# MESA — Multidisciplinary Environment for Scientific Advancement

> MESA is an open-source, agentic AI platform that connects scientific data through curated, indexed metadata — a data lakehouse, a federated data mesh, and AI agents that speak both. NSF IDSS Category II project at the University of New Mexico.

A machine-readable index of this origin is also published as an Open
Knowledge Format (OKF v0.2) bundle at
https://idss-mesa.github.io/okf/index.md — crawling policy in
https://idss-mesa.github.io/robots.txt (fully permissive).

## Site

- [Home](https://idss-mesa.github.io/): what MESA is, architecture, and project overview
- [Hiring](https://idss-mesa.github.io/hiring.html): open positions with MESA and CARC at the University of New Mexico

## Documentation

- [MESA MCP stack docs](https://idss-mesa.github.io/docs/): one-line install of the CyVerse MESA MCP stack for Claude Code, Codex CLI, Antigravity, and OpenCode
- [Docs page index](https://idss-mesa.github.io/docs/llms.txt): llms.txt for the documentation sub-site, with raw markdown for every page
- [Docs full content](https://idss-mesa.github.io/docs/llms-full.txt): the entire documentation as one markdown file

## Software

- [mesa-mcp](https://github.com/idss-mesa/mesa-mcp): MCP server bridging the CyVerse Data Store (iRODS) with OBO/OLS ontology AVU tools, DataCite metadata, and DuckLake metadata history
- [mesa-ducklake](https://github.com/idss-mesa/mesa-ducklake): AVU metadata-history library (DuckLake: Postgres/DuckDB catalog plus Parquet in iRODS)
- [irods-mcp-server](https://github.com/idss-mesa/irods-mcp-server): reference MCP server for the CyVerse Data Store (iRODS), in Go
- [formation-mcp](https://github.com/idss-mesa/formation-mcp): MCP server for the CyVerse Discovery Environment (Formation API), in Go
- [cli](https://github.com/idss-mesa/cli): CyVerse Cloud Shell CLI with MESA tools
- [mesa-portal](https://github.com/idss-mesa/mesa-portal): portal based on the CyVerse Terrain API
- [mesa-forge](https://github.com/idss-mesa/mesa-forge): metadata extraction tool generation and management library