agent-web-search-mcp

Standalone Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the agent-web-search API.

A thin stdio wrapper — it just calls the API over HTTP and formats results for any MCP-compatible agent (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Pi, etc.).

This package is a client of the agent-web-search engine, not the engine itself. You need a running instance of the engine (see below) before the MCP can do anything.

Install

uv tool install git+https://github.com/blueewhitee/agent-web-search-mcp

Related MCP server: Tavily Web Search MCP Server

Configure your MCP client

Add this to your MCP config (e.g. ~/.pi/agent/mcp.json for Pi, claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-web-search": {
      "command": "agent-web-search-mcp",
      "env": {
        "AGENT_WEB_SEARCH_API_URL": "http://localhost:8000"
      }
    }
  }
}

AGENT_WEB_SEARCH_API_URL defaults to http://localhost:8000 — set it to wherever your engine is reachable.

What you get

A single tool, web_search, that:

• routes the query to the engine's intent detector (code / news / general),

• fetches + extracts + ranks results,

• returns ranked chunks with scores and source URLs.

Requirements

• A running agent-web-search engine (the FastAPI service from the agent-web-search repo). Easiest path: clone that repo and docker compose up.

• Python ≥ 3.12.

Development

git clone https://github.com/blueewhitee/agent-web-search-mcp
cd agent-web-search-mcp
uv tool install --editable .

The agent-web-search-mcp command will then reflect local changes on restart.

License

MIT (same as the engine).