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DeepSeek Web Search for Gemini CLI

io.github.matthewyin/deepseek-mcp

MCP server for DeepSeek tools: scored web search, page-to-Markdown fetch, OCR, ASR and TTS

client:Gemini CLI transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install DeepSeek Web Search in Gemini CLI

~/.gemini/settings.json · windows: %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "deepseek-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-deepseek-search"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DEEPSEEK_API_KEY": "<DEEPSEEK_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Gemini expands $VAR and ${VAR} inside env values, so a secret can live in your shell rather than this file. Gemini CLI docs

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