Algolia Search MCP Server

This repository have been archived. The Official server is released at Algolia Node.js MCP.

Features

• Search for any text in your Algolia index

Setup

This package is installed as local.

1. Clone the repository

2. Install dependencies

   cd algolia-search-mcp-server
   pnpm install
   

3. Build the project and install it globally

   pnpm build
   npm install -g .
   

4. Configure your IDE:

   • cline(cline_mcp_settings.json)

     {
       "mcpServers": {
         "algolia-search-server": {
           "command": "algolia-search-server",
           "env": {
             "ALGOLIA_APPLICATION_ID": "<YOUR_ALGOLIA_APPLICATION_ID>",
             "ALGOLIA_SEARCH_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ALGOLIA_SEARCH_API_KEY>",
             "ALGOLIA_INDEX_NAME": "<YOUR_ALGOLIA_INDEX_NAME>"
           }
         }
       }
     }
     

   • Visual Studio Code(settings.json)

     {
       "chat.mcp.discovery.enabled": true,
       "mcp": {
           "servers": {
               "algolia-search-server: {
                   "command": "algolia-search-server",
                   "env": {
                     "ALGOLIA_APPLICATION_ID": "<YOUR_ALGOLIA_APPLICATION_ID>",
                     "ALGOLIA_SEARCH_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ALGOLIA_SEARCH_API_KEY>",
                     "ALGOLIA_INDEX_NAME": "<YOUR_ALGOLIA_INDEX_NAME>"
                   }
               }
           }
       }
     }
     

Capabilities

• Provides one stdio MCP tool, search_index.
• Searches the single Algolia index configured by ALGOLIA_INDEX_NAME.
• Uses ALGOLIA_APPLICATION_ID and ALGOLIA_SEARCH_API_KEY to create the Algolia Search client.
• Returns Algolia search results as formatted JSON text.

Limitations

• The upstream README states this repository has been archived and points users to the official Algolia Node.js MCP.
• The package is installed from local source; it is not published to npm under the reviewed package names.
• Only stdio transport is implemented.

Package target clarification

The reviewed upstream package.json names the local package algolia-search-mcp-server at version 0.0.1 and exposes the algolia-search-server executable through bin. The README documents a local source build (pnpm install, pnpm build, npm install -g .) and then running algolia-search-server with no arguments. npm registry lookups for algolia-search-mcp-server and @chick-p/algolia-search-mcp-server returned 404, so this package target represents the documented source-built local npm workflow rather than a published npm registry package.

Wardn validation wrapper note

Upstream documents running algolia-search-server with no application arguments. Wardn package submission validation currently blocks an empty transport.args array for package targets, so the stored transport uses sh -lc algolia-search-server to preserve a zero-argument invocation of the upstream executable while allowing the draft to be submitted. No documented CLI/package arguments are advertised.

Package target clarification

The upstream package.json name is algolia-search-mcp-server version 0.0.1, but npm registry lookups for algolia-search-mcp-server and @chick-p/algolia-search-mcp-server returned 404. The package target is therefore modeled as a local source-built npm package: clone the GitHub repository, run pnpm install, pnpm build, npm install -g ., then launch algolia-search-server directly with no application arguments. The GitHub Actions CI=true setting is build/CI-only metadata and is excluded from runtime environment variables.