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 23 Aug 2026.

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

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Installs / week

not published

Stars

1 open issues

23 Aug 2026

Last commit

from GitHub

MIT

License

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, 12 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.