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Search2ai

Search2ai is an MCP server that adds cloud and DevOps tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Self-hosted search gateway for AI agents. It has 1,282 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y search2ai.

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Install Search2ai

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

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search2ai": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "search2ai"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARCH1API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env SEARCH1API_KEY=your-value --transport stdio search2ai -- npx -y search2ai

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search2ai": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "search2ai"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARCH1API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "search1api_key",
      "description": "SEARCH1API_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "search2ai": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "search2ai"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARCH1API_KEY": "${input:search1api_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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
SEARCH1API_KEYsecretNoShown in the README's example configuration.

About Search2ai

A self-hosted search gateway for AI agents and AI clients. Connect the search and page extraction services you configure through MCP, an HTTP API, or a JavaScript / TypeScript library. When a provider is rate limited, times out, or fails, the gateway tries the next one in your configured order and reports which service answered and why others failed.

  • search
  • ai-agents
  • cloudflare-workers
  • hono
  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • openai-compatible
  • search-api
  • search-gateway
  • search1api

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FAQ

Search2ai FAQ

Still curious? Email info@appsgit.com.

How do I install the Search2ai MCP server?

Add the command npx -y search2ai 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 Search2ai free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (SEARCH1API_KEY) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.

Is Search2ai actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 22, 2026. The latest release is v0.3.2, published Oct 22, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.