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Anthropic's official Claude AI desktop application. Supports MCP servers to extend functionality.
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riii111/researchmcp
A research tool that combines the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Brave Search, Tavily Search, etc. to achieve research capabilities equivalent to (or aiming to be equivalent to) ChatGPT's DeepResearch.
{
"mcpServers": {
"MCPSearch": {
"command": "/absolute/path/to/ResearchMCP/cli.ts",
"env": {
"BRAVE_API_KEY": "<BRAVE_API_KEY>",
"TAVILY_API_KEY": "<TAVILY_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}BRAVE_API_KEYTAVILY_API_KEYWeb Search: Search the web using Brave Search API through Claude Desktop
MCP Protocol: Full compliance with the Model Context Protocol
Caching: Search results are cached to improve performance and reduce API calls
Details on this page are taken from the project's README. Open README
Clients mentioned in this server's README:

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