Argus Retrieval MCP Server

What the code does

We read the source, 18 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

                result = subprocess.run(

    with patch.dict(os.environ, auth_environment):

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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 mcp add argus -- uvx argus-search

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "argus": {
      "args": [
        "argus-search"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.argus]
command = "uvx"
args = ["argus-search"]

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "argus": {
      "args": [
        "argus-search"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "argus": {
      "args": [
        "argus-search"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: ARGUS_WOLFRAM_API_KEY (WolframAlpha App ID (2,000 free computed-answer queries/month)), ARGUS_BRAVE_API_KEY (Brave Search API key (2,000 free queries/month)), ARGUS_TAVILY_API_KEY (Tavily API key (1,000 free queries/month)), ARGUS_EXA_API_KEY (Exa API key (1,000 free queries/month)), ARGUS_SERPER_API_KEY (Serper API key (2,500 one-time free queries)), ARGUS_LINKUP_API_KEY (Linkup API key (1,000 free queries/month)), ARGUS_SEARXNG_BASE_URL (SearXNG instance URL (self-hosted, aggregates 70+ engines)), ARGUS_DATA_ROOT (Optional override for the writable Argus runtime corpus root). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.