openresearch-mcp

Zero-auth multi-source research MCP server that enables web search, reading URLs, PDFs, GitHub repos, and querying Hacker News, Stack Overflow, Semantic Scholar, and YouTube transcripts without API keys.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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You'll be asked for 2 credentials: STACKEXCHANGE_KEY, GITHUB_TOKEN

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configMCP_TRANSPORT

configMCP_HOST

configMCP_PORT

🔐 secretSTACKEXCHANGE_KEY— search_stackoverflow Stack Overflow API Set for higher quota

configOPENALEX_EMAIL— search_openalex OpenAlex 250M+ works, zero rate limiting; set for polite pool

🔐 secretGITHUB_TOKEN— read_repo GitHub public repos README + file tree + key docs; set for 5k req/hr

// full audit trail

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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

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commit: e7473b05838b047cb2f34e0c7a0704d02437da4d

code hash: cdd96b11f88e11d2f4479fae64c65a2c29d950452c73c839620ae1ac1a097cbc

verified: 6/23/2026, 10:14:13 AM

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