Bob Research Tools MCP MCP server

Provides paid web research, fact-checking, search, summarization, and text extraction tools for AI agents using the x402 payment protocol on Base or Solana.

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No sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-10-05Operated by Assimilate This

MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)

https://bob.assimilatethis.com/mcp

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What you can do with it

Answer research questions from the live web
Check claims against live web sources
Generate short summaries of web pages
Extract clean markdown text from URLs

Tools advertised by the last live check:

research.answer
research.factcheck
page.summarize
web.search
page.extract
web.news
research.market
research.company

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Each snippet registers the same endpoint; pick the client you use.

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers a Streamable HTTP server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.

Claude Code configuration

claude mcp add --transport http bob-research-tools-mcp https://bob.assimilatethis.com/mcp

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).

Codex configuration

codex mcp add bob-research-tools-mcp --url https://bob.assimilatethis.com/mcp

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable bob-research-tools-mcp in your MCP settings.

Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bob-research-tools-mcp": {
      "url": "https://bob.assimilatethis.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure). The type must be streamableHttp for a remote HTTP server.

Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bob-research-tools-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://bob.assimilatethis.com/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start bob-research-tools-mcp and inspect its tools.

VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "bob-research-tools-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bob.assimilatethis.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.

Gemini CLI configuration

gemini mcp add --transport http bob-research-tools-mcp https://bob.assimilatethis.com/mcp

Claude Desktop

Merge this into claude_desktop_config.json (macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\), then restart Claude Desktop.

Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bob-research-tools-mcp": {
      "url": "https://bob.assimilatethis.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.

Windsurf configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bob-research-tools-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://bob.assimilatethis.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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