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Agent Search MCP Server

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Agent Search MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 157 installs a week from npm. Last commit 16 Sep 2026.

Free-first Chinese and English web search MCP using zero-key sources and inspectable evidence.

Installs per day peak 453 · avg 87 · -27% w/w
a month agotoday
157
Installs / week
npm · agent-search-mcp
110
Stars
0 open issues
16 Sep 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
Apache-2.0
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

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

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add agent-search-mcp -- npx -y agent-search-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-search-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "agent-search-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.agent-search-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "agent-search-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-search-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "agent-search-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-search-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "agent-search-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: BRAVE_API_KEY (Brave Search API key (optional, enables Brave engine)), TAVILY_API_KEY (Tavily Search API key (optional, enables Tavily engine)), EXA_API_KEY (Exa Search API key (optional, enables Exa engine)), YDC_API_KEY (You.com Search API key (optional, enables You.com engine)), TENCENT_WSA_API_KEY (Tencent Web Search API key (optional, enables Tencent WSA engine)), BOCHA_API_KEY (Bocha Web Search API key (optional, enables Bocha engine)), SERPER_API_KEY (Serper API key (optional, enables Google SERP search)), SEARCH_PROVIDER_MODE (Provider policy: free_first, quality_escalation, paid_first, or free_only), PAID_ENGINE_ORDER (Comma-separated optional-provider preference order). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Agent Search MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Agent Search MCP?
Agent Search MCP 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 agent-search-mcp was installed 157 times last week.
How do I connect Agent Search MCP?
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 agent-search-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Agent Search MCP?
The npm package agent-search-mcp was installed 157 times in the last week. Week over week that is -27%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Agent Search MCP open source?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript and 110 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.