The speed comes from Everything's existing index rather than from the server, which is why searching an entire disk costs about what searching one folder does. The statistics tools are the underrated pair: a count or a total size without paying for the file list.
An MCP server that fronts Everything, the Windows file search index, through its command-line tool es.exe. Searching a whole drive returns immediately because the index already exists.
- Basic search with wildcards and sorting, plus filters for extension, size and path
- Regular-expression search
- Search by category, by file attribute, and folders or files only
- Recently modified files, large files, empty folders and duplicate names
- File counts and total sizes without listing the files themselves
- Full details on a single file, and its location opened
- Results exported to txt, csv, json and more
Windows only, because Everything itself is Windows-only. Everything must be installed and running, and es.exe from voidtools must sit in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WindowsApps. On the alpha build of Everything, the server needs an environment variable naming that instance before it will connect — set it and restart the client.
One command — uvx mcp-everything-search