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DimensionSearXNG Mul MCPMulti-query parallel MCP server for SearXNG metasearchMartinLoop MCP ServerAn independent control layer that gives AI coding agents budgets, brakes, and receipts
FMRS54 / 100 · D79 / 100 · B
Reliability8 / 2012 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2018 / 20
Maintenance9 / 2016 / 20
Documentation13 / 2018 / 20
Setup experience12 / 2015 / 20
Best for
  • Developers building MCP clients or AI applications that need search functionality
  • Use cases requiring simultaneous queries of multiple search terms
  • Users wanting to use a custom or public SearXNG instance
  • Engineering teams scaling AI coding agents while controlling spend
  • Platform teams that need auditable, rollback-aware agent execution records
  • Organizations using multiple agents (Claude, Codex, Gemini) under one governed flow
Not for
  • Scenarios requiring browser automation or dynamic rendering of results
  • Production environments needing official support or commercial guarantees
  • Users with strict requirements for search API stability and maintenance
  • Developers who just want a simple code-completion helper without run governance
  • Teams unwilling to accept local JSONL run records with HMAC signing
  • Environments without a supported adapter (Claude/Codex/Gemini CLIs, direct provider, or verifier-only)
Required permissions
  • Access to SearXNG API, requiring a valid SEARXNG_URL
  • USERNAME and PASSWORD if SearXNG uses Basic Auth
  • Network access to communicate with the SearXNG server
  • Read/write access to the configured repo root (writable scope restrictable via --allow-path/--deny-path)
  • Ability to invoke the chosen agent CLI (Claude/Codex/Gemini, etc.) and its underlying model account
  • Local disk writes for run records, receipts, and share outputs (share/run-receipt., etc.)
  • Execution of user-configured verifier commands (e.g. npm test)
Risks and side effects
  • Dependency on external SearXNG service, may be affected by network or service availability
  • No official support, with no guarantee of security or stability
  • Privacy risks when using public SearXNG instances, as queries may be logged
  • Verifier commands are executed; poorly chosen verifier commands carry security risk despite preflight policy checks
  • Cost and token figures may be estimates (labeled with provenance) and should not be treated as settled accounting
  • Receipt integrity must be verified before use as trustworthy evidence; missing rollback evidence is flagged as EVIDENCE_BOUNDARY
  • Policy defaults come from martin.config.yaml and can be overridden by CLI flags; misconfiguration can loosen safety boundaries
Supported clientsClaude DesktopClaude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Continue
Tools10