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Tinysearch

Tinysearch is an MCP server that adds tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Self-hosted web research for MCP agents. It has 234 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx tinysuite-search.

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Install Tinysearch

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

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tinysearch": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "tinysuite-search"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "your-value",
        "TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH": "your-value",
        "SEARXNG_URL": "your-value",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND": "your-value",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env MCP_TRANSPORT=your-value --env TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH=your-value --env SEARXNG_URL=your-value --env TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND=your-value --env TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL=your-value --transport stdio tinysearch -- uvx tinysuite-search

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tinysearch": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "tinysuite-search"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "your-value",
        "TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH": "your-value",
        "SEARXNG_URL": "your-value",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND": "your-value",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "tinysearch": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "tinysuite-search"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "your-value",
        "TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH": "your-value",
        "SEARXNG_URL": "your-value",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND": "your-value",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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
MCP_TRANSPORTNoMCP transport to serve: stdio (default), sse, or streamable-http.
TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATHNoPath to a tinysearch_config.json inside the container, for overriding search/embedding defaults.
SEARXNG_URLNoSearXNG search endpoint URL. Only needed if not using the bundled Compose SearXNG service.
TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKENDNoEmbedding implementation: onnx (default) or openai_compatible.
TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODELNoLocal ONNX preset (fast, balanced, quality) or a Hugging Face ONNX repository id.

About Tinysearch

TinySearch searches, crawls, and reranks the web locally, then gives your agent only the evidence worth putting in its context.

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How do I install the Tinysearch MCP server?

Add the command uvx tinysuite-search 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 Tinysearch free?

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

Is Tinysearch actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 8, 2026. The latest release is v0.6.6, published Oct 8, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.