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Swarmnest MCP Server

Give your AI agent the whole Swarmnest directory: 3,813 hand-checked tools, APIs and MCP servers in 168 categories, 545 Agent Skills and the Marketplace. One remote URL, free, read-only, no API key.

Server URL

https://swarmnest.ai/mcp

Transport: Streamable HTTP. Protocol versions: 2026-07-28, 2025-11-25, 2025-06-18, 2025-03-26, 2024-11-05. Source and self-hosting notes on GitHub.

Set It UpSee the Tools

Set Up in Your Client

Claude Code

Run in your terminal:

claude mcp add --transport http swarmnest https://swarmnest.ai/mcp

Claude Desktop and Claude.ai

Settings → Connectors → Add Custom Connector, then paste this URL:

https://swarmnest.ai/mcp

Cursor

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (all projects) or .cursor/mcp.json (one project):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "swarmnest": {
      "url": "https://swarmnest.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code (GitHub Copilot)

Add to .vscode/mcp.json, or run MCP: Add Server and choose HTTP:

{
  "servers": {
    "swarmnest": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://swarmnest.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Add to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "swarmnest": {
      "serverUrl": "https://swarmnest.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Codex

Add to ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.swarmnest]
url = "https://swarmnest.ai/mcp"

Gemini CLI

Add to ~/.gemini/settings.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "swarmnest": {
      "httpUrl": "https://swarmnest.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Any Client Without Remote Support (npx mcp-remote)

For clients that only run local servers, including the Claude Desktop config file. Needs Node.js:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "swarmnest": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://swarmnest.ai/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

If your config file already has other servers, add the swarmnest entry next to them. Restart or reload the client after editing a config file.

Tools

All 6 tools are read-only and return canonical swarmnest.ai links, so your agent can cite where each result came from.

search_directorySearch the Swarmnest Directory. Search the Swarmnest directory of AI agent tools: MCP servers, LLM APIs, agent frameworks, coding agents, browser automation, vector databases, web scraping, search, speech and text-to-speech APIs, data sources and more (thousands of hand-checked entries in 160+ categories). Keyword search over name, category and description with typo correction; all keywords must match. Filter by category slug (see list_categories), pricing, auth type or operating system. Returns name, description, category, pricing, auth, the vendor URL, docs URL and the canonical swarmnest.ai listing URL. Use it to find or compare tools for a job, e.g. "pdf parsing", "web search api", "postgres mcp server".
Arguments: query (optional), category (optional), pricing (optional), auth (optional), os (optional), limit (optional), offset (optional)
get_entryGet a Directory Entry. Get the full Swarmnest directory record for one tool by its slug (from search_directory results): name, description, category, vendor URL, docs URL, auth, pricing, operating systems, open-source flag, last link check and the canonical swarmnest.ai URL. Unknown slugs return close matches.
Arguments: slug
list_categoriesList Directory Categories. List every Swarmnest directory category with its slug, name, short description, entry count and group (e.g. Agent Building, AI Models, Data & Search). Use the slugs as the category filter in search_directory. Optionally limit to one group.
Arguments: group (optional)
search_skillsSearch Agent Skills. Search the Swarmnest catalog of Agent Skills: SKILL.md skills, plugin bundles, Cursor rules, AGENTS.md templates and prompt packs for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and other agents. Keyword search over title, summary and category; filter by skill category, format, platform or operating system. Each result says whether the skill includes scripts, uses the network or needs credentials, plus its license, author, source URL and canonical swarmnest.ai URL. All skills are third-party: review the source before installing.
Arguments: query (optional), category (optional), format (optional), platform (optional), os (optional), limit (optional), offset (optional)
get_skillGet an Agent Skill. Get one Agent Skill by slug (from search_skills): summary, format, declared platforms, install steps per platform, scripts/network/credentials labels, license, author, source URL and canonical swarmnest.ai URL. Third-party: review the source before installing.
Arguments: slug
list_marketplace_productsList Marketplace Products. List the agent skill packs, workflows and bundles sold in the Swarmnest Marketplace (US only), with name, type, summary, price in USD, what each bundle includes, the product page URL and the checkout URL.
Arguments: type (optional)

Results are capped at 25 per call; use offset to page. Agent Skills are made by third-party developers, so every skill result carries an install warning: review the source before installing.

Example Prompts

Try It With curl

curl -s https://swarmnest.ai/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_directory","arguments":{"query":"web scraping","pricing":"freemium","limit":5}}}'

Methods: tools/list, tools/call, initialize, server/discover and ping. Responses are plain JSON. Server card: /mcp/server-card.

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