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title: "free-search"
description: "Local-first web search, page fetching and document reading with no API key and no signup. Ships 11 MCP tools, a source-verification skill and a quick-search agent."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/free-search
last-updated: 2026-10-21
---

# free-search
Local-first web search, page fetching and document reading with no API key and no signup. Ships 11 MCP tools, a source-verification skill and a quick-search agent.
- Slug: free-search
- Publisher: ymylive
- Repository: https://github.com/sweetcornna/free-search-mcp
- Manifest: plugins/free-search/plugin.json
- Version: 0.15.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 1 (verified-research)
- MCP servers: 1 (search)
- Stars: 154
- Repository created: 2026-04-24
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-21
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/free-search
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What free-search does, in the publisher's words

This plugin is the recommended way to install free-search-mcp. One /plugin install gives Claude Code web search, page fetching and document reading with no API key, no signup and no manual claude mcp add. It contains 11 MCP tools, a source-verification skill and a small quick-search agent.

Codex reads the same marketplace, starts the same MCP server, and lists the skill as free-search:verified-research (checked with Codex CLI 0.154). The agent file here is in Claude Code's format, and codex/agents/quick_search.toml holds the same agent in Codex's:

If ~/.codex/config.toml already has a [mcp_servers.search] entry, it silently shadows the plugin's server of the same name. Run codex mcp remove search first.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sweetcornna/free-search-mcp/HEAD/plugins/free-search/README.md

## Skills

- verified-research: Use with the free-search MCP tools whenever a web lookup must yield facts someone will rely on: dates, deadlines, prices, prizes, fees, rules, eligibility, schedules, versions, statistics, news, or anything that may have changed. Search results only locate sources; this workflow opens the official…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.

## MCP servers

- search: transport: stdio; command: uvx free-search-mcp==0.13.1

Read from the plugin's own mcp.json. Environment variable names only, never values.