Connect (MCP)
MCP tools
The local server (clawifi-mcp) lists 117 tools; the hosted remote server serves 14 of them. Read-only tools are marked.
Search, research and code#
| Tool | What it does | Hosted | Read-only |
|---|---|---|---|
academic_workbench | Search free scholarly archives, then extract deterministic paper-writing structure for selected results. | yes | |
export_dataset | Export a research_bundle or search_free_bundle response into a local JSONL/CSV evidence dataset artifact. | ||
extract_paper_structure | Extract deterministic research-writing structure from a paper: sections, keywords, contribution candidates, and method signals. | yes | |
find_datasets | Search free dataset metadata and inspect selected datasets for files, tags, license, and source metadata. | yes | |
find_research_ideas | Find deterministic research idea cards from free scholarly archive evidence and paper structure signals. | yes | |
get_package | Get PyPI package metadata by name: summary, versions, release dates and links. | yes | |
get_repo | Get GitHub repository metadata by owner and repo: description, stars, topics, license and recent activity. | yes | |
inspect_dataset | Inspect one dataset through a free public metadata API. | yes | |
inspect_package | Inspect one package through free public registry metadata APIs. | yes | |
package_ecosystem_map | Inspect one package name across multiple free public package registries. | yes | |
product_manifest | Return Clawifi's public beta product manifest, proof points, policies, and surface groups. | yes | |
read_paper | Read an academic paper by id or URL: metadata and abstract, optionally full text. | yes | |
read_thread | Read a Reddit or X thread, or a GitHub issue, pull request or discussion, by id or URL, optionally with comments. | yes | |
research | Run a free-first source-aware research search across academic, code, package, and web lanes. | yes | |
research_bundle | Run free-first research and scrape selected URL results into an evidence bundle. | yes | |
research_dataset | Plan, run, scrape, and export a free-first research workflow into a local evidence dataset artifact. | ||
research_plan | Plan a free-first research run with source steps, budget estimates, and backoff policy without executing it. | yes | |
search_academic | Search scholarly papers (default arXiv) with optional enrichment. | yes | |
search_code | Search code on GitHub by query. | yes | |
search_content | Search the web and scrape top results. | yes | |
search_datasets | Search free public dataset metadata across Hugging Face, OpenML, Dataverse, and Figshare. | yes | |
search_free | Free-first web search. | yes | yes |
search_free_bundle | Run free-first search, dedupe/rank results locally, and scrape selected pages into an evidence bundle. | yes | |
search_free_status | Explain free_auto search provider readiness, meta search setup, and paid-provider usage. | yes | |
search_open_archives | Search free open scholarly archive metadata across arXiv, Crossref, Zenodo, OSF, DOAJ, PubMed Central, bioRxiv, and medRxiv. | yes | |
search_packages | Search free package registry metadata across PyPI, npm, crates.io, Maven Central, NuGet, RubyGems, Packagist, and pub.dev. | yes | |
search_web | Search the web using DuckDuckGo (default, no CAPTCHA) or specify source='yandex'. | yes | |
source_catalog | List Clawifi's free-first source lanes, providers, REST routes, and MCP tools. | yes |
Read, browse and crawl#
| Tool | What it does | Hosted | Read-only |
|---|---|---|---|
batch_browse | Render several URLs in a real browser in one call (JavaScript or bot-protected pages), in parallel up to the browser pool size. | yes | |
batch_fetch | Fetch several URLs in one call, up to 4 in parallel, with source-aware routing instead of looping fetch_url. | yes | |
browse_url | Render one URL in a real browser (JavaScript, screenshots, bot-protected pages). | yes | |
browser_act | Act like a person in an open browser session: snapshot, click, type, fill, press, select, check, hover, scroll, wait, navigate, back, tabs, upload, drag, dialog, downloads, text, screenshot, pdf, cookies, logs, wall (is a person needed). | ||
crawl_site | Crawl a bounded site graph with deterministic BFS traversal and partial failure reporting. | yes | |
delete_crawl | Delete a durable crawl and its checkpoint. | ||
download_file | Download a file (PDF, image, archive, dataset) to the local artifacts folder and return its path, size and sha256. | ||
extract_url | Extract structured JSON from a URL using deterministic schema hints, presets, evidence, confidence, and validation. | yes | yes |
fetch_url | Fetch a page or PDF as markdown: plain HTTP first, a browser only when needed. | yes | yes |
get_crawl | Get durable crawl status, bounded page refs, errors, and checkpoint counts. | yes | yes |
