Deterministic research MCP server on FastMCP 3 — 5-engine web search, 9-platform social search, 6 academic DBs, news aggregation, entity profiles, conflict detection, document analysis. No API keys. No in-server LLM. Structured outputs for agent chaining.
Latest release v1.2.0 — v1.2.0 — FastMCP 3 upgrade + observability rebuild · 17 Apr 2026
2 files for Codex, OpenCode and Claude Code: RivalSearchMCP AGENTS.md, RivalSearchMCP CLAUDE.md — 5,408 tokens loaded in every session.
AGENTS.md A 2,638 tok CLAUDE.md A 2,770 tok These files are damionrashford/RivalSearchMCP's own configuration — they tell Codex, OpenCode and Claude Code how to work on this repository, so they are not mods to install elsewhere. Copy one as a starting point and replace the parts that are about this project.