Web Search MCP
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXA_API_KEY | No | Enables Exa provider | |
| SEARXNG_URL | No | SearXNG base URL | http://localhost:18443 |
| TAVILY_API_KEY | No | Enables Tavily provider | |
| WSM_TIMEOUT_MS | No | Global search timeout in milliseconds | 25000 |
| WSM_MAX_RESULTS | No | Default max results | 10 |
| WSM_LLM_PROVIDER | No | LLM provider for quality mode: 'haiku', 'local', or 'none' | none |
| ANTHROPIC_API_KEY | No | Required when WSM_LLM_PROVIDER=haiku | |
| FIRECRAWL_API_KEY | No | Enables Firecrawl in extract pipeline | |
| WSM_LOCAL_LLM_URL | No | Required when WSM_LLM_PROVIDER=local |
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| searchA | Multi-source web search with RRF fusion. Providers tried in parallel: SearXNG/ddgr/Tavily/Exa/opencli-zh. Results deduplicated by URL and reranked by reciprocal rank fusion. Snippets cleaned. |
| vertical_searchA | Vertical-domain structured search via AnySearch. Use for finance (real-time quotes, fundamentals), academic (papers), security (CVE), ip (patents), legal, health. Returns structured payload (field-level data, not flattened). |
| vertical_sub_domainsA | Discover sub-domains and required parameters for a given vertical domain. Call before vertical_search when sub_domain schema is unknown. |
| vertical_batchC | Up to 5 vertical queries in parallel via AnySearch. |
| extractA | Extract clean markdown from a URL. Tries defuddle → opencli adapter → Firecrawl → opencli browser in order. |
| doctorC | Diagnose provider availability and health. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
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