MCP server for advanced web search using Tavily
Nothing to run from here
Argus Search is installed from its publisher's own source and answers where it runs, so this marketplace is not in the path of a single call. There is no address here to send one to, and a panel that pretended otherwise would be showing you an answer we made up. Install it and call it from your own client — the Installation tab has the entry for each one.
92/100
trust score
11
downloads a day
local
runs on your machine
192
downloads in 30d
What it does
Retrieval platform for AI agents — 14 search providers, 12-step content extraction, dead URL recovery, site capture, and local corpus storage. One API.
Quickstart
# 1 — add it to Claude Code
claude mcp add --scope user argus-search-mcp '--' uvx --from argus-search argus
# 2 — ask your agent for something these tools do
# valyu_answer, argus_paths, recover_dead_article and 13 more
Argus Search costs nothing on mcprush: there is no plan to choose here, no cap to set and nothing mcprush can bill you for.
Publishernot claimed
KHAll 1 server
khamel831 server
1 category
Collected from a public index. Nobody has claimed this account, so nothing here was written by its author — claim it if it is yours.
Installation
Where are you running it?
Every route below installs the same thing and ends at the same approval screen. This one runs on your machine: your client starts Argus Search as a process under your own user, with your files and your network, so the tool surface below is what it can do to your computer rather than to a server somewhere else. Its scan result is on the Security tab — read the surface before you approve it.
Claude Codedeclared by this listing
This is a public server: you run it yourself and this marketplace is not in the path. You need uv (docs.astral.sh/uv): uvx comes with it. Claude Code registers it in one command; --scope user makes it available in every project. The '--' is in quotes so that PowerShell passes it on.
claude mcp add --scope user argus-search-mcp '--' uvx --from argus-search argusReconnect, or start a new session, and the tools appear in the model’s tool list.
Free on mcprush, and it runs from its publisher’s own package: this marketplace is not in the path, so there is no key of ours to hold and no card to add.
What it asks of you
Nothing is required, but it can take ARGUS_WOLFRAM_API_KEY (WolframAlpha App ID (2,000 free computed-answer queries/month)), ARGUS_BRAVE_API_KEY (Brave Search API key (2,000 free queries/month)), ARGUS_TAVILY_API_KEY (Tavily API key (1,000 free queries/month)), ARGUS_EXA_API_KEY (Exa API key (1,000 free queries/month)), ARGUS_SERPER_API_KEY (Serper API key (2,500 one-time free queries)), ARGUS_LINKUP_API_KEY (Linkup API key (1,000 free queries/month)), ARGUS_SEARXNG_BASE_URL (SearXNG instance URL (self-hosted, aggregates 70+ engines)), ARGUS_DATA_ROOT (Optional override for the writable Argus runtime corpus root) if you want to set them.
What it writes
One config entry your client uses to start the process locally. A local server runs with your file system and your network, which is why it is priced without metering.
What you approve
16 tools, with what each one reads, writes and reaches shown before you agree — the same list on every route above. Read the tool surface.
Tool surface
What the model actually sees. Descriptions are diffed on every release — see version history.
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Free
$0 forever
- Every tool, no call limit
- No card, and mcprush charges nothing for it
- Source published under MIT
- Runs on your machine — nothing of it reaches our gateway
- Nothing to cap, because mcprush bills nothing
What counts against your monthly calls
| Tool | Unit | Calls used | Out of the allowance |
|---|
Nothing here is billable: mcprush charges nothing to install Argus Search or to call it, at any volume.
Call allowance · this installenforced at the gateway
Monthly allowance, in calls
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Alert at 80% · then the tool returns a normal MCP error
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ATrust score 92 / 100
Release 1.6.4 · scanned 14 Oct 2026
Two independent axes, because powerful and malicious are different questions. The grade is threat only. The capability level is blast radius, and it is never a penalty on the grade — it is priced as one subtract-only term in the score, where you can see it.
