Deep Research is an agent-based tool that provides web search and advanced research capabilities. It leverages HuggingFace's smolagents and is implemented as an MCP server.
deep-research-mcp is an MCP project maintained in the hajime-y/deep-research-mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “Deep Research is an agent-based tool that provides web search and advanced research capabilities. It leverages HuggingFace's smolagents and is implemented as an MCP server”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.
The project provides a local client configuration using docker. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.
Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.
{
"mcpServers": {
"deep-research-mcp": {
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"-i",
"--rm",
"-e",
"OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key",
"-e",
"HF_TOKEN=your_huggingface_token",
"-e",
"SERPER_API_KEY=your_serper_api_key",
"deep-research-mcp"
]
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
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