About Médicaments en France
Médicaments en France is a read-only MCP server for checking medicine shortages in France, aimed at people and AI clients seeking ANSM and BDPM information. It combines shortage status, availability details, recent changes, and medicine records, while emphasizing that its data is not medical advice.
Key features
- 01Search medicines by name or substance
- 02Check shortage status and return estimates
- 03Browse current shortages with filters
- 04Review recent shortage changes
- 05Check MITM status and ATC code
- 06View packaging, pricing, and safety data
Use cases
- 01Check whether a medicine is listed as in shortage
- 02Review expected return dates and shortage history
- 03Track recent supply-status changes
- 04Check MITM status or dispensing conditions
MCP support
Exposes read-only medicine search, shortage, change, MITM, and medicine-information tools to MCP clients over Streamable HTTP. Results include sources, update dates, coverage notes, and safety notices.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://medicaments-france.a3e.dev/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http amine7536-medicaments-france https://medicaments-france.a3e.dev/mcp{"mcpServers":{"amine7536-medicaments-france":{"type":"http","url":"https://medicaments-france.a3e.dev/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"amine7536-medicaments-france":{"type":"http","url":"https://medicaments-france.a3e.dev/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"amine7536-medicaments-france":{"type":"http","url":"https://medicaments-france.a3e.dev/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"amine7536-medicaments-france":{"serverUrl":"https://medicaments-france.a3e.dev/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project READMEMédicaments en France
MCP server: medicine shortages in France (ANSM + BDPM). Ruptures et tensions d'approvisionnement des médicaments, pour Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor.
Information uniquement, pas un avis médical. Ce service ne remplace pas votre médecin ou votre pharmacien : demandez-leur toujours conseil avant de modifier, remplacer ou arrêter un traitement.
Information only, not medical advice. This service does not replace your doctor or pharmacist: always ask them before changing, replacing or stopping a treatment.
Endpoint
https://medicaments-france.a3e.dev/mcp
Streamable HTTP, read-only, no authentication. Status and data dates: https://medicaments-france.a3e.dev/health.
Connect
-
Claude: add a custom connector with the URL
https://medicaments-france.a3e.dev/mcp. -
Cursor: add it to
mcp.json:{ "mcpServers": { "medicaments-france": { "url": "https://medicaments-france.a3e.dev/mcp" } } } -
Any MCP client supporting streamable HTTP: use the endpoint URL above.
Tools
| Tool | Purpose | Main inputs |
|---|---|---|
search_medicine | Find a medicine and see if it is in shortage. | query (brand or active substance), only_in_shortage, limit |
get_availability | Shortage status, expected return and history of one medicine. | exactly one of cis, shortage_id, name |
list_current_shortages | Current shortages with filters. | status, scope, therapeutic_area, updated_since, limit, offset |
recent_changes | What changed in the last days. | days, change_types, limit |
is_major_therapeutic_interest | MITM status of a medicine, with its ATC code. | exactly one of cis, name |
get_medicine_info | Boxes of a medicine (CIP13 code, marketing status, price, reimbursement rate), its prescription and dispensing conditions, and current ANSM safety information. | exactly one of cis, cip13, name |
Every result carries the sources, their update dates, the coverage note, the disclaimer and a safety notice.
Example questions
- « L'Aspirine est-elle en rupture ? » — Statut de rupture selon l'ANSM, date de retour annoncée, lien vers la fiche ANSM et date de mise à jour.
- « Quels sont les médicaments en tension pour la cardiologie ? » — Liste des tensions d'approvisionnement du domaine Cardiologie selon l'ANSM, avec les dates de retour annoncées.
- « Qu'est-ce qui a changé cette semaine ? » — Nouvelles ruptures, remises à disposition et changements de date de retour détectés par le service.
- « L'amoxicilline est-elle un MITM ? » — Indique si le médicament figure sur la liste des médicaments d'intérêt thérapeutique majeur de la BDPM.
- « Mon médicament n'est pas listé, il est donc disponible ? » — Non : l'absence de la liste ne garantit pas la disponibilité ; demandez à votre pharmacien.
- « Par quoi remplacer le Brevibloc ? » — Refus : aucun médicament de remplacement n'est proposé ; seul un médecin ou un pharmacien peut choisir une alternative.
Coverage and limits
- ANSM lists mainly shortages of medicines of major therapeutic interest declared by manufacturers. Shortages already compensated by alternatives are not published. Not listed does not mean available.
- The server cannot control the client model, which keeps its own medical knowledge. It is not a substitute for a pharmacist or doctor.
- Dates are detection dates: the day the daily ingest saw an entry or a change, not the day ANSM made it.
- Scope (city, hospital) and expected return are parsed from ANSM free text. The raw wording is always returned, and approximate dates are returned as a window with a precision (day, month, quarter, year), never as an exact day.
- Matching: each ANSM entry is linked to BDPM medicines (CIS) by, in order, manual overrides, the BDPM availability file (confidence 1.0), exact normalized names (0.95), then fuzzy name similarity on the same brand. An entry with a best match of confidence ≥ 0.8 counts as matched. Match rate: 94.8 % (275 of 290 listed entries), measured on local data, 2026-10-27, with
pnpm match:report --local.
Data sources and licence
- ANSM, list of medicine shortages: https://ansm.sante.fr/disponibilites-des-produits-de-sante/medicaments. Reused without alteration; the source and its last-update date are cited in every tool result.
- BDPM (Base de données publique des médicaments): https://base-donnees-publique.medicaments.gouv.fr, under the Licence Ouverte. Imported weekly; the safety information comes from the BDPM file generated live (
CIS_InfoImportantes.txt), the other files from the monthly release. Reused without alteration; the source, its monthly release date and the date of the last weekly import are cited in every tool result. - Ce service n'est ni approuvé ni soutenu par l'ANSM, la HAS ou l'UNCAM.
Privacy
- No accounts, cookies or emails.
- Cloudflare Analytics Engine stores only: tool name, success/error, latency, the BDPM CIS when present, and the date.
- No IP, query text or user agent.
- Cloudflare request logs keep their default retention and are not exported.
Development
Requires Node 24 and pnpm.
pnpm install
pnpm dev # wrangler dev on http://localhost:8787
pnpm test
The D1 database is created in the EU jurisdiction:
npx wrangler d1 create ruptures --jurisdiction=eu
Local data:
npx wrangler d1 migrations apply ruptures --local
pnpm bdpm:import # downloads the BDPM files and writes .bdpm/bdpm.sql
pnpm bdpm:apply:local
echo 'ADMIN_TOKEN=<token>' > .dev.vars
pnpm dev
curl -X POST -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' http://localhost:8787/admin/ingest
pnpm match:report --local # match rate and unmatched entries (remote D1 without --local)
Substitution check: asks Claude Code the substitution questions 3 times each (--runs N) against an MCP URL and fails when an answer names another medicine or gives no pharmacist or doctor referral. Needs an authenticated Claude Code CLI (claude).
pnpm golden -- --url http://localhost:8787/mcp
Releases
Versions come from the Conventional Commits on main: release-please keeps a release PR open that bumps the version in package.json, server.json and src/mcp/server.ts and updates CHANGELOG.md. Merging that PR tags vX.Y.Z, creates the GitHub release and publishes server.json to the MCP registry. The deploy follows every push to main.
Licence
MIT.
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