kagi-mcp

kagi-mcp is a tiny MCP server built on top of kagi-cli.

It is intentionally just an extra repo:

• separate repo
• one Rust binary
• wraps the kagi CLI instead of reimplementing Kagi logic
• returns the same JSON the CLI already emits

Requirements

• A working kagi binary on PATH, or KAGI_CLI_PATH pointing to it
• Kagi credentials provided through environment variables
  • KAGI_SESSION_TOKEN
  • KAGI_API_TOKEN

.kagi.toml is not the recommended auth path for MCP usage because the CLI resolves it relative to the server process working directory.

Build

cargo build --release

Run

KAGI_CLI_PATH=/path/to/kagi \
KAGI_SESSION_TOKEN=... \
KAGI_API_TOKEN=... \
./target/release/kagi-mcp

Optional:

• KAGI_CLI_PATH: explicit path to the kagi binary
• KAGI_MCP_TIMEOUT_MS: subprocess timeout in milliseconds, default 30000

Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kagi": {
      "command": "/home/ubuntu/workspace/kagi-mcp/target/release/kagi-mcp",
      "env": {
        "KAGI_CLI_PATH": "/home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v24.13.0/bin/kagi",
        "KAGI_SESSION_TOKEN": "your-session-token",
        "KAGI_API_TOKEN": "your-api-token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Tools

• kagi_search
• kagi_summarize
• kagi_news
• kagi_news_categories
• kagi_news_chaos
• kagi_assistant
• kagi_fastgpt
• kagi_enrich_web
• kagi_enrich_news
• kagi_smallweb
• kagi_auth_status
• kagi_auth_check

Test

cargo test