Almanac MCP, turn Claude Code into a Deep Research agent
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I am Rohan, and I have grown really frustrated with CC's search and read tools. They use Haiku to summarise all the search results, so it is really slow and often ends up being very lossy.I built this MCP that you can install into your coding agents so they can actually access the web properly.Right now it can:- search the general web- search Reddit- read and scrape basically any webpageInstall it:npx openalmanac setupThe MCP is completely free to use. We have also built a central store where you can contribute things you learned while exploring. If you find something useful, you can contribute it to the encyclopedia we're building at Almanac using the same MCP.
HN · launched Apr 21, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 31%) · 0 views
Niche: model context protocol tools · 465 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -24% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Yes It is an MCP server providing web search and scraping endpoints (wrapping search/scraping APIs) for AI coding assistants.
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Attention rank: #163 of 388 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 166 days after the earliest competitor.
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