data.recordComments:write — create, update, delete comments
  • schema.bases:read — view table schemas
  • schema.bases:write — create and modify tables and fields
  • user.email:read — read user identity (whoami)
  • webhook:manage — manage webhooks (optional)
  • Outbound network access to https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/api/data
  • Read-only access to public API data; no authentication credentials required
Risks and side effects
  • The server can write, modify, and delete Airtable data and schema; misuse or prompt injection could cause data loss, though create/update require a dryRun diff review
  • The Personal Access Token is stored in plaintext in client config environment variables, so config file access must be protected
  • This is a third-party project (not maintained by Airtable) fetched fresh from npm via npx on each run, introducing a supply-chain trust dependency on the maintainer
  • Destructive operations like delete_table, delete_field, and batch_delete_records exist; some require confirmation but scopes should still be reviewed carefully before granting
  • Unofficial project with license marked NOASSERTION (README claims MIT); verify licensing yourself
  • Data accuracy depends on the ChEMBL REST API and the server's parsing may contain defects
  • 30-second request timeouts may constrain large batch queries
  • README inconsistency on tool count (22 vs 27) raises documentation reliability concerns
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, VS CodeClaude Desktop
Tools4227