About Rabbytte
rabbytte-mcp lets MCP-compatible assistants search Rabbytte, a human-curated web index whose sites are submitted and approved by people. It offers full-text search and cited, index-grounded answers without an API key or signup.
Key features
- 01Full-text search of the curated index
- 02Natural-language answers from index content
- 03Cited sources and no-answer handling
- 04Configurable Rabbytte instance
Use cases
- 01Find human-reviewed sites on a topic
- 02Ask questions grounded in indexed pages
- 03Use cited results to ground assistant responses
MCP support
Exposes search and question-answering tools to MCP clients over stdio. The tools access Rabbytte’s curated index.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
Tools
2Saved tool list · updated 2w ago
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| page | integer | No | |
| query | string | Yes | What to search for |
Details
From the project READMErabbytte-mcp
Search Rabbytte from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible assistant.
Rabbytte is a small, human-curated search engine. Every site in the index was submitted by a person and approved by a person. No crawler, no SEO spam, no machine-generated filler. That makes it useful grounding data: when an assistant searches Rabbytte, every result is a site a human already vetted.
The whole index is free to use. No API key, no signup.
Install
You need Node.js 18 or newer. The server is published on npm and runs with npx, so there is nothing to clone or build.
Claude Desktop
Add this to claude_desktop_config.json (Claude → Settings → Developer → Edit Config):
{
"mcpServers": {
"rabbytte": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "rabbytte-mcp"]
}
}
}
Restart Claude Desktop. You can then ask things like "search Rabbytte for independent music blogs" or "ask Rabbytte what it knows about self-storage in Canyon Lake."
Claude Code
claude mcp add rabbytte -- npx -y rabbytte-mcp
Cursor
Add the same block to .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or to ~/.cursor/mcp.json for all projects:
{
"mcpServers": {
"rabbytte": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "rabbytte-mcp"]
}
}
}
Anything else that speaks MCP
The server uses stdio transport. Point your client at npx -y rabbytte-mcp and it will work.
Tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
search_rabbytte | Full-text search over the curated index. Returns titles, URLs, descriptions, tags, and addresses where known. Accepts query and an optional page. |
ask_rabbytte | Answers a natural-language question strictly from the index, with cited sources. Says so when the index has no answer rather than making one up. |
Configuration
| Variable | Default | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
RABBYTTE_URL | https://rabbytte.com | Point the server at a different Rabbytte instance. |
The plain HTTP API
If you'd rather not use MCP, the same index is available over HTTP:
GET https://rabbytte.com/api/search?q=...GET https://rabbytte.com/api/ask?q=...
Docs and an OpenAPI spec are at rabbytte.com/api-docs. There is also an llms.txt.
Submitting a site
Know a site that belongs in a hand-picked index? Submit it. A person reads every submission.
License
MIT. See LICENSE.
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