TerminologyCapabilities resource (FHIR R4)

TerminologyCapabilities is the FHIR R4 resource for a TerminologyCapabilities resource documents a set of capabilities (behaviors) of a FHIR Terminology Server that may be used as a statement of actual server functionality or a statement of required or desired server implementation.

Resource	TerminologyCapabilities
FHIR version	R4 (4.0.1)
Canonical URL	http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/TerminologyCapabilities
Required elements	status (1..1), date (1..1), kind (1..1)

Example

{
  "resourceType": "TerminologyCapabilities",
  "id": "terminologycapabilities-e6fa08a1ceba8ddbaf299d90ef9d30c6",
  "status": "draft",
  "date": "2026-07-01T12:00:00Z",
  "kind": "instance"
}

Generated by the Pidgeon engine: pidgeon generate TerminologyCapabilities --seed 20260722.

Validation context

strict pidgeon validate grades a TerminologyCapabilities instance against the base R4 structure definition: missing required elements raise REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING and cardinality violations raise CARDINALITY_MIN or CARDINALITY_MAX.(REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING)

This answer, in your terminal

pidgeon lookup TerminologyCapabilities

Wire it into your AI agent:

claude mcp add pidgeon -- npx -y @pidgeonhealth/mcp

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