Kagi MCP Server

An MCP server backed by the Kagi API. It exposes search and extraction tools to MCP-compatible clients.

Tools

• kagi_search_fetch - web, news, videos, podcasts, and image search with optional page extracts, filters, and Kagi lenses.
• kagi_extract - fetch a page's full content as markdown.

Note: The previous kagi_fastgpt and kagi_summarizer tools have been removed. Both are planned to return in a future release.

Hosted Server

We run a hosted MCP server at https://mcp.kagi.com/mcp — no install required. Point any HTTP-capable MCP client at it and authenticate with your Kagi API key.

OAuth2 isn't supported yet (it's on our roadmap), so for now grab your API key from the dashboard and pass it via Bearer HTTP authentication.

Example with Claude Code:

claude mcp add kagi https://mcp.kagi.com/mcp --transport http --header "Authorization: Bearer $(read -sp 'API key: ' k; echo $k)" --scope user

Prefer to run it yourself? See Client Setup for the local uvx install, or Self-Hosting to host the HTTP server on your own infrastructure.

Requirements

• A Kagi API key in KAGI_API_KEY.
• uv for the recommended uvx install path.

Install uv:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Windows:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

Client Setup

Codex CLI

codex mcp add kagi --env KAGI_API_KEY=<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> -- uvx kagimcp

Codex writes MCP configuration to ~/.codex/config.toml.

Claude Desktop

Install uv first.

MacOS/Linux:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Windows:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

Then in your Claude Desktop config (found through Settings -> Developer -> Edit Config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kagi": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["kagimcp"],
      "env": {
        "KAGI_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add kagi -e KAGI_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" -- uvx kagimcp

Smithery

npx -y @smithery/cli install kagimcp --client claude

Kiro

Add to your Kiro MCP config file (~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json for global, or .kiro/settings/mcp.json for project-scoped) using the same mcpServers JSON as Claude Desktop. See the Kiro MCP documentation for more details.

OpenCode

Edit the OpenCode configuration file in ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json and add the following:

{
  "mcp": {
    "kagi": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": ["uvx", "kagimcp"],
      "enabled": true,
      "environment": {
        "KAGI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Usage Examples

• Search: Who was Time's 2024 person of the year?
• Extract: extract the full content of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_Context_Protocol

Configuration

Hideable search params:

workflow, extract_count, limit, include_domains, exclude_domains, time_relative, after, before, file_type, lens_id

Example:

KAGI_HIDDEN_PARAMS="extract_count,after,before,time_relative,include_domains,exclude_domains"

Local Development

git clone https://github.com/kagisear

... [View full README on GitHub](https://github.com/kagisearch/kagimcp#readme)