# Vetrics Medicines

> Machine-readable, normalised index of veterinary medicines authorised for use in Great Britain, with direct VMD provenance.

- Base URL: https://api.medicines.vetrics.co
- Corpus: Great Britain VMD Product Information Database (Open Government Licence v3.0)
- Access: Free and rate-limited at launch. Machine payment (MPP/x402) may be activated later without schema changes.
- Privacy: https://api.medicines.vetrics.co/privacy.txt
- MCP registry manifest: https://github.com/allster-co/medicines-api/blob/main/server.json
- Not the official VMD database. Reference information only; prescribing remains the clinician's responsibility.

## Primary endpoints

- [List medicines](https://api.medicines.vetrics.co/api/v1/medicines): Cursor-paginated full catalogue
- [Search](https://api.medicines.vetrics.co/api/v1/medicines/search): Name / VM number / substance search
- [Medicine detail](https://api.medicines.vetrics.co/api/v1/medicines/{id}): Full structured record + provenance
- [Documents](https://api.medicines.vetrics.co/api/v1/medicines/{id}/documents): SPC and related document metadata
- [Meta](https://api.medicines.vetrics.co/api/v1/meta): Sync watermarks, attribution, dataVersion
- [OpenAPI](https://api.medicines.vetrics.co/openapi.json): Machine-readable API schema
- [Full guide](https://api.medicines.vetrics.co/llms-full.txt): Field dictionary and citation rules

## MCP

- Main Streamable HTTP MCP: https://api.medicines.vetrics.co/mcp
  Tools: list_medicines, search_medicines, get_medicine, get_medicine_documents, get_sync_status
- Deep research MCP: https://api.medicines.vetrics.co/mcp/research
  Tools: search, fetch

## Optional client header

X-Vetrics-Client: product-name/version