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Tor Web MCP

Local MCP server for LM Studio with two tools:

• tor_search(query, max_results=8) — searches Ahmia's indexed onion services.

• tor_fetch(url, max_chars=30000) — fetches a v3 .onion URL through a local Tor SOCKS5 proxy.

Install

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Set TOR_SOCKS_URL if your Tor SOCKS listener is not 127.0.0.1:9050. Tor Browser commonly uses a different port, so verify your setup.

Related MCP server: minimal-mcp-web-search

Test

mcp dev server.py

LM Studio

Configure a local stdio MCP server using absolute paths:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tor-web": {
      "command": "/ABSOLUTE/PATH/tor-mcp/.venv/bin/python",
      "args": ["/ABSOLUTE/PATH/tor-mcp/server.py"]
    }
  }
}

Error semantics

The fetcher deliberately returns LLM-readable error categories. In particular, a search result that is no longer reachable becomes:

[SEARCH_RESULT_STALE]

This means the URL was indexed but is currently unreachable; it does not prove the address is invalid. The model can then try another search result.

Other categories include INVALID_ONION_URL, TOR_SEARCH_TIMEOUT, TOR_SEARCH_HTTP_ERROR, TOR_SEARCH_NETWORK_ERROR, NO_RESULTS, TOR_FETCH_NETWORK_ERROR, TOR_REDIRECT, and TOR_REDIRECT_BLOCKED.

Security boundaries

• Only HTTP/HTTPS v3 .onion URLs are accepted by tor_fetch.

• No automatic redirects outside .onion.

• Response size and network timeouts are bounded.

• No generic arbitrary proxy tool is exposed.

• Content returned by onion services must still be treated as untrusted web content.