# TinyFish Guided Research (pypi · tinyfish-guided-research-mcp)

Auditable deep-research MCP server powered by TinyFish Search and Fetch.

- Trust score: 52/100 (low)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-20

## Components

- pypi · `tinyfish-guided-research-mcp`: 52/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/mohdsaleh-tinyfish-guided-research/tinyfish-guided-research-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/mohdsaleh-tinyfish-guided-research/tinyfish-guided-research-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `tinyfish-guided-research-mcp`
- Version: `1.0.0`
- 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**: 50/100
  - Malware scan not yet available for this package.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs hatchling.build at install time, a recognised native-build step with no shell scripting around it.
  - 1 of 34 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 45/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 4 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 75/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 1262 tokens (~63/item across 20 items; 20 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 71/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 75/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - 0 of 1 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation; "dispatch_parallel_subagents" implies "execute" and declares no destructiveHint at all, which the MCP spec reads as destructive by default.
  - An AI judge read all 21 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).

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the TinyFish Guided Research MCP server?

TinyFish Guided Research runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx tinyfish-guided-research-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 mohdsaleh-tinyfish-guided-research -- uvx tinyfish-guided-research-mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mohdsaleh-tinyfish-guided-research": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "tinyfish-guided-research-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "mohdsaleh-tinyfish-guided-research": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "tinyfish-guided-research-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add mohdsaleh-tinyfish-guided-research -- uvx tinyfish-guided-research-mcp
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "mohdsaleh-tinyfish-guided-research": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "tinyfish-guided-research-mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add mohdsaleh-tinyfish-guided-research --command uvx --arg tinyfish-guided-research-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  mohdsaleh-tinyfish-guided-research:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["tinyfish-guided-research-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "mohdsaleh-tinyfish-guided-research": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "tinyfish-guided-research-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add mohdsaleh-tinyfish-guided-research -t stdio -c uvx -a tinyfish-guided-research-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mohdsaleh-tinyfish-guided-research": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "tinyfish-guided-research-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.

### 2026-09-15 (score 52)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (20)

### `check_server_config` (~25 tokens)

Check API key, DNS, and live TinyFish Search/Fetch endpoint health.

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `init_research` (~73 tokens)

Start a research session with an explicit latency/coverage profile.

FAST is the default and preserves the same hard evidence gates while
fetching/reviewing fewer candidates and stopping resolved claims early.

Input parameters:

- `contested` (boolean)
- `max_rounds`
- `mode`
- `topic` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `plan_research` (~32 tokens)

Validate and store the research plan before any retrieval.

Input parameters:

- `plan` (required)
- `research_id` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `dispatch_parallel_subagents` (~36 tokens)

Execute independent retrieval tracks concurrently and return only a compact review shortlist.

Input parameters:

- `research_id` (string, required)
- `tasks`

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `discovery_search` (~51 tokens)

Run a compact additional retrieval wave; later waves consume the global follow-up budget.

Input parameters:

- `purpose` (string, required)
- `queries` (array, required)
- `research_id` (string, required)
- `retrieval`

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `screen_sources` (~36 tokens)

Initial semantic source gate over only the server-provided review shortlist.

Input parameters:

- `research_id` (string, required)
- `screenings` (array, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `register_claims` (~58 tokens)

Register new claims only; does not accept evidence.

This separation prevents claim creation and evidence judgment from being
conflated in one call. Server generates every claim_id.

Input parameters:

- `claims` (array, required)
- `research_id` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `split_claim` (~44 tokens)

Split a compound claim. The parent is superseded automatically.

Input parameters:

- `children` (array, required)
- `parent_claim_id` (string, required)
- `research_id` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `override_atomicity` (~46 tokens)

Explicitly override an atomicity warning for a maximally atomic claim.

Input parameters:

- `claim_id` (string, required)
- `reason` (string, required)
- `research_id` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `revise_claim` (~69 tokens)

Replace an incorrect/overbroad active claim without leaving the parent unresolved.

The old claim is superseded automatically. Use this for semantic revision;
use split_claim when one claim must become multiple children.

