askLABSCO SUMMARY
Profiles are the feature, not the engine count.
Searching 105 engines at once mostly produces noise; naming the profile is what makes the result usable — a package search that looks at npm, PyPI and crates.io answers a different question than a general web search over the same words. The project reports 94.3% on the SimpleQA benchmark, which is a claim you can check against the comparison page it links.
What it is
A hosted MCP server for research. There is nothing to run: point your client at the URL and the assistant gains a question-answering path, a broad web search, a page-to-markdown extractor, and academic paper search. Search is fanned across many engines rather than routed to one.
What you get
- A factual question answered with its sources attached, rather than a link list to read yourself
- Web search across 105 engines, narrowed by one of 14 profiles — general, news, academic, programming, developer news, finance, code repositories, packages, security advisories, social, reference, images, video, or all engines at once
- Clean text or markdown extracted from any URL
- Academic search over arXiv, PubMed and Semantic Scholar
- Several searches issued in parallel when one query is not enough
- The same capabilities over plain HTTP at
https://contextwire.dev/api/ask,/api/searchand/api/extract, and through the@contextwire/sdkpackage
Requirements
An API key from contextwire.dev; the free tier is 1,000 queries a month with no credit card. Nothing to install — add https://contextwire.dev/mcp as the server URL in your client config. The HTTP API takes the key as Authorization: Bearer. You can bring your own LLM key to spend fewer credits. MIT.
Setup effort
Paste a URL — add the endpoint to your client
USE CASES
01
Getting an answer you can check
Ask the factual question and read the synthesized answer with its sources, instead of opening ten tabs.
02
Finding out whether a library exists
Use the package profile so npm, PyPI and crates.io are searched rather than the general web.
03
Reading a page without the page furniture
Extract the URL to markdown so the model gets the article and not the navigation.
04
Checking whether a CVE affects you
Search the security profile against CVE databases, then extract the advisory that matters.
5 tools
Listed in project docs. Your client may show a different list.
searchextractresearchbatch searchBEFORE YOU INSTALL
What to know first
Tools you get
5 tools named in the project's documentation.
Requires
A client that can reach a remote MCP server over HTTP
INSTALLATION
Connect your client
Add the endpoint to your client.
Server setup
ENDPOINT URL
https://contextwire.dev/mcp
