Annolux

Search a curated English and Chinese web index through one read-only MCP tool.

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No install snippet on purpose. A working MCP config is a command, its arguments and an environment block — the last two are where API keys live, so this catalogue never stores them and cannot publish them. Follow the link above for the authors' own instructions.

Curated English & Chinese Search API and MCP for AI Agents & RAG Systems

Search that can show its work. Every result carries an explicit fetched_at timestamp and provenance.

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🌐 Website • 📖 API Docs • ⚡ MCP Quickstart • 📊 Frozen Benchmarks • 📁 Examples • 🇨🇳 中文文档

💡 Why Annolux?

Current web search APIs for AI agents suffer from three fatal flaws:

  1. Garbage in, garbage out: Commercial search engines index millions of SEO farms, scraped spam, and auto-generated noise that pollute LLM context windows.
  2. Missing time-provenance: LLMs hallucinate current state because search APIs omit the exact snapshot timestamp (fetched_at).
  3. Predatory billing: Paying full price for failed requests, empty outputs, or rate-limited retries.

Annolux solves this with an agent-first curated approach:

  • 🛡️ Curated Bilingual Technical Index: High-signal English & Chinese corpus (Rust, Go, Python, AI/ML, Official Docs, RFCs, GitHub, arXiv).
  • 🕒 Explicit fetched_at Timestamp: Every ranked hit reveals the exact second it was ingested—enabling grounded citations and temporal reasoning.
  • 🎯 Predictable Ledger Billing: Exactly 1 credit per successful 2xx response. Errors, timeouts (504), rate limits (429), and bad requests cost 0 credits.
  • 🧩 Native Model Context Protocol (MCP): Zero setup across Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Zed, and Claude Desktop.
  • 🚀 1,000 Free Credits Every Month: Sign in with GitHub or Google at annolux.com and start querying in 30 seconds.

🥊 Comparison: Annolux vs. Generic Search APIs

Feature / Metric Annolux Exa (Metaphor) Tavily Serper / Google
Index Quality Curated Tech & Knowledge (EN/ZH) Web-wide neural Web-wide aggregator Entire Web (noisy SEO)
Chinese (ZH) Tech Corpus First-class native bilingual FTS Moderate Weak / Translated Mixed with content farms
Explicit Snapshot Timestamp ✅ fetched_at on every result ❌ Inconsistent ❌ Omitted ❌ Snippet approximate only
Billing Guarantee ✅ 1 credit only on 2xx success Request-based Request-based Request-based
Failed / Timeout Queries 🆓 0 Credits charged ❌ Billed ❌ Billed ❌ Billed
MCP Tool Surface Single lean search_web (Minimal token waste) Multiple bulky tools Multi-step tools Needs custom bridge
Domain Restriction ✅ Exact hostname filtering (domains) ✅ Supported ✅ Supported Limited site: query
Free Starter Tier 1,000 credits / month Limited trial 1,000 / mo 2,500 one-time

From the project's README.