Input parameters:

- `claim_id` (string, required)
- `replacement` (required)
- `research_id` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `bind_evidence` (~82 tokens)

Bind direct source quotations to existing claims and verify quote presence.

This tool does NOT accept semantic stance. Keeping quote binding separate
from entailment judgment gives weak client models one bounded operation at a
time and prevents a topical passage from becoming support merely because it
was attached to a claim.

Input parameters:

- `bindings` (array, required)
- `research_id` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `judge_evidence` (~66 tokens)

Assign bounded semantic relation labels to quote-verified evidence.

The server owns evidence IDs and quote integrity. The client does exactly one
semantic task here: classify the relationship between the displayed quote
and its claim.

Input parameters:

- `judgments` (array, required)
- `research_id` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `assess_claims` (~29 tokens)

Compute deterministic claim resolution and return a complete next-step packet.

Input parameters:

- `research_id` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `research_unknowns` (~42 tokens)

Run targeted retrieval only for claims that still need work, then return one compact review packet.

Input parameters:

- `gaps` (array, required)
- `research_id` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `review_candidates` (~90 tokens)

Unified claim/source review: relevance + direct quote + semantic relation.

Initial broad retrieval still uses screen_sources before claims exist. Once
claim IDs exist, this is the preferred path for both initial evidence and
targeted gap evidence; bind_evidence/judge_evidence remain low-level
compatibility tools rather than the normal happy path.

Input parameters:

- `research_id` (string, required)
- `reviews` (array, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `get_source_context` (~59 tokens)

Return a few relevant passages from persisted full source content.

Use when the client needs a better direct quote without re-fetching the URL.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string)
- `research_id` (string, required)
- `source_id` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `review_claim_tensions` (~62 tokens)

Record cross-claim tensions after the claim graph is stable.

Mandatory once for contested sessions. Tensions may describe genuine
theoretical disagreement even when both claims accurately represent
different positions.

Input parameters:

- `research_id` (string, required)
- `tensions` (array, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `verify_citations` (~67 tokens)

Server-owned citation integrity + coverage audit.

Normal use: pass research_id only. The server automatically selects the
strongest quote-verified winning evidence for each strongly resolved claim.
Optional citations are accepted only as explicit client overrides.

Input parameters:

- `citations`
- `research_id` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `finalize_research` (~34 tokens)

Finalize into an auditable synthesis manifest; do not generate prose inside the MCP.

Input parameters:

- `research_id` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

### `get_research_state` (~33 tokens)

Debug/inspection tool. Returns compact protocol state, not full source text.

Input parameters:

- `research_id` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `agent_rules` (array)
- `data` (object)
- `next_action`
- `protocol_version` (string)
- `quality_gate`
- `status` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/mohdsaleh-tinyfish-guided-research/tinyfish-guided-research-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-20: 52
- 2026-09-19: 52
- 2026-09-18: 52
- 2026-09-17: 52
- 2026-09-16: 52
- 2026-09-15: 52

## Common questions

### What is the TinyFish Guided Research MCP server?

TinyFish Guided Research is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.MohdSaleh/tinyfish-guided-research. Auditable deep-research MCP server powered by TinyFish Search and Fetch. This page covers its PyPI package (tinyfish-guided-research-mcp).

### Is the TinyFish Guided Research MCP server safe to use?

TinyFish Guided Research scores 52 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 TinyFish Guided Research MCP server expose?

TinyFish Guided Research exposes 20 tools: check_server_config, init_research, plan_research, dispatch_parallel_subagents, discovery_search, and 15 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,034 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the TinyFish Guided Research MCP server still maintained?

TinyFish Guided Research 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.

### What licence is the TinyFish Guided Research MCP server under?

TinyFish Guided Research declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/tinyfish-guided-research-mcp/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/tinyfish-guided-research-mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/MohdSaleh/tinyfish-guided-research-mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/mohdsaleh-tinyfish-guided-research/tinyfish-guided-research-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/mohdsaleh-tinyfish-guided-research/tinyfish-guided-research-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/mohdsaleh-tinyfish-guided-research/tinyfish-guided-research-mcp