openfda
reference corpus · status live · domain HEALTH (Health and clinical reference) · lane A · refresh pinned · tags US · DRUG-SAFETY · ADVERSE-EVENTS · RECALLS · NDC · MEDICAL-DEVICES
What an agent uses it for
An agent working on drug- and device-safety questions queries this for FDA adverse-event (FAERS), recall/enforcement, NDC, and device data field schemas and harmonization tables.
curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xerj-org/xerj/corpus-hub/tools/xerj-code/hub/openfda.jsonxerj corpus add --from ./openfda.jsonxerj corpus index openfda then xerj code openfda "your question"Needs the xerj CLI and a local node running; the copy prompt covers both, checks each step, and shows how to stop only the node you started. No shell: the MCP tool xerj_code_search with corpus: "openfda", once the corpus is indexed on the node.
Sources and pins
| source | pin | licence | size | review note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| openfda | fdbe54327901 | CC0-1.0 | 156.7 MB / 306 files | Decoded COPYING.txt via authenticated GitHub API = CC0 1.0 Universal legal code (SPDX CC0-1.0); US-gov public domain; repo live, not archived (~86MB ETL + data dictionaries + harmonization tables). Bulk JSON at download.open.fda.gov is also public domain, multi-GB. |
156.7 MB across 306 files. Added 2026-10-13.
Rights
CC0-1.0. Redistribution permitted with attribution per the licence review. The review block records a human opening each licence file at the pin. Detector output is a hint, never the verdict.
Retrieval spot-check (G7)
Not yet spot-checked. Queries are pre-registered in the registry before grading.