mcp-omnisearch MCP Server

MCP server for integrating Omnisearch with LLMs

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Published as mcp-omnisearch on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

30 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 12.

Most discussed

Cross-provider failover and cooldown after 429/outage

Parent: #187

Current behavior

A 429, billing suspension, or timeout fails that one provider call. The tool does not automatically try the next configured search engine or cool the failing one down.

Request

For single-path / auto-routed calls:

On transient errors (429, 503, timeout), retry with the existing backoff helper, then fail over to the next eligible provider.
After repeated failures, cool that provider down for a stepped window (e.g. 1m / 5m / 25m / 1h) so the next calls s

Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Query-intent auto-routing when provider is omitted

Parent: #187

Current behavior

The agent must pass provider on web_search / ai_search / web_extract. Omnisearch does not score the query and pick a backend.

Request

When provider is omitted (or set to auto):

Score configured providers from query signals (freshness, semantic discovery, docs/code, news, etc.).
Pick one winner. This is not fan-out.
Break ties with a documented priority list.
If no provider is eligible, fail visibly (do not invent results).

Keep ex

Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment

RRF merge, URL/title dedupe, and per-result provenance

Parent: #187

Current behavior

Each search response is a single vendor list. There is no cross-provider merge, URL/title identity, or per-hit provenance from multiple engines.

Request

When more than one provider returns results (see the fan-out issue):

Canonicalize identity on URL and title.
Fuse ranks with reciprocal rank fusion (RRF), e.g. sum(1 / (k + rank)) with a documented k (hub default is 60).
Keep a sources list on each fused hit: provider, original rank, optional

Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Optional concurrent multi-provider fan-out on web_search

Parent: #187

Current behavior

web_search accepts one provider and performs one vendor call. Covering Exa + Tavily + Brave requires the agent to issue three tool calls, which most clients will not do.

Request

Add an optional multi-provider path that is off unless asked for:

Keep provider: "exa" (and the other current values) as a single-path call.
Allow something like providers: ["exa", "tavily", "brave"] or provider: "all" / mode: "parallel".
Start the selected c

Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[RFC] Agent-native payment gating for MCP Omnisearch — pay-per-search query via x402

Hi — I've been working on Tomopay, a payment gateway for MCP servers that lets agents pay per tool call via x402 (USDC stablecoins) or Stripe.

I forked your repo and added withPayments() — here's the working fork: https://github.com/tomopay/mcp-omnisearch

With this, agents using MCP Omnisearch would pay $0.01 per search query automatically. No API key management needed on the agent side.

Each provider call (Tavily, Kagi, Perplexity, Brave) could be gate

Read the thread · 2026-04-01 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Most recent

Docker image crashes because MCPO and MCP dependencies are incompatible

Hello, I'm just getting started in self-hosted AI and appreciate your work on this versatile MCP. I'm attempting to set up a Docker Compose stack with Ollama, Open WebUI and this MCP. I support your decision not to publish a full Docker container, just a Dockerfile for us to build. However, it currently has a problem. I'm going to attempt a patch for this.

Summary

The Docker image currently builds successfully but fails to start at runtime. The container enters a restart loop because the `

Read the thread · 2026-08-18 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Cost gates so expensive providers stay explicit-only

Parent: #187

Current behavior

Any registered provider is equally callable. There is no way to keep an expensive or surprising engine (e.g. Parallel advanced, deep Exa) configured for explicit calls but out of auto / fan-out / failover.

Request

Per-provider auto_allow (default true for current cheap/known engines; false for new expensive ones):

Explicit provider: "parallel" still works when the key exists.
auto routing, failover, and optional all fan-out skip `auto_allow=

Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment

HTTP bearer auth and per-token rate limits for remote deploys

Parent: #187

Current behavior

Omnisearch is typically stdio. Remote HTTP deploys (Docker, Kubernetes, ToolHive) need an auth story and a way to stop one client from blasting every vendor key.

Request

When serving HTTP / Streamable HTTP off loopback:

Require static bearer tokens (AUTH_TOKENS), unique and nonblank.
Per-token sliding-window rate limit (hub default 120 req / minute).
Unauthenticated traffic shares one tight bucket or is rejected.
Keep /health (or equivalent) f

Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment

get_provider_info tool for non-secret provider metadata

Parent: #187

Current behavior

Clients discover providers by reading tool schemas or guessing env keys. There is no tool that lists configured, non-secret provider metadata at runtime.

Request

Add get_provider_info (or a resource) that returns, for each registered provider:

id, tools it serves (search / extract / ai / github)
tags / weight if routing exists
timeout, estimated cost
enabled / cooldown / last error type
no keys, no tokens, no raw secrets

Why

Agents and

Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Optional downstream MCP backends for official remotes

Parent: #187

Current behavior

Omnisearch talks to vendor HTTP APIs directly. It cannot treat an official remote MCP (Exa, Tavily, Firecrawl, Parallel, …) as a backend and only own planning / timeout / merge.

Request

Optional provider type: downstream MCP (transport URL or command + env), with:

mapped tool name
query / limit argument names
result_path and field aliases (title/url/snippet/score)
per-provider timeout and estimated cost
$ENV references for headers, no in

Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Provider benchmark command

Parent: #187

Current behavior

There is no built-in way to race configured providers on a fixed query suite and get a recommended priority order.

Request

A CLI or MCP tool that:

Runs a small fixed suite (docs, vendor release, community, non-English) against every configured search provider.
Reports success rate, median latency, result volume, simple quality (unique URLs, snippet coverage).
Prints a recommended provider priority and the exact config change to apply.
Does **not

Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Spam/mirror filter and domain diversity

Parent: #187

Current behavior

Result lists are passed through as the vendor ranked them. SEO scrapers, content mirrors, and 10 hits from one domain all stay in place.

Request

Optional quality layer (default can be conservative):

Drop known Stack Overflow / GitHub content mirrors and SEO scrapers (blocked_domains, overridable).
Cap results per registrable domain (e.g. max 2 keep position; overflow moves behind).
Exempt site: / include_domains queries so constrained searches

Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment

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