Argus Retrieval MCP Server

Multi-provider search broker for AI agents: 14 providers, 12-step extraction, retrieval workflows.

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Published as argus-search on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

12 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 9.

Most discussed

Implement S3 extraction finalization and retrieval composition

Wayfinder slice

Implement Task 4 / S3 from docs/superpowers/plans/2026-07-27-retrieval-evidence-mechanical-port.md.

Scope:

immutable extraction plans/outcomes and closed truth tables
privacy-safe bounded attempt traces and durable atomic acceptance
separate archive lookup from externally authorized archive creation
compose accepted retrieval clusters with proven extraction artifacts
preserve temporary narrow retrieval evidence protocol until S7

Acceptance and verification are e

Read the thread · 2026-07-27 · closed · 4 comments

Implement S2 provider batch normalization and private failure evidence

Wayfinder slice

Implement Task 3 / S2 from docs/superpowers/plans/2026-07-27-retrieval-evidence-mechanical-port.md.

Scope:

normalize all 14 provider adapters behind immutable evidence batches
freeze fixture applicability for success, empty, malformed, auth, exhaustion, policy, timeout, rate limit, and 5xx behavior
enforce privacy/bounds, retry/redirect/deadline semantics, typed controls, and extractor fixture compatibility
preserve the legacy broker tuple via the temporary adapter

Read the thread · 2026-07-27 · closed · 4 comments

Cut over private homelab production and retire duplicate authorities

Parent

Wayfinder: make Argus a reliable homelab retrieval platform for Maya

What to build

Complete the production transition as one reversible cutover: publish only private Tailscale ingress, move Maya and agent clients to the authoritative homelab stack, prove the accepted paths, and retire every OCI, Mac-production, LAN, and host-worker duplicate.

Acceptance criteria

API and MCP Docker backends bind host loopback only; PostgreS

Read the thread · 2026-07-23 · closed · 3 comments

Audit Argus documentation against current contracts and production

Parent

Wayfinder: make Argus stable and competitively optimized without a rewrite

Question

Which Argus documentation surfaces are stale, contradictory, incomplete, or unsafe when compared with the current code, generated/public metadata, deployed homelab runtime, provider profile, HTTP/MCP contracts, PostgreSQL recovery evidence, and release/deployment workflow?

Audit the Argus repository's internal and public-facing documentation, includi

Read the thread · 2026-07-25 · closed · 2 comments

Choose the HTTP and MCP compatibility target for evidence-rich results

Parent

#58 — Wayfinder: make Argus stable and competitively optimized without a rewrite

Blocked by

Question

What stable HTTP and MCP compatibility contract should Argus promise while adding richer provenance, evi

Read the thread · 2026-07-25 · closed · 2 comments

Most recent

Inventory Argus provider and extraction contract drift

Parent

#58 — Wayfinder: make Argus stable and competitively optimized without a rewrite

Question

Against the current Argus adapters, schemas, fixtures, and live free-path behavior, plus current official provider documentation, which provider and extraction capabilities, fields, error semantics, freshness controls, and evidence signals are missing or stale? Identify the smallest compatibility shims or normalization rules that preserve existi

Read the thread · 2026-07-25 · closed · 1 comment

Expose truthful readiness, runtime identity, and bounded operational evidence

Parent

Wayfinder: make Argus a reliable homelab retrieval platform for Maya

What to build

Give callers and operators truthful answers about whether Argus is live, initialized, ready, or degraded, which exact release is loaded, and which dependencies and capabilities were recently observed—without turning dependency failure into a restart storm or retaining exhaustive logs.

Acceptance criteria

Separate liveness, startup, readiness

Read the thread · 2026-07-23 · closed · 0 comments

Make HTTP the sole Argus execution authority and MCP stateless

Parent

Wayfinder: make Argus a reliable homelab retrieval platform for Maya

What to build

Collapse production execution into one deep HTTP module. The API process alone owns the broker, providers, browser, budgets, health transitions, persistence, and Maya dispatcher; MCP becomes a stateless protocol adapter over authenticated internal HTTP.

Acceptance criteria

Only the API process constructs the production SearchBroker or owns p

Read the thread · 2026-07-23 · closed · 0 comments

Expose build-research-pack as MCP tool

Wrap the existing build-research-pack workflow as an MCP tool so agents in harnesses can trigger pack creation and pipe output to Maya POST /ingest/file via Hermes without a shell escape.

Read the thread · 2026-07-04 · closed · 1 comment

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