AI agent tools for search
Short answer: Our top pick for search: gpt-researcher, with the highest AgentPick Score (84/100) among tools tagged "search". Runners-up: hister (77) and telegram-mcp (71). Compare what each does, its license and how recently it was updated below.
| # | Tool | What it does | Score | Stars | License | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | gpt-researcher | An autonomous agent that conducts deep research on any data using any LLM providers | 84/100 | ★ 30k | Apache-2.0 | 10 Oct 2026 |
| #2 | hister | Your own search engine | 77/100 | ★ 6k | AGPL-3.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #3 | telegram-mcp | Telegram MCP server powered by Telethon to let MCP clients read chats, manage groups, and send/modify messages, media, contacts, and settings. | 71/100 | ★ 1.8k | Apache-2.0 | 13 Oct 2026 |
| #4 | mcp-searxng | Private web search for AI assistants via SearXNG — supports Claude, Cursor, and any MCP client | 71/100 | ★ 1.3k | MIT | 13 Oct 2026 |
| #5 | ketch | Fast, stateless CLI for web search and scrape. Built for AI agents. | 68/100 | ★ 711 | MIT | 13 Oct 2026 |
| #6 | jarvis | Private local AI assistant for your desktop. Voice and text chat, personal memory, dictation and MCP tools. Runs offline with Ollama or OpenAI-compati… | 67/100 | ★ 2.1k | See repo | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #7 | mcp-omnisearch | 🔍 A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server providing unified access to multiple search engines (Tavily, Brave, Kagi, Exa), AI tools (Kagi FastGPT, Exa, … | 60/100 | ★ 356 | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #8 | coding_agent_session_search | Unified TUI and CLI to index and search your local coding agent session history across 11+ providers (Codex, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, Aider, etc.) | 58/100 | ★ 1.2k | See repo | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #9 | vexor | A semantic search engine for files and code. | 57/100 | ★ 244 | MIT | 2 Oct 2026 |
| #10 | ddgs | A metasearch library that aggregates results from diverse web search services | 55/100 | ★ 3k | MIT | 26 Aug 2026 |
| #11 | SearChat | Search + Chat = SearChat(AI Chat with Search), Support OpenAI/Anthropic/VertexAI/Gemini, DeepResearch, SearXNG, Docker. AI对话式搜索引擎，支持DeepResearch, 支持Op… | 43/100 | ★ 1.1k | MIT | 1 Sept 2026 |
| #12 | Director | AI video agents framework for next-gen video interactions and workflows. | 29/100 | ★ 1.6k | MIT | 23 Jan 2026 |
Source: each project's public GitHub repository (description, stars, license, last push). Listed tools aren't tested or ranked by AgentPick.
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