RivalSearchBLOCK
Deterministic research MCP server on FastMCP 3 — 5-engine web search, 9-platform social search, 6 academic DBs, news aggregation, entity profiles, conflict detection, document analysis. No API keys. No in-server LLM. Structured outputs for agent chaining.
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
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Deterministic research MCP server — web + social + academic + news + code + docs, all in one place. No API keys, no in-server LLM, structured outputs for agent chaining.
🆓 100% Free & Open Source — No API keys or subscriptions for core tools. The hosted server includes fair-use rate limiting.
What It Does
RivalSearchMCP is a FastMCP 3.x server exposing 9 specialized tools that search, fetch, score, and compare information across:
- 5 web search engines (DuckDuckGo, Bing, Yahoo, Mojeek, Wikipedia) — concurrent, deduplicated, with TLS-fingerprint-safe fetches via Scrapling
- 9 social platforms (Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Overflow, Dev.to, Medium, Product Hunt, Bluesky, Lobste.rs, Lemmy) — no authentication
- 5 news sources (Google News, Bing News, The Guardian, GDELT, DuckDuckGo News) — with time-range filtering
- 5 academic databases (OpenAlex, CrossRef, arXiv, PubMed, Europe PMC) + 4 dataset hubs (Kaggle, HuggingFace, Dataverse
554652d373c2OBSERVED · 2026-10-07Connect
Built from this server's own package name, version and transport as found in its source — not copied from anyone's documentation, so it cannot drift against a page we do not control.
claude mcp add rivalsearchmcp -- uvx rivalsearchmcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"rivalsearchmcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"rivalsearchmcp"
]
}
}
}Exposed tools (5)
5 read · 0 write · 0 destructive.
| Tool | Risk | Description |
|---|---|---|
document_analysis | read | |
github_search | read | |
map_website | read | |
news_aggregation | read | |
social_search | read |
Trust audit
BLOCKgrade D · trust 69/100 Do not install this without reading the findings. The audit found something that could harm you or your machine.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | PASS |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | FAIL |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | PASS |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- none-observed
- Network
- declared (5 observation(s))
- Shell
- declared (2 observation(s))
- Dependencies
- pinned
- Secrets in source
- none-found
Findings (11)
"eval(","exec(",.pre-commit-config.yaml
safe_key = hashlib.md5(key.encode(), usedforsecurity=False).hexdigest()
return hashlib.md5(key_string.encode()).hexdigest()[:16]
return hashlib.md5(key_str.encode()).hexdigest()
# Serve locally at http://127.0.0.1:8000
<code>http://127.0.0.1:8765/browser_client.html</code>.
content = base64.b64decode(data.get("content", "")).decode("utf-8")> 🆓 **100% Free & Open Source** — No API keys or subscriptions for core tools. The hosted server includes fair-use rate limiting.
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.
554652d373c2full audit observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/damionrashford__rivalsearch.json · Report an issue / request a re-scanAudit history
Every audit this server has had. A grade with a past is a grade somebody is still checking.
| Date | Source | Verdict | Grade | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | 554652d373c2 | BLOCK | D | 69 | first audit |
Questions
What is the RivalSearch MCP server?
Deterministic research MCP server on FastMCP 3 — 5-engine web search, 9-platform social search, 6 academic DBs, news aggregation, entity profiles, conflict detection, document analysis. No API keys. No in-server LLM. Structured outputs for agent chaining.
What tools does RivalSearch expose?
5 in total: 5 read-only, 0 that write, and 0 that can delete or overwrite. Every one is listed on this page with its risk.
Is RivalSearch safe to connect to an agent?
No — not without reading the findings first. The audit graded it D (69/100) and found 2 critical or high issues in the source. Each one is listed on this page with the file and line it is on.
What credentials does RivalSearch need?
No credential environment variables were found in its source, so it appears to need none.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (554652d373c2), read on 2026-10-07. The repository is watched and re-audited when it changes.