You.com MCP Server
OfficialServer Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| YDC_API_KEY | No | Your You.com API key for authenticated access. Required if YDC_PROFILE is not set. | |
| YDC_PROFILE | No | Profile to use. Set to 'free' for free tier (no API key needed). Omit or set to other value for authenticated access with YDC_API_KEY. | |
| YDC_ALLOWED_TOOLS | No | Comma-separated list of tools to enable (e.g., 'you-finance'). |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
Protocol revision2025-11-25
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {
"listChanged": false
} |
| logging | {} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| you-searchA | Search the web for current information, facts, news, and sources. Best for: current events, facts about people, companies, and organizations, finding primary sources, verifying claims. Returns: ranked results with URLs and snippets — read them with you-contents before answering; snippets are not page content. Query tips:
|
| you-discoverA | Discover AI agents, MCP servers, A2A agents, and skills via ARD Agent Finder services and the You.com catalog. Search-only — never installs or connects. Returns ranked results with relevance scores. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
TDQS
Scored across 2 tools
you-discover targets agents/MCP servers/skills in a catalog, while you-search targets the open web — the descriptions make this boundary explicit. The only mild overlap is that both are 'search' operations returning ranked results, which could tempt misselection when an agent wants general discovery.
Both tools use the same 'you-' prefix plus a lowercase action word in kebab-case (you-discover, you-search). No mixing of conventions, and the names are self-describing.
Two tools is on the thin side for a search/discovery server, even a focused one. Given the descriptions reference a companion content-reading tool (you-contents), the surface feels intentionally trimmed rather than well-scoped.
Both descriptions instruct the agent to read results with 'you-contents', but that tool is absent from the set, creating a dead end for the core workflow of turning snippets into page content. Search and discovery are covered, but the advertised retrieval lifecycle is incomplete.