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Agentic Research MCP Server

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Agentic Research runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 99 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 21 Apr 2026.

Local research agent that verifies its own answers. Runs on Gemma 3 4B + Ollama, $0/query.

Installs per day peak 34 · avg 13 · +11% w/w
a month agotoday
99
Installs / week
pypi · agentic-research-engine
2
Stars
1 open issue
21 Apr 2026
Last commit
from GitHub
MIT
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 2 d ago · rules 995398eba69f

Capabilities

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.

            subprocess.run(cmd, check=True, capture_output=True)
                    requests.post(f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{telegram_token}/sendMessage",
    "!pip install -q langgraph openai rank_bm25 trafilatura pypdf textual rich fastapi uvicorn jinja2 python-multipart sse-starlette mcp pyyaml pytest\n",

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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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 agentic-research -- uvx agentic-research-engine
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agentic-research": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "agentic-research-engine"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.agentic-research]
command = "uvx"
args = ["agentic-research-engine"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agentic-research": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "agentic-research-engine"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "agentic-research": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "agentic-research-engine"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: OPENAI_BASE_URL (Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Default: OpenAI cloud. Use http://localhost:11434/v1 for Ollama), OPENAI_API_KEY (API key for the endpoint above. Use 'ollama' as a sentinel value when running locally against Ollama), MODEL_SYNTHESIZER (Model identifier used for the synthesize node. Defaults to 'gpt-5-mini'; set to 'gemma3:4b' for Mac-local Ollama), MODEL_PLANNER (Model for the plan / classify / critic / compress / verify nodes. Defaults to 'gpt-5-nano'), EMBED_MODEL (Embedding model identifier (for retrieval + memory). Default 'text-embedding-3-small'; use 'nomic-embed-text' on Ollama), SEARXNG_URL (Base URL of the SearXNG meta-search instance. Default http://localhost:8888), LOCAL_CORPUS_PATH (Path to an index directory built via scripts/index_corpus.py. When set, local corpus hits augment web search), ENABLE_RERANK (Set to '1' to enable the BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3 cross-encoder rerank stage. First run downloads ~560MB), ENABLE_FETCH (Set to '0' to skip the trafilatura full-page fetch stage. Default '1').

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Agentic Research — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Agentic Research?
Agentic Research 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 agentic-research-engine was installed 99 times last week.
How do I connect Agentic Research?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls agentic-research-engine straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Agentic Research?
The pypi package agentic-research-engine was installed 99 times in the last week. Week over week that is +11%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Agentic Research open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python, 2 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.