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Deep Research MCP Server

by Jessica Doering
Search & WebModerate7.0Local
Free

Perform comprehensive web research using Tavily's Search and Crawl APIs.

About

A server designed for comprehensive web research. It uses Tavily's Search and Crawl APIs to gather detailed information on a given topic, then structures this data in a format perfect for LLMs to create high-quality markdown documents.

The following options are configurable:

"env": { "TAVILY_API_KEY": "tvly-YOUR_ACTUAL_API_KEY_HERE", // Required "DOCUMENTATION_PROMPT": "Your custom, detailed instructions for the LLM on how to generate markdown documents from the research data...", // Optional - if not provided, the default prompt will be used "SEARCH_TIMEOUT": "120", // Optional - timeout in seconds for search requests (default: 60) "CRAWL_TIMEOUT": "300", // Optional - timeout in seconds for crawl requests (default: 180) "MAX_SEARCH_RESULTS": "10", // Optional - maximum search results to retrieve (default: 7) "CRAWL_MAX_DEPTH": "2", // Optional - maximum crawl depth (default: 1) "CRAWL_LIMIT": "15", // Optional - maximum URLs to crawl per source (default: 10) "FILE_WRITE_ENABLED": "true", // Optional - enable file writing capability (default: false) "ALLOWED_WRITE_PATHS": "/home/user/research,/home/user/documents", // Optional - comma-separated allowed directories (default: user home directory) "FILE_WRITE_LINE_LIMIT": "300" // Optional - maximum lines per file write operation (default: 200)

Security Report

7.0
Moderate7.0Low Risk

Valid MCP server (2 strong, 3 medium validity signals). 3 known CVEs in dependencies (0 critical, 3 high severity) Package registry verified. Imported from the Official MCP Registry.

3 files analyzed · 4 issues found

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What You'll Need

Set these up before or after installing:

Tavily API key for web search and crawlRequired

Environment variable: TAVILY_API_KEY

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How to Install

Add this to your MCP configuration file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "deep-research": {
      "env": {
        "TAVILY_API_KEY": "your-tavily-api-key-here"
      },
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pinkpixel/deep-research-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

Getting Started

Once installed, try these example prompts and explore these capabilities:

  • 1Example of a prompt and configuration for a tool call:
  • 2{
  • 3"name": "deep-research-tool",
  • 4"arguments": {
  • 5"query": "Explain the architecture of modern data lakes and data lakehouses.",
  • 6"max_search_results": 5,
  • 7"search_depth": "advanced",
  • 8"topic": "general",
  • 9"crawl_max_depth": 1,
  • 10"crawl_extract_depth": "advanced",
  • 11"include_answer": true,
  • 12"documentation_prompt": "Generate a highly technical whitepaper. Start with an abstract, then introduction, detailed sections for data lakes, data lakehouses, comparison, use cases, and a future outlook. Use academic tone. Include all diagrams mentioned by URL if possible as [Diagram: URL].",
  • 13"output_path": "C:/Users/username/Documents/research/datalakes-whitepaper"
  • 14}
  • 15}

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