MCP server

Esa Gaia

io.github.pipeworx-io/esa-gaia

Checked 26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC · Connected to it and listed its tools

ESA Gaia MCP — the Gaia star catalogue, queried over the ESA TAP service.

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At a glance

Type

MCP server

Publisher

pipeworx.io (verified by the MCP Registry)

Status

Working at last check

Tools

45

Token cost

About 27,368 tokens per request

Sets up in

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Grok

Last checked

26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC

Connect it to your agent

Add to CursorAdd to VS CodeVS Code Insiders

Opens the app, which shows the server and asks you to confirm. For other apps, copy the setup below.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http esa-gaia https://gateway.pipeworx.io/esa-gaia/mcp

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL.

Codex (config.toml)

[mcp_servers.esa-gaia]
url = "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/esa-gaia/mcp"

Gemini CLI

{"mcpServers":{"esa-gaia":{"httpUrl":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/esa-gaia/mcp"}}}

Cursor

{"mcpServers":{"esa-gaia":{"url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/esa-gaia/mcp"}}}

VS Code

{"servers":{"esa-gaia":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/esa-gaia/mcp"}}}

Antigravity

agy mcp add esa-gaia https://gateway.pipeworx.io/esa-gaia/mcp

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: turn on Developer mode, then Create a connector and paste the URL. Which plans can do this varies.

OpenAI API (Responses tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"esa-gaia","server_url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/esa-gaia/mcp","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"esa-gaia","server_url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/esa-gaia/mcp"}

Tools

• gaia_adql_query ~353 tokens
  Run a read-only ADQL (SQL-like) query against the ESA Gaia archive — the full DR3 catalogue plus its cross-match and variability tables — for questions a cone search cannot express: colour-magnitude cuts, proper-motion selections, cluster membership, cross-matches to 2MASS/SDSS/Hipparcos. Only SELEC
• gaia_cone_search ~486 tokens
  "What stars are within 6 arcminutes of this position?" / "find the stars in the Pleiades core" — search ESA Gaia DR3, the 1.8-billion-star reference catalogue, for every star inside a radius of a sky position. AUTHORITATIVE for star positions, distances and motions: returns Gaia source_id, RA/Dec, p
• gaia_source_by_id ~226 tokens
  Look up one star in ESA Gaia DR3 by its source_id and return its full astrometric and photometric record: position, parallax with its uncertainty, derived distance in parsecs and light years, proper motion, radial velocity, all three Gaia magnitudes and colour, effective temperature, surface gravity

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