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Argus Retrieval

io.github.Khamel83/argus·v1.5.0·Search
Quality Score
90
/100

Multi-provider search broker for AI agents: 14 providers, 12-step extraction, retrieval workflows.

§01  Install
Claude Desktop (uvx)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "argus": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "argus-search"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ARGUS_WOLFRAM_API_KEY": "<your-argus_wolfram_api_key>",
        "ARGUS_BRAVE_API_KEY": "<your-argus_brave_api_key>",
        "ARGUS_TAVILY_API_KEY": "<your-argus_tavily_api_key>",
        "ARGUS_EXA_API_KEY": "<your-argus_exa_api_key>",
        "ARGUS_SERPER_API_KEY": "<your-argus_serper_api_key>",
        "ARGUS_LINKUP_API_KEY": "<your-argus_linkup_api_key>",
        "ARGUS_SEARXNG_BASE_URL": "<argus_searxng_base_url>",
        "ARGUS_DATA_ROOT": "<argus_data_root>"
      }
    }
  }
}
§02  Environment variables
ARGUS_WOLFRAM_API_KEY
secret

WolframAlpha App ID (2,000 free computed-answer queries/month)

ARGUS_BRAVE_API_KEY
secret

Brave Search API key (2,000 free queries/month)

ARGUS_TAVILY_API_KEY
secret

Tavily API key (1,000 free queries/month)

ARGUS_EXA_API_KEY
secret

Exa API key (1,000 free queries/month)

ARGUS_SERPER_API_KEY
secret

Serper API key (2,500 one-time free queries)

ARGUS_LINKUP_API_KEY
secret

Linkup API key (1,000 free queries/month)

ARGUS_SEARXNG_BASE_URL

SearXNG instance URL (self-hosted, aggregates 70+ engines)

ARGUS_DATA_ROOT

Optional override for the writable Argus runtime corpus root

§03  MCP Quality Score  ·  methodology
freshness
25
completeness
15
installability
25
documentation
15
stability
10
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