MCP Retrieval MCP Server

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MCP Retrieval runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 10 Oct 2026.

Local Go MCP server: DuckDuckGo/Bing web + image search, readability scraping to Markdown.

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10 Oct 2026

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MIT

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Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check MCP Retrieval 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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MCP Retrieval — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Retrieval?

MCP Retrieval runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone.

Is MCP Retrieval open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Go and 16 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.