io.github.HarimxChoi/google-surf-mcp

io.github.HarimxChoi/google-surf-mcpv1.1.3Search

Web, academic and code search with graph RAG, data lineage, ontology and cross-project schema links.

The current version, v1.1.3, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-10. It is distributed as google-surf-mcp on npm, filed under Search by this index, and declares 29 environment variables. Removals and unreachable sources are measured across every server this index tracks, contract drift across the servers that answer in consecutive snapshots; the index's current counts put this record in context.

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Trust verdict · v1 advisory · method

REVIEWstatus: PARTIALfresh until 2026-09-28 16:06 UTC

screened 2026-08-29tier: scannedgranularity: description-levelsource: registry

Semantic screen found no manipulation pattern in the description. Conformance probe not yet run.

mcpindex.integrity.descriptionpassINFO

evidence“Normal capability description”via static_description

Limits of this verdict

- Semantic screen only - the deterministic conformance probe has not run on this server
- Confidence is reported but not yet calibrated (v1)
- Screen reads the tool description, not the live behavior
- advisory
- registry description only no input schema
- screen model 8b
- The registry listing (version, packages, links) changed after this screen ran - the description we assessed did not

Semantic screen: an LLM judge reads the tool description for hidden instructions (status PARTIAL). A pass means the description is not lying, not that the tool is safe: a high-capability tool with an honest description still warrants caution. The deterministic conformance probe has not been run on this server yet, so the screen here is semantic-only. Posture: advisory. Confidences are reported but not yet calibrated (calibrated=false at v1). Full verdict history is not shown on this page.

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That verdict was true at screening time (snapshot 2026-09-14).

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Environment variables

SEARCH_API

secret

SearchApi API key. Required only for SearchApi primary or fallback modes.

SURF_SEARCH_PROVIDER

Provider for search and search_parallel: browser, searchapi, or fallback. Defaults to browser.

SURF_SCHOLAR_PROVIDER

Provider for scholar_search: browser, searchapi, or fallback. Defaults to browser.

SURF_BROWSER_ENGINE

Browser engine: auto, native, or playwright. Auto uses one hidden native Chrome broker shared across local MCP sessions.

CHROME_PATH

Absolute path to the Chrome binary. Auto-detected on Windows/macOS/Linux when omitted.

SURF_PROFILE_ROOT

Directory for the warm Chrome profile. Defaults to ~/.google-surf-mcp.

SURF_RESEARCH

Enable local project memory and hybrid retrieval. Defaults to true.

SURF_RETRIEVAL_MODE

Shared route for search and search_parallel: live or hybrid. Defaults to hybrid.

SURF_RESEARCH_ROOT

Embedded SurrealDB data directory. Defaults to <profile>/research.

SURF_RESEARCH_VECTOR_MODEL

Local model for HNSW retrieval and shared reranking. Defaults to Xenova/multilingual-e5-small; use off to disable.

SURF_RESEARCH_VECTOR_LOW_MEMORY

Disable ONNX CPU memory arena and memory pattern. Defaults to true.

SURF_RESEARCH_VECTOR_THREADS

ONNX intra-op thread count from 1 to 16. Defaults to 4.

SURF_RESEARCH_REPO_AUTO

Sparse-index at most one eligible small GitHub repository per search call. Defaults to true.

SURF_RESEARCH_REPO_AUTO_MAX_MB

Maximum searchable repository source-text size in MB. Assets are excluded. Defaults to 20.

SURF_RESEARCH_REPO_AUTO_MAX_FILES

Maximum repository source file count for automatic indexing. Defaults to 2000.

SURF_RESEARCH_BROKER_IDLE_MS

Shared research broker idle lifetime in milliseconds. Defaults to 60000.

SURF_RESEARCH_READ_CONCURRENCY

Maximum concurrent research broker reads. Defaults to 4.

SURF_RESEARCH_QUERY_TIMEOUT_MS

Timeout per embedded SurrealDB query in milliseconds. Defaults to 120000; timed-out retrieval lanes are reported as partial.

GITHUB_TOKEN

secret

Optional token that raises GitHub API limits for repository inspection.

SURF_LOCALE

Browser locale, e.g. en-US.

SURF_TZ

IANA timezone, e.g. America/New_York. Defaults to system timezone.

SURF_HEADLESS

Controls Playwright extraction, compatibility, and recovery paths. Native search hides normal system Chrome and shows it only for CAPTCHA recovery.

SURF_IDLE_CLOSE_MS

Idle ms before closing the sequential ctx and pool. 0 disables idle auto-close. Defaults to 30000.

SURF_ALLOW_PRIVATE

Set to 'true' to allow extract on private/loopback addresses (localhost, 10.x, 192.168.x, 169.254.x, etc). Default blocks them as an SSRF guard.

SURF_LLM_HEAL

Enable the optional workflow-only LLM selector repair path. Defaults to false.

SURF_LLM_PROVIDER

LLM selector repair provider: anthropic or orcarouter. Defaults to anthropic.

SURF_LLM_MODEL

Optional model override. OrcaRouter defaults to orcarouter/auto.

