MCP Servers
Hand-picked Model Context Protocol servers, reviewed with copy-pasteable configs.
- Official (Anthropic)Active★ 4.6
Brave Search
Give Claude real-time web search via the Brave Search API. The fastest way to add up-to-date knowledge without paying for Perplexity.
#search#web#realtime#official - Official (Vendor)Active★ 4.3
Tavily Search
Tavily's MCP — purpose-built search API for agents, with citations and structured snippets ready for synthesis.
#search#web#citations#agents - Official (Vendor)Abandoned★ 4.3
Delv
Search the Delv AI tools, MCP, and Skills directory directly from inside your agent. Ask 'what's a good MCP for databases?' in Claude Desktop and get editorial picks, not a random link dump.
#delv#directory#search#meta - CommunityActive★ 4.3
OpenZIM MCP
Accesses ZIM format knowledge bases offline including Wikipedia and educational archives with semantic search.
#zim#wikipedia#offline#knowledge - CommunityAbandoned★ 4.3
Wolfram Alpha MCP
Queries Wolfram Alpha for real-time computational knowledge, maths, and scientific data through the API.
#wolfram-alpha#maths#computation#computational-engine - CommunityActive★ 4.3
MCP Local RAG
Local RAG-like web search across 9+ backends with no API keys, running entirely on your machine for fresh web context.
#rag#search#local#privacy - CommunityActive★ 4.3
SearXNG MCP
Connects to any SearXNG instance for web search and URL content fetching with pagination and time filtering.
#search#searxng#self-hosted#privacy - CommunityActive★ 4.3
DuckDuckGo MCP
Web search through DuckDuckGo with built-in rate limiting, SafeSearch, and content fetching, no API key required.
#search#duckduckgo#privacy#search-mcp - CommunityAbandoned★ 4.3
NCBI MCP Server
NCBI and PubMed literature search with caching, MeSH integration, related articles, and batch processing for life sciences.
#ncbi#pubmed#biology#research - CommunityAbandoned★ 4.3
Papers With Code MCP
Searches Papers With Code for ML papers, datasets, authors, and benchmark results.
#ml#research#papers#academic - CommunitySlow★ 4.3
Simple PubMed MCP
Searches PubMed through the Entrez API with full-text access for open-access articles and abstracts otherwise.
#pubmed#medical#research#academic - CommunityActive★ 4.3
arXiv MCP Server
Searches and downloads arXiv papers with optional PDF support for research workflows.
#arxiv#research#academic#papers - CommunityActive★ 4.3
arXiv LaTeX MCP
Fetches LaTeX source of arXiv papers so mathematical notation and equations survive the round trip into the model.
#arxiv#research#latex#academic - CommunityAbandoned★ 4.3
BioThings MCP
Queries mygene.info, myvariant.info, and mychem.info for gene annotations, variants, and chemical compound data.
#bioinformatics#genomics#research#api-wrapper - CommunityActive★ 4.3
BioMCP
Unified biomedical research gateway covering PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, UniProt, and related sources with one grammar.
#biomedical#research#pubmed#clinical-trials - Official (Vendor)Active★ 4.3
Kagi Search
Privacy-focused search via Kagi. Great if your team already pays for Kagi and wants Claude to use the same backend.
#kagi#privacy#search#search-engine - Official (Vendor)Active★ 4.3
Perplexity Ask
Perplexity Sonar models inside your agent. Real-time web answers with citations, faster than DIY RAG.
#perplexity#sonar#search#official - Official (Vendor)Active★ 4.3
Exa Search
Exa neural search for Claude. Particularly good for "find pages similar to X" and research-grade discovery.
#exa#neural-search#research#search-mcp