Staan MCP server

<!-- mcp-name: io.github.MarcinWolnyEU/staan-mcp -->

Staan-MCP

An MCP server for the European search engine STAAN (Search Trusted API Access Network) built by the European Perspective SAS, co-owned by Qwant and Ecosia search engines. It's an open European alternative to Exa Search and other SERP services, with its own index, oriented primarily at the European markets (+parts of Commonwealth), giving it a unique perspective that other search providers might be missing. Free subscription grants 1000 requests per month.

MCP comes with two tools:

• web_search: web search with optional full-page content (Markdown or HTML), in one or many Staan markets at once.
• answer: a grounded answer with citations, rendered as Markdown with GitHub-style footnotes.

It runs over stdio (the default), streamable HTTP, or stateless streamable HTTP, and can protect the HTTP transports with an optional OAuth 2.1 resource-server gate. If you only need stdio, it can also run with nothing installed, just download the zip of the repository and point your AI agent to this file (README.md).

Note: staan-mcp is not affiliated with Staan, European Perspective, Qwant or Ecosia. It's just a solo project to deliver quality Python MCP that, at the time of release, did not exist.

Important: the answer API endpoint is invitation-only and even if your invitation was granted - it might be tempolarly disabled at any point in time, resulting in {"message":"Forbidden","statusCode":403} responses.

Quickstart

You need a Staan API key (create one in the Staan console, the free plan includes 1,000 requests per month). Then if you have uv installed you can simply configure your harness - you don't need to download anything from this repository here, uv through the uvx command will download the latest version of the MCP automatically for you.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "staan": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["staan-mcp"],
      "env": { "STAAN_API_KEY": "your-staan-api-key" }
    }
  }
}

This exact JSON works in Claude Desktop and Cursor. Claude Code, VS Code and Hermes Agent use a different format: see Client configuration.

If you are an LLM or simply need more details, continue further on.

Detailed setup

Three ways to run it

1. Installed package

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.