# Agent Web Search (pypi · agent-web-search-mcp)

Provider-neutral web_search for AI agents. Grounding + agent search APIs, keyless defaults.

- Trust score: 73/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-20

## Components

- pypi · `agent-web-search-mcp`: 73/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/jerryliu369-agent-web-search/agent-web-search-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/jerryliu369-agent-web-search/agent-web-search-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `agent-web-search-mcp`
- Version: `0.7.5`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-09-20.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs setuptools.build_meta at install time, a recognised native-build step with no shell scripting around it.
  - 1 of 32 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 32/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - License check failed: no license is declared.
  - Actively maintained (last published 14 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 69/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 151 tokens (~151/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 47/100
  - Stability observed for 14 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 1 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 1 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Agent Web Search MCP server?

Agent Web Search runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx agent-web-search-mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add jerryliu369-agent-web-search -- uvx agent-web-search-mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jerryliu369-agent-web-search": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "agent-web-search-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "jerryliu369-agent-web-search": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "agent-web-search-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add jerryliu369-agent-web-search -- uvx agent-web-search-mcp
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "jerryliu369-agent-web-search": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "agent-web-search-mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add jerryliu369-agent-web-search --command uvx --arg agent-web-search-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  jerryliu369-agent-web-search:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["agent-web-search-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "jerryliu369-agent-web-search": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "agent-web-search-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add jerryliu369-agent-web-search -t stdio -c uvx -a agent-web-search-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jerryliu369-agent-web-search": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "agent-web-search-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-09-19 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 40 to 43. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 12 days of observed history at the previous scan, 13 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-17 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-14 (score 71, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-13 (score 70, +3)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.23

### 2026-09-07 (score 67, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-09-06 (score 52)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `web_search` (~151 tokens)

Search the web through multiple providers. Enabled providers: DuckDuckGo web search; Exa web search; Parallel LLM-optimized web search. Use a complete natural-language question. Failed providers are omitted from successful responses. If every enabled provider fails, the call returns a tool error with code all_providers_failed and per-provider diagnostics.

Input parameters:

- `max_results` (integer): Desired maximum number of results. Providers enforce this natively or as a best-effort prompt constraint.
- `providers` (array): Optional subset of the providers enabled at startup.
- `query` (string, required): A complete natural-language search question.
- `time_range` (string): Optional time filter: past day, week, month, or year.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jerryliu369-agent-web-search/agent-web-search-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-20: 73
- 2026-09-19: 73
- 2026-09-18: 72
- 2026-09-17: 72
- 2026-09-16: 71
- 2026-09-15: 71
- 2026-09-14: 71
- 2026-09-13: 70
- 2026-09-12: 67
- 2026-09-11: 67
- 2026-09-10: 67
- 2026-09-09: 67
- 2026-09-08: 67
- 2026-09-07: 67
- 2026-09-06: 52

## Common questions

### What is the Agent Web Search MCP server?

Agent Web Search is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.JerryLiu369/agent-web-search. Provider-neutral web_search for AI agents. Grounding + agent search APIs, keyless defaults. This page covers its PyPI package (agent-web-search-mcp).

### Is the Agent Web Search MCP server safe to use?

Agent Web Search scores 73 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 20 September 2026. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Agent Web Search MCP server expose?

Agent Web Search exposes 1 tool: web_search. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 151 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Agent Web Search MCP server still maintained?

Agent Web Search is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 20 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/agent-web-search-mcp/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/agent-web-search-mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/JerryLiu369/agent-web-search
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jerryliu369-agent-web-search/agent-web-search-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jerryliu369-agent-web-search/agent-web-search-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jerryliu369-agent-web-search/agent-web-search-mcp