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Robin: AI-Powered Dark Web OSINT

Robin: AI-Powered Dark Web OSINT is an MCP server that adds web browsing tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Dark web OSINT over Tor: search onion engines, scrape pages, report with your… It has 7,440 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm docker.io/apurvsg/robin:v3.1.

github.com/apurvsinghgautam/robin (opens in a new tab)

Install Robin: AI-Powered Dark Web OSINT

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

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "robin-ai-powered-dark-web-osint": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/apurvsg/robin:v3.1"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio robin-ai-powered-dark-web-osint -- docker run -i --rm docker.io/apurvsg/robin:v3.1

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "robin-ai-powered-dark-web-osint": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/apurvsg/robin:v3.1"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "robin-ai-powered-dark-web-osint": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/apurvsg/robin:v3.1"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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 Robin: AI-Powered Dark Web OSINT

Robin is an AI-powered tool for conducting dark web OSINT investigations. It leverages LLMs to refine queries, filter search results from dark web search engines, and provide an investigation summary. Installation • Robin as MCP • Troubleshooting • Contributing • Acknowledgements

  • ai-tool
  • darkweb
  • darkweb-osint
  • investigation-tool
  • llm-powered
  • osint
  • osint-tool

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What is Robin: AI-Powered Dark Web OSINT?

Robin: AI-Powered Dark Web OSINT is an MCP server that adds web browsing tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Dark web OSINT over Tor: search onion engines, scrape pages, report with your… It has 7,440 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm docker.io/apurvsg/robin:v3.1. The source code is at github.com/apurvsinghgautam/robin.

How do I install the Robin: AI-Powered Dark Web OSINT MCP server?

Add the command docker run -i --rm docker.io/apurvsg/robin:v3.1 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 Robin: AI-Powered Dark Web OSINT free?

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

Is Robin: AI-Powered Dark Web OSINT actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 3, 2026. The latest release is v3.1, published Oct 3, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.