260 MCP tools across 49 domains. AI Flywheel, quality gates, research, web scraping.
260 MCP tools across 49 domains. AI Flywheel, quality gates, research, web scraping. That is what the nodebench mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
NodeBench is a research and reporting product built around five user-facing surfaces:
The server publishes 4 tools. What each one is for:
Key — RequiredGEMINI_API_KEY — YesLINKUP_API_KEY — RecommendedVITE_CONVEX_URL — YesConfiguration is passed through the environment: GEMINI_API_KEY, LINKUP_API_KEY, VITE_CONVEX_URL. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.
Among the search and retrieval options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Nodebench's toolset — Key, GEMINI_API_KEY, LINKUP_API_KEY and 1 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by HomenShum; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Nodebench's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Key | Required |
| GEMINI_API_KEY | Yes |
| LINKUP_API_KEY | Recommended |
| VITE_CONVEX_URL | Yes |
{
"mcpServers": {
"nodebench": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "nodebench-mcp"],
"env": {
"GEMINI_API_KEY": "your-value",
"LINKUP_API_KEY": "your-value",
"VITE_CONVEX_URL": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| GEMINI_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| LINKUP_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| VITE_CONVEX_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
The simplest web tool that matters — fetch any URL and get model-ready markdown back.
Industrial-strength web extraction — render, scrape, crawl and search entire sites into clean markdown.
Puppeteer-powered browser control that drives pages from the accessibility tree instead of pixels.
Search built for AI, not humans — semantic web search that returns model-ready content, plus code context.
Answers, not links — delegate questions to Perplexity's search-grounded models and get cited responses back.
Put 6,000+ pre-built scrapers at your assistant's fingertips through one MCP endpoint.