feat(medcat-service): Run MCP server for medcat using gradio

[alhendrickson]

What does this do?

This enables medcat-service to be used as a MCP Server. Gradio is magically able to serve up the method used by the demo page

This is it running in cursor answering chat messages. Can see in the logs it calling medcat-service:

What was changed?

• The pydoc is the way it reads the description and knows when to use it.
• Gradio[mcp] dependency, and fixing some pydantic version conflict.
• Setting a flag to True

How to test it?

Cursor MCP was setup using the following config, which is printed on the gradio /demo page

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gradio": {
      "url": "http://localhost:8000/demo/gradio_api/mcp/sse"
    }
  }
}

Why do it?

Because gradio promised it was literally a dependency and a boolean flag, it did deliver on that.

We could definitely make this off by default, though I don't think it really uses any resources unless the API is called.

[mart-r]

Looks great to me!