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

secret

Anthropic API key for optional LLM-assisted selector repair.

ORCAROUTER_API_KEY

secret

OrcaRouter API key for optional LLM-assisted selector repair.

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Install this server

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-surf-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "--",
        "google-surf-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARCH_API": "<your-search_api>",
        "SURF_SEARCH_PROVIDER": "<surf_search_provider>",
        "SURF_SCHOLAR_PROVIDER": "<surf_scholar_provider>",
        "SURF_BROWSER_ENGINE": "<surf_browser_engine>",
        "CHROME_PATH": "<chrome_path>",
        "SURF_PROFILE_ROOT": "<surf_profile_root>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH": "<surf_research>",
        "SURF_RETRIEVAL_MODE": "<surf_retrieval_mode>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_ROOT": "<surf_research_root>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_VECTOR_MODEL": "<surf_research_vector_model>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_VECTOR_LOW_MEMORY": "<surf_research_vector_low_memory>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_VECTOR_THREADS": "<surf_research_vector_threads>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_REPO_AUTO": "<surf_research_repo_auto>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_REPO_AUTO_MAX_MB": "<surf_research_repo_auto_max_mb>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_REPO_AUTO_MAX_FILES": "<surf_research_repo_auto_max_files>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_BROKER_IDLE_MS": "<surf_research_broker_idle_ms>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_READ_CONCURRENCY": "<surf_research_read_concurrency>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_QUERY_TIMEOUT_MS": "<surf_research_query_timeout_ms>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<your-github_token>",
        "SURF_LOCALE": "<surf_locale>",
        "SURF_TZ": "<surf_tz>",
        "SURF_HEADLESS": "<surf_headless>",
        "SURF_IDLE_CLOSE_MS": "<surf_idle_close_ms>",
        "SURF_ALLOW_PRIVATE": "<surf_allow_private>",
        "SURF_LLM_HEAL": "<surf_llm_heal>",
        "SURF_LLM_PROVIDER": "<surf_llm_provider>",
        "SURF_LLM_MODEL": "<surf_llm_model>",
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<your-anthropic_api_key>",
        "ORCAROUTER_API_KEY": "<your-orcarouter_api_key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-surf-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "--",
        "google-surf-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SEARCH_API": "<your-search_api>",
        "SURF_SEARCH_PROVIDER": "<surf_search_provider>",
        "SURF_SCHOLAR_PROVIDER": "<surf_scholar_provider>",
        "SURF_BROWSER_ENGINE": "<surf_browser_engine>",
        "CHROME_PATH": "<chrome_path>",
        "SURF_PROFILE_ROOT": "<surf_profile_root>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH": "<surf_research>",
        "SURF_RETRIEVAL_MODE": "<surf_retrieval_mode>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_ROOT": "<surf_research_root>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_VECTOR_MODEL": "<surf_research_vector_model>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_VECTOR_LOW_MEMORY": "<surf_research_vector_low_memory>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_VECTOR_THREADS": "<surf_research_vector_threads>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_REPO_AUTO": "<surf_research_repo_auto>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_REPO_AUTO_MAX_MB": "<surf_research_repo_auto_max_mb>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_REPO_AUTO_MAX_FILES": "<surf_research_repo_auto_max_files>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_BROKER_IDLE_MS": "<surf_research_broker_idle_ms>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_READ_CONCURRENCY": "<surf_research_read_concurrency>",
        "SURF_RESEARCH_QUERY_TIMEOUT_MS": "<surf_research_query_timeout_ms>",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "<your-github_token>",
        "SURF_LOCALE": "<surf_locale>",
        "SURF_TZ": "<surf_tz>",
        "SURF_HEADLESS": "<surf_headless>",
        "SURF_IDLE_CLOSE_MS": "<surf_idle_close_ms>",
        "SURF_ALLOW_PRIVATE": "<surf_allow_private>",
        "SURF_LLM_HEAL": "<surf_llm_heal>",
        "SURF_LLM_PROVIDER": "<surf_llm_provider>",
        "SURF_LLM_MODEL": "<surf_llm_model>",
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<your-anthropic_api_key>",
        "ORCAROUTER_API_KEY": "<your-orcarouter_api_key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline (cline_mcp_settings.json)

npx -y -- google-surf-mcp

Claude Code (claude mcp add)

claude mcp add --scope user google-surf-mcp -- npx -y -- google-surf-mcp

Gemini CLI (gemini mcp add)

gemini mcp add -s user google-surf-mcp npx -y -- google-surf-mcp

Verdict API

curl -s mcpindex.ai/api/v1/trust/server/io-github-harimxchoi-google-surf-mcp

Free-tier verdict as JSON: decision + dimensions + severity. Call it from your agent before it invokes a tool it just discovered.

Details

version: v1.1.3
category: Search
verdict expires: 2026-09-28
quality: 85 / 100
operator: HarimxChoi

Listing

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Provenance

Each verdict is bound to a hash of the exact description it judged, so a re-crawl that changes the text produces a new record rather than silently inheriting this one. Verdict history is hash-chained and anchored to Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps (latest confirmed at block 966,775). Verify it yourself.

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