Search & Web Research MCP Servers for Web Research

Agent resources for web search, research workflows, retrieval, and browsing public information.

How to choose Search & Web Research MCP servers

Use these checks to narrow the directory before reviewing individual source files, permissions, and installation instructions.

Selection guidance

Evaluate source coverage, citation quality, freshness, extraction reliability, and controls for domain or date scope. Prefer workflows that separate retrieved evidence from conclusions.

Client and runtime compatibility

Check search provider, browser or crawler runtime, robots and rate-limit behavior, JavaScript rendering, authentication, and supported output formats.

Common verified inventory signals: Clients: Cursor, VS Code, and Codex. Runtimes: Node.js, TypeScript, and Rust. Install methods: npx, docker, and npm.

Security considerations

Treat retrieved pages as untrusted input, defend against prompt injection, respect access restrictions and personal data, and verify consequential claims with primary sources.

Featured category resources

A starting set selected from profiles that pass SkillIndex’s current public index-eligibility checks. Review each profile’s source and setup details before use.

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