widescreen-research

Bidirectional MCP server orchestrating an army of research drones on Cloud Run in GCP.

Repo status

• Primary implementation: Go (coordinator and drone)

• Examples: Node (under examples/node)

Related MCP server: Google Maps MCP Server for Cloud Run

Clone

git clone https://github.com/glassBead-tc/widescreen-research.git
cd widescreen-research

Quickstart (Go)

go version  # require 1.23+
go mod download

# terminal 1
LOG_LEVEL=debug go run ./cmd/coordinator

# terminal 2
DRONE_TYPE=research EXA_API_KEY=your-local-only-key LOG_LEVEL=debug go run ./cmd/drone

Open http://localhost:8080 and GET /health.

Docker (Go)

docker build -t widescreen/coordinator:dev .
docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 widescreen/coordinator:dev

Deploy to Cloud Run (Go)

Preferred: inject secrets from Secret Manager. Example:

gcloud run deploy widescreen-coordinator \
  --source . \
  --region=us-central1 \
  --allow-unauthenticated \
  --set-env-vars=LOG_LEVEL=info \
  --set-secrets=EXA_API_KEY=exa_api_key:latest

Node examples (optional)

The Node projects live under ./examples/node/ and are provided as examples only.

• Requires Node 18+ LTS

• See each example's README for usage

Architecture and design

See project_spec.md for the canonical architecture, roles, and protocols.

Directory layout

• cmd/coordinator: Go coordinator service (binary)

• cmd/drone: Go drone worker (binary)

• pkg/...: Reusable Go packages

• examples/node/...: Node example MCP servers and templates

Operations

• Endpoints: GET / (info), GET /health (readiness)

• Logging: structured logs; control via LOG_LEVEL

• Recommended: enable OpenTelemetry to Cloud Monitoring (future work)

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md (coming soon). Please run go fmt/go vet and tests locally before submitting PRs.