TinySearch MCP

TinySearch is a self-hosted web-research tool for AI agents that searches the web, reads the best pages, removes low-value content, and returns compact evidence with source URLs. It moves the work of selecting useful passages in front of the model, lowering cost by providing smaller model context and running local retrieval by default using ONNX embeddings and hybrid reranking.

Package and access

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Community listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by TinySuiteHQ

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What you can do with it

Search the web for specific topics
Crawl and read relevant web pages locally
Return compact evidence chunks with source URLs to AI agents

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.4.0

mcp-registry: io.github.MarcellM01/tinysearch@0.4.0 Source repository Project website

Maintenance checked: Oct 31, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

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docker.io/marcellm01/tinysearch:v0.4.0

oci

docker.io/marcellm01/tinysearch:v0.4.0 package definition

{
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "docker.io/marcellm01/tinysearch:v0.4.0",
  "registryType": "oci",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "MCP_TRANSPORT",
      "description": "MCP transport to serve: stdio (default), sse, or streamable-http."
    },
    {
      "name": "TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH",
      "description": "Path to a tinysearch_config.json inside the container, for overriding search/embedding defaults."
    },
    {
      "name": "SEARXNG_URL",
      "description": "SearXNG search endpoint URL. Only needed if not using the bundled Compose SearXNG service."
    },
    {
      "name": "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND",
      "description": "Embedding implementation: onnx (default) or openai_compatible."
    },
    {
      "name": "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL",
      "description": "Local ONNX preset (fast, balanced, quality) or a Hugging Face ONNX repository id."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tinysearch-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "MCP_TRANSPORT=<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT>",
        "-e",
        "TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH=<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH>",
        "-e",
        "SEARXNG_URL=<YOUR_SEARXNG_URL>",
        "-e",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND=<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND>",
        "-e",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL=<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL>",
        "docker.io/marcellm01/tinysearch:v0.4.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT>",
        "TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH": "<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH>",
        "SEARXNG_URL": "<YOUR_SEARXNG_URL>",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND": "<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND>",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tinysearch-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "MCP_TRANSPORT=<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT>",
        "-e",
        "TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH=<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH>",
        "-e",
        "SEARXNG_URL=<YOUR_SEARXNG_URL>",
        "-e",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND=<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND>",
        "-e",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL=<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL>",
        "docker.io/marcellm01/tinysearch:v0.4.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT>",
        "TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH": "<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH>",
        "SEARXNG_URL": "<YOUR_SEARXNG_URL>",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND": "<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND>",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "tinysearch-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "MCP_TRANSPORT=<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT>",
        "-e",
        "TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH=<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH>",
        "-e",
        "SEARXNG_URL=<YOUR_SEARXNG_URL>",
        "-e",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND=<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND>",
        "-e",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL=<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL>",
        "docker.io/marcellm01/tinysearch:v0.4.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT>",
        "TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH": "<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH>",
        "SEARXNG_URL": "<YOUR_SEARXNG_URL>",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND": "<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND>",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tinysearch-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "MCP_TRANSPORT=<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT>",
        "-e",
        "TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH=<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH>",
        "-e",
        "SEARXNG_URL=<YOUR_SEARXNG_URL>",
        "-e",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND=<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND>",
        "-e",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL=<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL>",
        "docker.io/marcellm01/tinysearch:v0.4.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT>",
        "TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH": "<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH>",
        "SEARXNG_URL": "<YOUR_SEARXNG_URL>",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND": "<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND>",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "<YOUR_TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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