Sifthound MCP Server

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Sifthound runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 4 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 9 Oct 2026.

Self-hosted, Tavily-compatible web search, extract, crawl and map tools for AI agents.

Installs per day peak 630 · avg 29 · -96% w/w

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9 Oct 2026

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MIT

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Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Sifthound 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 sifthound -- uvx sifthound

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sifthound": {
      "args": [
        "sifthound"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.sifthound]
command = "uvx"
args = ["sifthound"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sifthound": {
      "args": [
        "sifthound"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sifthound": {
      "args": [
        "sifthound"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: SEARXNG_URL (URL of a SearXNG instance with JSON output enabled. Needed only for sifthound_search; extract, crawl and map work without it.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Sifthound — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Sifthound?

Sifthound 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 pypi package sifthound was installed 4 times last week.

How do I connect Sifthound?

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 sifthound straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Sifthound?

The pypi package sifthound was installed 4 times in the last week. Week over week that is -96%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Sifthound open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 2 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.