Minirag

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Local-first RAG MCP server: hybrid search over a folder of your own documents

Getting Started

npx @getmcp/cli add io.github.sfrangulov/minirag-mcp

Requires Python 3.10+. Community-contributed server. Review source before installing.

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Configuration

Config file: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

JSON

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io.github.sfrangulov/minirag-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "minirag-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BASE_DIR": "",
        "BASE_DIRS": "",
        "DB_PATH": "",
        "CACHE_DIR": "",
        "MODEL_NAME": "sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2",
        "MAX_FILE_SIZE": "104857600",
        "CHUNK_TOKEN_BUDGET": "110",
        "RAG_HYBRID_WEIGHT": "0.6",
        "RAG_GROUPING": "",
        "RAG_MAX_DISTANCE": "",
        "RAG_MAX_FILES": "",
        "RAG_INSTRUCTIONS_APPEND": "",
        "ALLOW_PRIVATE_URLS": "false"
      }
    }
  }
}

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