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Lookout

Web answers with source-level proof.

Search and fetch citeable excerpts. No API key. Hits name the adapter. Fetches keep a span, warnings, and gaps. Multi-step research is a separate tool.

npm @sylphx/lookout · bin lookout · MCP io.github.SylphxAI/lookout

The problem

A search snippet is a title and a URL. The agent then paraphrases a page it never opened. When the body is missing, a confident summary is worse than a gap.

Related MCP server: wigolo

The difference

Fetch reads the HTTP response. It does not run JavaScript, and it does not write a model summary.

Search, then open the page

npx -y @sylphx/lookout search "Model Context Protocol"
npx -y @sylphx/lookout fetch https://example.com
npx -y @sylphx/lookout extract https://example.com

search queries DuckDuckGo HTML, Wikipedia OpenSearch, the npm registry, and Hacker News Algolia, then ranks the hits. It does not fetch those pages and it does not run web_research.

Install

npx -y @sylphx/lookout

That starts a stdio MCP server. No API key.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lookout": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@sylphx/lookout"] }
  }
}

Tools

There is no profile switch. The tool you name is the work that runs. Cache is on for search and fetch unless you pass useCache: false. A cache hit replays an earlier response from disk. The first search still needs the network.

Reference: tools · defaults

What it will not pretend

• Private, loopback, and link-local addresses are rejected.

• A failed adapter, a non-200 response, a truncated body, or an empty extract is reported. It is not turned into a clean answer.

• web_fetch does not honor robots.txt unless you set respectRobots: true. web_crawl honors it unless you turn that off.

• Lookout does not render a browser and does not synthesize an answer.

Companion MCP tools

Each product is independent. Install only the tools your agent needs.

Documentation

Development

bun install
bun test
bun run doctor
bun run docs:build

License

MIT