pminervini/deep-research-mcp
MITAPI key required🐍 ☁️ 🏠 - Deep research MCP server for OpenAI Responses API or Open Deep Research (smolagents), with web search and code interpreter support.
Install
npx -y pminervini-deep-research-mcpRequired environment variables
YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEYSet in your MCP configOPENAI_API_KEYSet in your MCP configYOUR_GEMINI_API_KEYSet in your MCP configGEMINI_API_KEYSet in your MCP configGOOGLE_API_KEYSet in your MCP configRESEARCH_API_KEYSet in your MCP configDR_TULU_API_KEYSet in your MCP configSERPER_API_KEYSet in your MCP configJINA_API_KEYSet in your MCP configS2_API_KEYSet in your MCP configclaude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"pminervini-deep-research-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"pminervini-deep-research-mcp"
],
"env": {
"YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY>",
"OPENAI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY>",
"YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY>",
"GEMINI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY>",
"GOOGLE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY>",
"RESEARCH_API_KEY": "<YOUR_RESEARCH_API_KEY>",
"DR_TULU_API_KEY": "<YOUR_DR_TULU_API_KEY>",
"SERPER_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SERPER_API_KEY>",
"JINA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_JINA_API_KEY>",
"S2_API_KEY": "<YOUR_S2_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Add this to your Claude Desktop config file. Find it at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS.
What this does
pminervini/deep-research-mcp exposes a set of tools to Claude over the Model Context Protocol. After you add it to claude_desktop_config.json (snippet above) and restart Claude Desktop, those tools become callable inside any conversation. That makes it useful when you want Claude to reach into search engines and knowledge bases without copy-pasting context every turn.
Requirements
This server needs the following environment variables to be set before it can run:
YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY OPENAI_API_KEY YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY GEMINI_API_KEY GOOGLE_API_KEY RESEARCH_API_KEY DR_TULU_API_KEY SERPER_API_KEY JINA_API_KEY S2_API_KEY
Set these via the env object in your MCP config (see claude_desktop_config.json snippet above).
Common use cases
- •Search the open web, internal docs, or a vector store from inside a Claude session
- •Bring fresh information past Claude's training cutoff into context
- •Run multi-source research without copy-pasting URLs and snippets
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