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Search MCP servers return web or index results an agent can cite. Compare whether the server runs locally or calls a hosted API. Filtered to servers VS Code can run. 4505 published MCP servers match this ranking that VS Code can run. The highest trust scores right now are Firecrawl MCP Server at 77, Zotero MCP at 77, haiku.rag at 74. The order is the published trust score: registry record, license, maintenance, popularity, documentation, and security signals. Featured slots, when an editor sets them, are labeled and do not change the score. Best search MCP servers for VS Code is not a paid placement.
Every server that matches this ranking, ordered by trust score.
by firecrawl · JavaScript
Firecrawl, the context API for AI agents: search, scrape, interact with the web, plus paper search.
by 54yyyu · Python
Search, read, annotate, and add to your Zotero research library, local or web.
Local-first agentic RAG with citations - hybrid search, reranking, multimodal document retrieval
by githits-com · TypeScript
Search public open-source code, documentation, metadata, vulnerabilities, changelogs, and examples.
by cyanheads · TypeScript
Search NOAA climate stations and datasets, fetch historical weather observations.
by cyanheads · TypeScript
Browse Hacker News feeds, threads, and user profiles with full-text search.
by cyanheads · TypeScript
Decode VINs, search recalls, complaints, crash ratings, and investigations.
B2B lead and company data for AI agents: free search, pay only for emails, phones, profiles.
Local-first, cloud-friendly memory — 100+ tools, 99.2% LongMemEval-S retrieval@8, hybrid search.
by aliasunder · TypeScript
Standalone MCP server for Obsidian vaults — hybrid search, notes & files, memory, tasks, OAuth 2.1
by felipebasurto · Python
Flight and hotel search for the terminal, Python, and AI assistants.
by roomi-fields · Python
Local retrieval for AI agents: index code, docs, PDFs, data in SQLite; 24 parsers, served via MCP.
by trackly-app · JavaScript
Search 250K+ jobs, 5,400+ companies. MCP for Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor.
by cyanheads · TypeScript
Search EPA compliance, TRI, Superfund, drinking-water, EJScreen, and AirNow data.
by bingowon · TypeScript
Apple developer docs and WWDC transcripts with RAG retrieval and Jev relevance ranking.
by sriram-pr · Go
Crawl documentation sites into local corpora agents can search, read, and diff fully offline.
by smaniches · Python
MCP server for the Semantic Scholar API: search 200M+ papers, citations, authors, recommendations.
by openapi · Python
Search, read and grow a Karpathy-style LLM wiki of linked Markdown pages, with cited answers.
Markdown-first long-term memory for AI agents. Hybrid BM25 + vector search, runs locally.
by superagnt · JavaScript
YouTube data for AI agents: channels, videos, transcripts, comments, search. Video research.
by cyanheads · TypeScript
Fleet discovery for the cyanheads MCP ecosystem — semantic search + install snippets.
by cyanheads · TypeScript
Search USGS and EMSC seismic data — real-time feeds, event queries, and earthquake counts.
Local Markdown/Obsidian knowledge substrate for MCP agents with governed memory and hybrid search.
by tonydzi · Python
Recall over your markdown notes: vector search plus your [[wikilinks]] as a graph, in SQLite.