searxng-mcp

Inspect and edit the EMBEDDED SearXNG instance's settings.yml (the private, loopback-only, zero-config search fallback the searxng-mcp server can own end to end when no external SEARXNG_URL is configured). Use when the agent or operator wants to change what the embedded instance does — enable/ disable formats, flip privacy knobs (image_proxy, enable_metrics), route outgoing requests through a proxy, or diagnose why embedded mode isn't activating. Do NOT use this for an externally-configured instance (SEARXNG_URL set) — that instance's settings.yml lives on its own host and isn't managed by this server; use `searxng-web-search` for plain queries.

Privacy-respecting web metasearch via the searxng-mcp MCP server. Use when the agent needs current, open-web results for a query and must NOT leak the query to a single tracking engine — SearXNG aggregates many engines (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, …) behind one JSON tool. Use for general lookups, fact-finding, and pulling candidate source URLs to read next. Do NOT use for academic papers (use scholarx), for reading one already-known URL's full content (use web-fetch / web-crawler), or for keyless social/forum research (use pulselink-mcp).

Persist SearXNG search results into the epistemic-graph knowledge graph via the searxng-mcp MCP server. Use when the agent must turn a web search into durable, semantically-searchable KG memory — each result becomes a :Document (plus :SearchQuery and :SearchEngine typed nodes with :resultOf / :fromEngine links) so later reasoning can recall and cite it. Do NOT use for one-off reads you don't need to remember (use searxng-web-search) or to ingest a specific page's full text (use web-crawler).

Time-sensitive news and topic monitoring via the searxng-mcp MCP server. Use when the agent must gather what multiple news/social engines are currently reporting on a topic — breaking events, product/security announcements, or ongoing coverage — by scoping `web_search` to the `news`/`social_media` categories and paging for breadth. Do NOT use for evergreen reference facts (use searxng-web-search), academic sources (scholarx), or deep single-source reads (web-fetch).