Open-source Deep Research for AI Agents
40 channels, including 10+ Chinese sources.
MCP-native. LLM-decoupled. Plug into the agent host you already use.
AutoSearch is open-source deep research infrastructure built for AI agents. Plug Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, GPT-Researcher, LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, and other hosts into MCP-native access across 40 channels, including 10+ Chinese sources.
The engine returns indexed multi-source results and stays uncoupled from LLM calls, so your agent keeps its own model, prompts, and workflow.
You ask your AI to research something. It answers from training data cutoff —
- "Show me this week's LLM papers on arxiv" → can't, no academic database access
- "What are people saying about this product on Reddit" → shallow, only surface-level web results
- "Find similar open-source projects on GitHub" → weak, general search misses most repos
- "Summarize the Twitter discussion on this topic" → blocked, no public API
- "Compare opinions on Hacker News vs Chinese tech forums" → two platforms, manual aggregation
AutoSearch fixes this in one line. Pick the path that matches you:
Have Node? (most common — works on macOS, Linux, Windows)
npx autosearch-aiUsing Claude Code / Cursor / Zed? Paste this into your AI agent:
Help me install AutoSearch: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xmariowu/Autosearch/main/docs/install.md
Shell user on macOS / Linux?
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xmariowu/Autosearch/main/scripts/install.sh | bashThe npm wrapper runs install/init only when you invoke it explicitly. Plain
npm install -g autosearch-ai does not auto-run init; avoiding npm
install-time scripts is intentional supply-chain hardening.
After install, your Agent searches 40 channels simultaneously — academic papers, developer communities, Chinese social media, and Linux DO forum threads — results deduplicated and ranked, every result includes a source URL.
| Channel | Ready out of box | Unlocked after config | How to configure |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📄 arxiv | Academic preprints CS/ML/Physics | — | No config needed |
| 🔬 PubMed / OpenAlex / DBLP | Biomedical + cross-discipline papers | — | No config needed |
| 🐙 GitHub | Code, Issues, repository search | — | No config needed |
| 🔍 DuckDuckGo | General web search | — | No config needed |
| 🟠 Hacker News | Developer discussions + early product signals | — | No config needed |
| Community discussion + real user experiences | — | No config needed | |
| 🤗 Hugging Face | Open-source ML model search | — | No config needed |
| 📦 Stack Overflow | Programming Q&A | — | No config needed |
| 📰 Google News | Real-time news aggregation | — | No config needed |
| 💻 dev.to | Developer blogs | — | No config needed |
| 📊 SEC EDGAR | US company filings | — | No config needed |
| 🌐 Wikipedia / Wikidata | Encyclopedia + structured knowledge | — | No config needed |
| 💬 WeChat Official Accounts | Full-text article search | — | No config needed |
| 📱 36kr / InfoQ | Chinese tech & business news | — | No config needed |
| 🧵 Linux DO / Discourse Forums | Linux DO topics and Discourse-based public forum discussions | — | No config needed |
| 🎬 YouTube | Video search + transcripts | — | Set YOUTUBE_API_KEY |
| 📺 Bilibili | Chinese tech videos | — | Set TIKHUB_API_KEY |
| 📹 WeChat Channels | Chinese short videos (视频号) | — | TIKHUB_API_KEY |
| 🌸 Xiaohongshu | Lifestyle + product reviews | More stable | autosearch login xhs or TIKHUB_API_KEY |
| 🐦 Twitter / X | Real-time discussion + tech news | — | TIKHUB_API_KEY |
| 📣 Weibo / Douyin / Zhihu | Chinese social + in-depth discussion | — | TIKHUB_API_KEY |
| 📈 Xueqiu | A-share / HK stock discussion | — | autosearch login xueqiu |
| Public pages via Jina Reader | — | No config needed |
Not sure how to configure? Just tell your Agent "help me configure XXX" — it will guide you step by step.
Run autosearch doctor to check the status of every channel:
AutoSearch Channel Status
==========================================
Always-on (27/27) ✅ arxiv ✅ github ✅ hackernews ...
API-key (0/11) ○ youtube → set YOUTUBE_API_KEY
○ bilibili → set TIKHUB_API_KEY
Login (0/2) ○ xiaohongshu → autosearch login xhs
○ xueqiu → autosearch login xueqiu
MIT.