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tinysearch for Claude Desktop

io.github.marcellm01/tinysearch

Self-hosted web research for MCP agents.

client:Claude Desktop transport:stdio runtime:oci

Install tinysearch in Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json · windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tinysearch": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/marcellm01/tinysearch:v0.4.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "<MCP_TRANSPORT>",
        "TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH": "<TINYSEARCH_CONFIG_PATH>",
        "SEARXNG_URL": "<SEARXNG_URL>",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND": "<TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_BACKEND>",
        "TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "<TINYSEARCH_EMBEDDING_MODEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config opens this file. Restart the app after saving. Claude Desktop docs

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