You.com MCP Server
Updated June 2026✓ OfficialThe You.com MCP server, built by youdotcom-oss, provides the You.com MCP Server (published as `@youdotcom-oss/mcp`) is a lightweight STDIO bridge that proxies MCP clients to You.com's hosted MCP endpoint at `https://api.you.com/mcp`, rather than running search logic locally — the actual retrieval and ranking happen on You.com's servers. It is officially maintained and best for Search.
by youdotcom-oss
About
The You.com MCP Server (published as `@youdotcom-oss/mcp`) is a lightweight STDIO bridge that proxies MCP clients to You.com's hosted MCP endpoint at `https://api.you.com/mcp`, rather than running search logic locally — the actual retrieval and ranking happen on You.com's servers. It ships from You.com's own `youdotcom-oss` GitHub organization as part of their dx-toolkit monorepo, not the fabricated `you-com/mcp-server` repo sometimes cited elsewhere. Install by running `npx @youdotcom-oss/mcp` directly in your MCP client config, or add it as a dependency with `bun add @youdotcom-oss/mcp`; authentication requires a `YDC_API_KEY` environment variable, sent as a Bearer token to the hosted endpoint. By default the server exposes three tools: `you-search` for real-time web search grounded in You.com's independent index, `you-research` for deeper multi-step research queries that synthesize across several sources, and `you-contents` for fetching and extracting clean content from specific URLs. A fourth tool, `you-finance`, covers stock/market data but is opt-in only — it must be explicitly added via the `YDC_ALLOWED_TOOLS` environment variable (e.g. `YDC_ALLOWED_TOOLS=you-search,you-finance`) rather than being enabled by default. Typical use: an agent needs current information beyond its training cutoff — "search for the latest news on X" or "research competing products in this space and summarize the differences" — and calls You.com's search/research tools instead of relying on stale internal knowledge or a generic scraping fallback.
Installation
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Repo Health
Local/stdio install — runs on your machine, so there is no remote endpoint to verify live. Trust signal below is from the source repo.
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Quick Info
- Install Type
- npm
- Author
- youdotcom-oss
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