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Kindly Web Search MCP Server

Kindly Web Search MCP Server is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Kindly Web Search MCP Server: Web… It has 401 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm -e SERPER_API_KEY -e TAVILY_API_KEY -e GITHUB_TOKEN ghcr.io/shelpuk-ai-technology-consulting/kindly-web-search-mcp-server.

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Install Kindly Web Search MCP Server

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kindly-web-search-mcp-server": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "SERPER_API_KEY",
        "-e",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY",
        "-e",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN",
        "ghcr.io/shelpuk-ai-technology-consulting/kindly-web-search-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SERPER_API_KEY": "your-value",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "your-value",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env SERPER_API_KEY=your-value --env TAVILY_API_KEY=your-value --env GITHUB_TOKEN=your-value --transport stdio kindly-web-search-mcp-server -- docker run -i --rm -e SERPER_API_KEY -e TAVILY_API_KEY -e GITHUB_TOKEN ghcr.io/shelpuk-ai-technology-consulting/kindly-web-search-mcp-server

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kindly-web-search-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "SERPER_API_KEY",
        "-e",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY",
        "-e",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN",
        "ghcr.io/shelpuk-ai-technology-consulting/kindly-web-search-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SERPER_API_KEY": "your-value",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "your-value",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "serper_api_key",
      "description": "SERPER_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "tavily_api_key",
      "description": "TAVILY_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "github_token",
      "description": "GITHUB_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "kindly-web-search-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "SERPER_API_KEY",
        "-e",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY",
        "-e",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN",
        "ghcr.io/shelpuk-ai-technology-consulting/kindly-web-search-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SERPER_API_KEY": "${input:serper_api_key}",
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "${input:tavily_api_key}",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "${input:github_token}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
SERPER_API_KEYsecretNoShown in the README's example configuration.
TAVILY_API_KEYsecretNoShown in the README's example configuration.
SEARXNG_BASE_URLNoShown in the README's example configuration.
GITHUB_TOKENsecretNoShown in the README's example configuration.
KINDLY_BROWSER_EXECUTABLE_PATHNoShown in the README's example configuration.

About Kindly Web Search MCP Server

Web search + robust content retrieval for AI coding tools. Kindly Web Search is a part of the Shelpuk AI Technology Consulting agentic suite – a set of tools that together improve the code quality produced by AI coding agents by 15–20%. Read more on Claude Code generation quality improvement.

  • ai
  • ai-agents
  • ai-tools
  • claude-code
  • codex
  • gemini
  • github-copilot
  • mcp-server
  • web-search
  • searxng

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How do I install the Kindly Web Search MCP Server MCP server?

Add the command docker run -i --rm -e SERPER_API_KEY -e TAVILY_API_KEY -e GITHUB_TOKEN ghcr.io/shelpuk-ai-technology-consulting/kindly-web-search-mcp-server 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 Kindly Web Search MCP Server free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (SERPER_API_KEY, TAVILY_API_KEY and GITHUB_TOKEN) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.

Is Kindly Web Search MCP Server actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 10, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.