A free, private research assistant for AI development environments that searches the web and scrapes content using DuckDuckGo and Python. This MCP
A free, private research assistant for AI development environments that searches the web and scrapes content using DuckDuckGo and Python. This MCP server gives AI assistants the ability to access real-time information while keeping all. Exposed over MCP by the local research server mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverInstallation — 1. Clone this repository: bash git clone https://github.com/Unlock-MCP/local-research-server.git cd local-research-serverConfiguration — The Configuration tool exposed by this serverSetup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Local Research Server's toolset — Prerequisites, Installation, Configuration — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by Unlock-MCP; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Installation | 1. **Clone this repository:** bash git clone https://github.com/Unlock-MCP/local-research-server.git cd local-research-server |
| Configuration | The Configuration tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"local-researcher": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"/path/to/your/local-research-server",
"run",
"python",
"research_server.py"
]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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