# iflow-mcp_mcp-local-rag

> MCP "server" that can perform a web search locally without the use of APIs.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/iflow-mcp-mcp-local-rag/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/nkapila6/mcp-local-rag
- repository: https://github.com/nkapila6/mcp-local-rag
- version: 1.0.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:iflow-mcp_mcp-local-rag

### Description (declared)

<a href='https://github.com/nkapila6/mcp-local-rag/'><img src='images/rag.jpeg' width='200' height='200'></a>

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# mcp-local-rag
"primitive" RAG-like web search model context protocol (MCP) server that runs locally. ✨ no APIs ✨

- [Installation](#installation)
    - [Run Directly via `uvx`](#run-directly-via-uvx)
    - [Using Docker (recommended)](#using-docker-recommended)
- [Security audits](#security-audits)
- [MCP Clients](#mcp-clients)
- [Examples on Claude Desktop](#examples-on-claude-desktop)
  - [Result](#result)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [License](#license)

```mermaid
%%{init: {'theme': 'base'}}%%
flowchart TD
    A[User] -->|1.Submits LLM Query| B[Language Model]
    B -->|2.Sends Query| C[mcp-local-rag Tool]
    
    subgraph mcp-local-rag Processing
    C -->|Search DuckDuckGo| D[Fetch 10 search results]
    D -->|Fetch Embeddings| E[Embeddings from Google's MediaPipe Text Embedder]
    E -->|Compute Similarity| F[Rank Entries Against Query]
    F -->|Select top k results| G[Context Extraction from URL]
    end
    
    G -->|Returns Markdown from HTML content| B
    B -->|3.Generated response with context| H[Final LLM Output]
    H -->|5.Present result to user| A

    classDef default stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px;
    classDef process stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px;
    classDef input stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px;
    classDef output stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px;

    class A input;
    class B,C process;
    class G output;
```

# Installation
Locate your MCP config path [here](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/user) or check your MCP client settings. 

### Run Directly via `uvx`
This is the easiest and quickest method. You need to install [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) for this to work. <br>
Add this to your MCP server configuration:
```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-local-rag":{
      "comm…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.vector-search (1, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/iflow-mcp_mcp-local-rag/ (first seen 2026-09-09T20:23:28.393Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/iflow-mcp-mcp-local-rag/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/iflow-mcp-mcp-local-rag · ARD identifier urn:air::server:iflow-mcp-mcp-local-rag