You.com Web Access & AI MCP Server

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You.com Web Access & AI is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. 1 597 installs a week from npm. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 28 Oct 2026.

Web search, AI agent, and content extraction via You.com APIs

Installs per day peak 5 114 · avg 329 · +487% w/w

a month agotoday

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 98%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

145 ms

Response time

average over 24h

1 597

Installs / week

npm and PyPI

What changed 10

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 14 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

18 Aug 2 tools appeared you-answer, you-answers

18 Aug a tool disappeared you-answers

18 Aug a tool changed the parameters it asks for you-search

18 Aug a tool changed version

14 Aug 3 tool descriptions were rewritten you-contents, you-research, you-search

14 Aug a tool changed the parameters it asks for you-search

14 Aug a tool changed version

What the code does

We read the source, 5 d ago · tools taken from the live server · 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.

Package points at a different repository youdotcom-oss/mcp

пакет @youdotcom-oss/mcp ссылается на youdotcom-oss/dx-toolkit

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.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://api.you.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://api.you.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://api.you.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://api.you.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.you.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

you

you-answer

Fast live-web answer generation returning one synthesized answer with verified inline citations, citation excerpts, and supporting web results. Use when the caller wants a single sourced answer; use research for deeper multi-step investigation, effort control, structured output, or background tasks. Supports freshness, country, language, and domain filters.

you-balance

Get the remaining credit balance for the billing entity associated with your You.com API key. Balance is in cents (divide by 100 for USD).

you-contents

Extract full content from specific URLs in markdown, HTML, or structured metadata. Use when you already have URLs and need to read them before relying on exact details.

you-discover

Discover AI agents, MCP servers, A2A agents, and skills via ARD Agent Finder services. Search-only — never installs or connects. Returns ranked results with relevance scores.

you-research

One-shot cited synthesis — research a topic and return a concise answer with inline citations and source list. Use when a synthesized, sourced answer is needed rather than raw search results. Configurable effort levels (lite, standard, deep, exhaustive, frontier).

you-search

Current web and news search returning snippets, source URLs, and metadata. Default for finding current information; supports domain, country, language, and freshness filters, and extraction (highlights or full page content). For multi-part questions, issue a separate focused query per sub-question — one facet each, not the whole question.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

you-answers

removed 18 Aug 2026

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.you.com/mcp	streamable-http	sign-in	150 ms	5 min ago

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You.com Web Access & AI — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can You.com Web Access & AI do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: you-answer, you-balance, you-contents, you-discover, you-research, you-search. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is You.com Web Access & AI working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 145 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Did You.com Web Access & AI ever remove tools?

Yes. you-answers is no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.

How do I connect You.com Web Access & AI?

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 is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.

How do you sign in to You.com Web Access & AI?

No API key is involved. You.com Web Access & AI answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.

How fast is You.com Web Access & AI?

It answers our handshake in 145 ms on average, which is faster than 84% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

How many people use You.com Web Access & AI?

The npm package @youdotcom-oss/mcp was installed 1 597 times in the last week. Week over week that is +487%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is You.com Web Access & AI open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 25 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at api.you.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.