Intercept MCP Server

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Intercept runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 83 installs a week from npm. Last commit 2 Aug 2026.

Give your AI the ability to read the web. Fetches URLs as clean markdown with multi-tier fallback.

Installs per day peak 64 · avg 18 · -45% w/w

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Installs / week

npm · intercept-mcp

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0 open issues

2 Aug 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

MIT

License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Intercept every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add intercept-mcp -- npx -y intercept-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "intercept-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "intercept-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.intercept-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "intercept-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "intercept-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "intercept-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "intercept-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "intercept-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: BRAVE_API_KEY (Brave Search API key for the search tool (free tier: 2,000 queries/month). Not needed for the fetch tool.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Intercept — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Intercept?

Intercept runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package intercept-mcp was installed 83 times last week.

How do I connect Intercept?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls intercept-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Intercept?

The npm package intercept-mcp was installed 83 times in the last week. Week over week that is -45%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Intercept open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 9 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.