Research

MCP servers and skills for in-depth web and document research: gathering, summarizing and preparing sources with citations.

Entries in this category

Published entries only. Guides are counted separately.

Total catalog entries
66
MCP servers
42
Skills
19
Guides
21
Workflows
1
Plugins
0
Harness components
0
AI assistants
4

Research MCP servers

Servers commonly used in this category.

AI Research Assistant

Official Free

Remote MCP server for scholarly search, author analysis, and citation networks with Semantic Scholar.

Hamid Vakilzadeh

28

GitHub

Agent News MCP Server

Official Free

Official Agent News MCP Server – verified real-time news and stats on the AI agent economy.

The Agent Times

Apify MCP Server

Official

Official Apify MCP for Actors, web-data extraction, and automation in an AI client.

Apify

8,755

GitHub

BCB SGS MCP Server

Free

Research Brazilian economic indicators, Focus expectations and PTAX exchange rates.

Sidney Bissoli

BLS Labor MCP Server

Free

Research US labor and price statistics through a community MCP server.

cyanheads

Brave Search MCP Server

Official Free

Official MCP server by Brave for web search, local places, videos, images, news, and AI summarization via Brave's independent index.

Brave Software, Inc.

1,432

GitHub

Bright Data MCP Server

Official

Official Bright Data MCP: web search, scraping, structured data extraction, and browser automation for AI agents.

Bright Data

2,660

GitHub

DC Hub — Power, Energy & Data Center Intelligence

Official Free

Remote MCP server for live data-center, power-grid, energy, and infrastructure intelligence.

DC Hub

2

GitHub

Data Fair MCP Server

Official Free

Discover, understand and analyze Data Fair datasets through targeted queries.

Koumoul

DataHub MCP Server

Official Free

Official MCP server for searching and inspecting DataHub metadata, lineage, and trust signals from an AI client.

Acryl Data

81

GitHub

EIA Energy MCP Server

Free

Explore US energy statistics through the EIA API and a community MCP server.

cyanheads

EmblemAI MCP

Official

Hosted EmblemAI MCP server for wallet, blockchain, NFT, market, and research workflows with explicitly separated transaction access.

EmblemAI

12

GitHub

Exa MCP Server

Official

Official hosted Exa MCP for web search, webpage fetching, and optional multi-step research in an AI client.

Exa

5,055

GitHub

Ferryhopper

Official

Remote MCP server from Ferryhopper for ferry ports, connections, trip discovery, and a safer booking handoff.

Ferryhopper

Fetch MCP

Official Free

Official MCP reference server for fetching and converting web content to markdown.

Model Context Protocol

Firecrawl MCP Server

Official Free

Official Firecrawl MCP server for web scraping, web search, multi-page crawling, document parsing, and recurring page monitoring.

Firecrawl

7,525

GitHub

Gondola MCP Server

Official Free

Official remote MCP server for travel, hotel, flight, and rental-car search with cash-versus-points comparison.

Gondola

Hugging Face MCP Server

Official Free

Official Hugging Face MCP server that lets AI assistants search Hub models, datasets, papers, and Spaces, and use community tools.

Hugging Face

300

GitHub

IBGE Brasil MCP

Official Free

Remote MCP server from Sidney Bissoli for live, citable data from Brazil’s official statistics and geography institute IBGE.

Sidney Bissoli

9

GitHub

IMF MCP Server

Free

Explore IMF macroeconomic data through an independent community server.

cyanheads

Jina AI MCP Server

Official

Jina AI official remote MCP endpoint for web search, reading, embeddings, reranking, and source-grounded work.

Jina AI

845

GitHub

KPI Depot MCP Server

Official Free

Research KPI definitions, formulas and access-dependent benchmarks from an AI client.

KPI Depot

Keenable Web Search

Official Free

Keenable remote MCP server for ranked web search and clean page-content retrieval.

Keenable

Listen to Sadhu

Official Free

Vedic scripture and recorded lectures via MCP

Mapbox MCP Server

Official Free

Official Mapbox MCP server: geocoding, routing, travel-time zones, and map images directly in your AI client.

Mapbox

357

GitHub

Medical Terminologies MCP

Official Free

Remote MCP server from Sidney Bissoli for documented search and mapping across medical terminologies.

Sidney Bissoli

12

GitHub

Menjometre MCP Server

Official Free

Read-only MCP server for open data on grants, contracts, and public transparency in Catalonia.

Feeder LLC

Niche

Official

Remote MCP server from SailQuery for signal research, story angles, brand voice, and platform-native content workflows.

SailQuery

OurAirports MCP Server

Free

Look up airport codes and geographic reference data from a bundled OurAirports dataset.

cyanheads

Perplexity MCP Server

Official

Official Perplexity MCP for current web search, research, and reasoning in an AI client.

Perplexity AI, Inc.

2,544

GitHub

Pick an Agency MCP Server

Official Free

Search marketing agencies and build a reasoned shortlist from directory data.

Pick an Agency

PubMed MCP Server

Official Free

Remote MCP server from Casey Hand for searching, reviewing, and citing biomedical literature.

Casey Hand

148

GitHub

Qdrant MCP Server

Official Free

Official MCP server that stores information in Qdrant and retrieves it through semantic search.

Qdrant

1,539

GitHub

SAP MCP Server

Official

OOBE Protocol hosted SAP MCP server for Synapse Agent Protocol, Solana, identity, payment, and transaction tools.

OOBE Protocol

3

GitHub

Socialcrawl MCP Server

Official Free

Official MCP server for SocialCrawl data from social media, reviews, trends, search, and web research.

SocialCrawl

24

GitHub

SparkForge MCP Server

Official Free

Remote MCP server for utility APIs covering media, documents, web, development, and crypto research.

SparkForge

Tavily MCP Server

Official

Official Tavily MCP server for web search, extraction, website mapping, and crawling directly in a connected AI client of choice.

Tavily

2,411

GitHub

URL Safety Validator MCP

Official Free

Remote MCP server for checking untrusted URLs before fetching, visiting, or forwarding them.

Kord Agencies

1

GitHub

Zipp

Official Free

Official hosted MCP server for multilingual crypto news with editorial signals and source attribution.

Deficlow

1

GitHub

cityparity MCP Server

Official Free

Remote MCP server from cityparity for transparent city, relocation, and cost-of-living comparisons.

Skyler Bissell

2

GitHub

lahend MCP Server

Official Free

Free MCP server for Estonian case law: full-text search of court decisions and legislation, linked to the business register.

lahend

nimistuMCP

Official Free

Official read-only MCP server from nimistu.ee for traceable Estonian business and register data.

Nimistu MTÜ

1

GitHub