Nimrod

Registre officiel Recherche et web

Web search with quality scores; web pages are read on your computer by the local server.

Installation

Ajoutez ceci à la configuration MCP de votre client (Claude Desktop : claude_desktop_config.json ; Cursor : .cursor/mcp.json ; VS Code et les autres utilisent la même forme « mcpServers »).

Remote (streamable-http)
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http nimrod 'https://nimrod.orchis.ai/mcp'
Configuration JSON (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code)
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "nimrod": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://nimrod.orchis.ai/mcp"
        }
    }
}
MCPB package https://github.com/mixelpixx/Nimrod/releases/download/v2.1.0/nimrod.mcpb

Variables d'environnement

  • NIMROD_API_KEY secret Optional. Leave unset to sign in with your browser on the first search; or an nmk_ key from https://nimrod.orchis.ai/portal

Documentation

Tirée du README du projet sur GitHub, actualisée chaque semaine. Les liens ouvrent GitHub.

Sommaire
  1. Nimrod
  2. What it is
  3. Get connected
  4. In the MCP Registry
  5. Built to pair
  6. Support

Nimrod

Web research your agent can actually use.

Quality-scored Google search, clean webpage extraction, and deep multi-source research for Claude — over the Model Context Protocol.

Website · Docs · Pricing · Portal


What it is

Nimrod gives Claude four research tools:

ToolWhat it doesCost
google_searchOrganic Google results with quality scores, authority ratings, and source-type classification1 credit
extract_webpage_contentAny URL → clean markdown, boilerplate strippedfree
extract_multiple_webpagesUp to 5 URLs, fetched concurrentlyfree
research_topicSearch → rank → dedupe → extract → synthesis, in one call1 credit + 1 per focus area

Why not just let the model search? Because raw search is where agent runs go to die: Nimrod returns ranked evidence instead of SEO sludge, as token-efficient markdown instead of raw HTML, with deterministic costs (1 credit = 1 search) and date/site/language control.

New accounts start with a free 50-credit trial — no card required.

Get connected

Claude.ai & Claude Desktop (zero install): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste https://nimrod.orchis.ai/mcp → sign in with your email. Done.

Claude Code (hosted):

claude mcp add nimrod --transport http https://nimrod.orchis.ai/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer nmk_your_key"

Nimrod Desktop (full toolkit — recommended for power users): a locally installed MCP server with six research skills, a deep-research agent, and search-coach hooks (Claude Code features). Extraction is free on every plan; on Desktop it also runs on your own machine, so the pages you read stay private. Grab it from **Releases**:

  • Windows — nimrod.mcpb for Claude Desktop (double-click, paste key), or nimrod-desktop.exe for Claude Code: nimrod-desktop setup, then claude mcp add nimrod -- path\to\nimrod-desktop.exe
  • macOS — nimrod-desktop-macos (universal: Apple Silicon + Intel): chmod +x it, then a one-time xattr -d com.apple.quarantine nimrod-desktop-macos (not yet Apple-signed), then setup and claude mcp add as above
  • Linux — nimrod-desktop-linux: chmod +x, setup, claude mcp add

In the MCP Registry

Nimrod is listed in the official MCP Registry as ai.orchis/nimrod — MCP clients that browse the registry (including VS Code's MCP gallery) can discover and install it from there.

Built to pair

Run Nimrod beside your other MCP tools — like Konnect for KiCAD: live parts data from your EDA workflow, live web research from Nimrod, one agent, no stale training cutoff.

Support

Docs: nimrod.orchis.ai/docs.html · Email: admin@orchis.ai · Terms · Privacy


The original open-source BYOK server this project grew from is preserved on the historical-oss branch (unmaintained).

Questions fréquentes

Qu'est-ce que Nimrod ?

Web search with quality scores; web pages are read on your computer by the local server.

Comment installer Nimrod ?

Il fonctionne comme serveur distant. Dans Claude Code : claude mcp add --transport http nimrod 'https://nimrod.orchis.ai/mcp'. Pour les autres clients, collez la configuration JSON de cette page dans leurs réglages MCP.

Faut-il une clé API pour Nimrod ?

Oui. Il attend NIMROD_API_KEY, à renseigner dans sa configuration.

Nimrod est-il open source ?

Son code est public sur GitHub, mais le dépôt ne déclare pas de licence standard.

Qui maintient Nimrod ?

Il est publié par mixelpixx. AI.tn le référence sans le maintenir ni le recommander.

Issu du registre MCP officiel. Être listé n'est pas une recommandation : vérifiez le code et les permissions d'un serveur avant de lui donner accès à vos données.