OpenResearch MCP

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add openresearch-mcp -e GITHUB_TOKEN=... -e OPENALEX_EMAIL=... -e STACKEXCHANGE_KEY=... -e SEC_USER_AGENT=... -- uvx openresearch-mcp

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openresearch-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "openresearch-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "...",
        "OPENALEX_EMAIL": "...",
        "STACKEXCHANGE_KEY": "...",
        "SEC_USER_AGENT": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

Zero-auth research MCP: web, academic, finance, news, weather, macro, social, SEC. No keys.

Questions

OpenResearch MCP is a local MCP server distributed as the pypi package openresearch-mcp.

Run: claude mcp add openresearch-mcp -e GITHUB_TOKEN=... -e OPENALEX_EMAIL=... -e STACKEXCHANGE_KEY=... -e SEC_USER_AGENT=... -- uvx openresearch-mcp

Run: codex mcp add openresearch-mcp --env GITHUB_TOKEN=... --env OPENALEX_EMAIL=... --env STACKEXCHANGE_KEY=... --env SEC_USER_AGENT=... -- uvx openresearch-mcp

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