Threat score99
Client score92
Findings16 threat · 0 capability
Capabilityhigh
Coveragesource
Verificationrepo
Surface digestc3953ce6b561eb39e60e1616cfb721f938ccb54f41c94c4b346a444e57c1d030
Score vectorthreat 99 → client 92
| Term | Level | What it prices | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| capability-exposure | high | capability blast radius (high) — client exposure if the model is manipulated | −6 |
| verification-discount | repo | publisher verification (public source) — no provenance, but the source is public and inspectable | −1 |
| coverage-honesty | source | inspection depth (source) — how much of the target the scan could see | −0 |
score = clamp(round(threatScore − E_cap − E_ver − E_cov), 0, 100). No model, no opinion, no network call at scoring time: the same methodology version against the same bytes always produces this number, and every line above is a field of the report rather than a summary of it.
What the scan could actually read
A grade is only as meaningful as its coverage, so the scanner publishes its own depth before it publishes its result.
Tool surfaceread
Implementation sourceread
Package metadataread
Live transportnot available
Tools were statically extracted from the published source (16 recovered), not enumerated from a running server. Tool-poisoning, Unicode-smuggling, capability and toxic-flow analysis ran on this inferred surface, but a mis-parsed registration could be missed or mis-attributed, so tool-derived findings are capped below “confirmed”. To grade the real runtime surface, scan the running server: --command "npx -y <package>".
6 of the 16 recovered tools are registered only when transport not in {"stdio", "sse", "streamable-http"} is false (argus/mcp/server.py:1113) — typically when a key or option is configured. They are part of the server's surface and were analysed; a server started without that configuration exposes only the other 8.
2 of the 16 recovered tools are registered only when v2_registered holds (argus/mcp/server.py:1248) — typically when a key or option is configured. They are part of the server's surface and were analysed; a server started without that configuration exposes only the other 8.
Capability — what it could do if the model were manipulated
Tags derived from each tool’s schema and the implementation, not from what the tool calls itself. high is the level these add up to.
8 tools are registered unconditionally · (1) 6 more only when transport not in {"stdio", "sse", "streamable-http"} is false (argus/mcp/server.py:1113) · (2) 2 more only when v2_registered holds (argus/mcp/server.py:1248) — typically when a key or option is configured. All 16 are in the table below and were analysed; the conditional ones are marked.
| Tool | Capability tags | Why the tag was assigned |
|---|---|---|
| valyu_answer | no tags | |
| argus_paths | no tags | |
| recover_dead_article | no tags | |
| capture_site | no tags | |
| build_research_pack | no tags | |
| read_pack_file | no tags | |
| test_provider | no tags | |
| cookie_health | no tags | |
| search_web conditional (1) | untrusted-input | untrusted-input: keyword "search web" |
| recover_url conditional (1) | no tags | |
| expand_links conditional (1) | no tags | |
| extract_content conditional (1) | no tags | |
| search_health conditional (1) | no tags | |
| search_budgets conditional (1) | no tags | |
| get_workflow_status conditional (2) | no tags | |
| read_workflow_artifact conditional (2) | no tags |
Toxic-flow graph
The lethal trifecta, checked as a graph rather than as a checklist: untrusted input, a sensitive source and an external sink have to meet before there is a path worth worrying about.
The public result for this release does not print the flow graph, so there is nothing to show here. That is not the same as "no paths were found": what the scan did read is above, under coverage.
Supply chain and provenance
Integrityfirst-seen
Surface digestc3953ce6b561eb39
Scanned2026-10-14
This is the first scan of this surface here, so there is nothing yet to compare it against.
Every result on this tab comes from one deterministic pass over the published package — offline, rule by rule, and auditable line by line above. Same methodology version, same bytes, same score.
Release history
Always latest — the install command names no version, so it installs the newest release when it runs; the current release on file is 1.6.4. Pin a release below and the command asks for exactly that one.
1.6.4
undated
latestNo release note was published with this version.
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