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Guaardvark

Guaardvark is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Local AI studio on your GPU: images, video, music, voice, RAG. It has 286 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx guaardvark.

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Install Guaardvark

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "guaardvark": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "guaardvark"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio guaardvark -- uvx guaardvark

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "guaardvark": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "guaardvark"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "guaardvark": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "guaardvark"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About Guaardvark

The self-hosted AI studio. Chat with your own files, hand tasks to agents that use a real desktop and browser, run parallel coding agents, and generate video, images, music and voice. Everything runs locally, on your own GPU.

  • ai-agents
  • local-ai
  • ollama
  • self-hosted
  • video-generation
  • comfyui
  • multi-agent
  • rag
  • mcp
  • claude-code

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How do I install the Guaardvark MCP server?

Add the command uvx guaardvark to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Guaardvark free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Guaardvark actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 24, 2026. The latest release is v3.3.0, published Oct 20, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.