x-search-mcp

A thin stdio MCP wrapper around xAI's server-side x_search tool.

The server reads its upstream configuration from environment variables and forwards each search call to an OpenAI/xAI Responses-compatible endpoint. It is designed to work with both the official xAI endpoint and middleware such as CLIProxyAPI that implements the same Responses + x_search protocol.

MCP interface

• Server name: x-search

• Transport: stdio

• Tool: search

Tool arguments:

The handle-filter state is one of three choices: no filter (default), an allow-list, or an exclude-list. Supplying both lists is rejected.

Related MCP server: X Search MCP Server

Environment

The MCP client provides exactly three upstream settings to the spawned process:

• XAI_BASE_URL — for example https://api.x.ai/v1 or an OpenAI/xAI-compatible middleware base URL ending in /v1

• XAI_MODEL — for example grok-4.6

• XAI_API_KEY — bearer credential accepted by the configured upstream

The implementation only uses the Responses API. It sends one native x_search tool and forces tool use with tool_choice: "required".

Install / run

For clients that support stdio MCP servers, run directly from GitHub:

npx -y github:sandlong/x-search-mcp

and provide the three variables in that MCP server's env configuration. For example:

{
  "command": "npx",
  "args": ["-y", "github:sandlong/x-search-mcp"],
  "env": {
    "XAI_BASE_URL": "https://api.x.ai/v1",
    "XAI_MODEL": "grok-4.6",
    "XAI_API_KEY": "..."
  }
}

Development

npm install
npm run typecheck
npm test
npm run build

Behavior

• No Chat Completions compatibility layer.

• No result rewriting or citation cleanup; xAI/middleware output text is returned as received.

• Non-2xx upstream response bodies are returned to the MCP client verbatim.

• No HTTP server, database, or persistent state.