# Bytedance Search (MCP server)

> Bytedance Search is an MCP server that adds web browsing tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. MCP server for web search operations. It has 39,206 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with npx -y @agent-infra/mcp-server-search.

MCP server for web search operations The Open-Source Multimodal AI Agent Stack: Connecting Cutting-Edge AI Models and Agent Infra

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop |
| GitHub stars | 39,206 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Language | TypeScript |
| Transport | stdio |
| Packages | npm: @agent-infra/mcp-server-search |
| Remote URL | none |
| Needs API key | no |
| Official | no |
| Works with | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code |
| Category | Web & browsing |
| Latest release | v0.3.0 (Nov 4, 2025) |
| Last commit | Sep 24, 2026 |
| MCP registry name | io.github.bytedance/mcp-server-search |

## Install

### Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bytedance-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@agent-infra/mcp-server-search"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

### Claude Code

```sh
claude mcp add --transport stdio bytedance-search -- npx -y @agent-infra/mcp-server-search
```

### Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bytedance-search": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@agent-infra/mcp-server-search"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

### VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json)

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "bytedance-search": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@agent-infra/mcp-server-search"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Config formats checked against the official docs on 2026-10-07.

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