mcp-searxng (vinas1/mcp-searxng) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 74 out of 100, grade C. It declares 4 tools. No publisher has claimed this listing.

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mcp-searxng

Privacy-respecting web search MCP server for AI assistants using SearXNG, with web search, URL reading, instance failover, and caching.

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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.
🔐
You'll be asked for 2 credentials: AUTH_PASSWORD, MCP_HTTP_AUTH_TOKEN
These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
🔐 secretAUTH_PASSWORD
configAUTH_USERNAME
configCACHE_MAX_ENTRIES
configCACHE_TTL_MS
configFETCH_TIMEOUT_MS
configHTTPS_PROXY
configHTTP_PROXY
configMCP_HTTP_ALLOWED_HOSTS
configMCP_HTTP_ALLOWED_ORIGINS
configMCP_HTTP_ALLOW_PRIVATE_URLS
🔐 secretMCP_HTTP_AUTH_TOKEN
configMCP_HTTP_EXPOSE_FULL_CONFIG
configMCP_HTTP_HARDEN
configMCP_HTTP_HOSTe MCP_HTTP_PORT=3000 -e =0.0.0.0 \
configMCP_HTTP_PORT3000 SEARXNG_URL=http://localhost:8080 mcp-searxng
configMCP_HTTP_STATELESS
configMCP_HTTP_TRUST_PROXY
configNO_PROXY
configSEARCH_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES
configSEARCH_CACHE_TTL_MS
configSEARCH_HTTPS_PROXY
configSEARCH_HTTP_PROXY
configSEARCH_USER_AGENT
configSEARXNG_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE
configSEARXNG_DEFAULT_RESPONSE_FORMATUse to select text or json when search calls omit response_format; explicit per-call values still win.
configSEARXNG_DEFAULT_SAFESEARCH
configSEARXNG_FANOUTInstance Failover & Fan-out: Configure interchangeable SearXNG replicas in SEARXNG_URL; searches fail over in order by default, or query all healthy replicas in parallel and merge results with .
configSEARXNG_HTML_FALLBACK"": "true"
configSEARXNG_LITE_TOOLSWith =true, the Lite schema stays query-only, but explicitly supplied optional overrides such as response_format and result_detail are still validated and honored.
configSEARXNG_MAX_RESULTSnum_results (number, optional): Maximum number of results to return, from 1 to 20. applies as an operator ceiling.
configSEARXNG_MAX_RESULT_CHARS
configSEARXNG_TIMEOUT_MS
configSEARXNG_URL"": "https://YOUR_SEARXNG_INSTANCE_URL"
configURL_READER_HTTPS_PROXY
configURL_READER_HTTP_PROXY
configURL_READER_USER_AGENT
configURL_READ_MAX_CHARS
configURL_READ_MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH_BYTESPDF input and extracted text are each capped at the lower of and 16 MiB. OCR is not supported, and scanned/image-only or password-protected PDFs return a short explanation.
confighttp_proxy
confighttps_proxy
configno_proxy
configsearch_http_proxy
configsearch_https_proxy
configurl_reader_http_proxy
configurl_reader_https_proxy
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Tool annotations

No tools have read-only/destructive annotations

Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.

All four hints declared on every tool

4/4 tools missing one or more hints — searxng_web_search (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); searxng_search_suggestions (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); searxng_instance_info (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +1 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

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commit: e543bcd568843b3bb88912e152ec731a8bccbb57
code hash: 376f6c8444150be72861c14ea9fe8d45f4231870e32e06c128e58b65d6973bb0
verified: 8/19/2026, 2:56:51 AM
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