http_request | Send one raw HTTP request (GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, OPTIONS) and get status, headers, and text body. | ||
map_site | Discover candidate URLs from robots.txt, sitemaps, RSS/Atom feeds, docs paths, and seed-page links before crawling. | yes | yes |
resume_crawl | Explicitly resume a stopped or interrupted crawl from its durable frontier. | ||
run_recipe | Run a deterministic typed recipe such as pricing_page, docs_index, github_repo, x_profile, academic_paper, or company_profile. | yes | |
run_recipes | Run a deterministic typed recipe over multiple URLs with partial failure reporting. | yes | |
scrape_url | Scrape a URL into requested LLM-ready formats: markdown, text, links, metadata, html, raw_html, screenshot, or state_json (data the page embeds for its JavaScript). | yes | yes |
start_crawl | Start a durable crawl that can be stopped, inspected, and resumed after restart. | yes | |
stop_crawl | Stop a running durable crawl without deleting its checkpoint. |
Jobs, history and monitors#
| Tool | What it does | Hosted | Read-only |
|---|---|---|---|
cancel_job | Cancel a queued or running async Clawifi job. | ||
clawifi_monitor | Facade for Evidence Monitor lifecycle, ticks, and diffs. | ||
create_job | Create an async Clawifi job for fetch, batch_fetch, extract, crawl, or domain_dns. | yes | |
create_monitor | Create an Evidence Monitor. | ||
delete_monitor | Soft-delete a monitor. | ||
estimate | What a call would cost in credits before running it: minimum (what the balance must cover), maximum or a caveat, and what raises it. | yes | yes |
get_history | Get one operation record, including status, lineage, timings, and credit charge. | yes | |
get_history_result | Read a retained operation result without rerunning network work or spending credits. | yes | |
get_job | Get async Clawifi job status, result, or error by job_id. | yes | yes |
get_job_errors | Get normalized errors for an async Clawifi job by job_id. | yes | |
get_job_events | Get the stored event timeline for an async Clawifi job by job_id. | yes | |
get_monitor | Get one Evidence Monitor by ID. | yes | |
list_artifacts | List recent local artifacts with stable artifact_id values. | yes | |
list_history | List account-scoped root operations with filters and cursor pagination. | yes | yes |
list_monitor_diffs | List monitor diff summaries and artifact IDs. | yes | |
list_monitor_ticks | List monitor tick activity. | yes | |
list_monitors | List local Evidence Monitors with schedule, status, and next tick metadata. | yes | yes |
pause_monitor | Pause a monitor without deleting history. | ||
read_artifact | Read a text artifact by artifact_id; binary artifacts return metadata without raw bytes. | yes | |
rerun_history | Explicitly rerun a retained operation and link the new operation through replay_of. | ||
resume_monitor | Resume a paused monitor; optionally make it due immediately. | ||
run_monitor_now | Run a monitor immediately and return tick status plus artifact/diff IDs, not artifact bodies. | ||
update_monitor | Patch a monitor using optimistic versioning. |
Domain records and OSINT#
| Tool | What it does | Hosted | Read-only |
|---|---|---|---|
domain_dns | DNS records for a domain — A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CNAME. | yes | |
domain_recon | Full domain reconnaissance: WHOIS, DNS, SSL, subdomains. | yes | |
domain_ssl | SSL/TLS certificate inspection for a domain. | yes | |
domain_subdomains | Find subdomains via Certificate Transparency logs (crt.sh). | yes | |
domain_subdomains_brute | Brute force subdomains via DNS resolution. | yes | |
domain_virustotal | VirusTotal domain report — reputation, malware analysis, categories. | yes | |
domain_whois | WHOIS lookup for a domain — registrar, dates, name servers. | yes | |
email_recon | Find the addresses a domain publishes on its own pages (home, about, team, contact, careers, privacy, legal) plus one web search, each with the page it came from. | yes | |
ip_intel | Get IP intelligence from Shodan InternetDB — ports, hostnames, vulnerabilities. | yes | |
username_search | Search for a username across social networks using Clawifi's native manifest engine. | yes |
Other#
| Tool | What it does | Hosted | Read-only |
|---|---|---|---|
aws_render | Render a page in an AWS AgentCore managed browser (another IP, no local Chromium). | ||
browser_doctor | Run secret-safe browser runtime, profile lock, WebBridge, extension, and agent config diagnostics. | yes | |
browser_js | Evaluate a JavaScript expression in an active browser session. | ||
browser_vision | Capture a full-page screenshot from an active browser session. | yes | |
clawifi_academic | Facade for academic workflows: search, read, structure, workbench, or ideas. | yes | |
clawifi_browser | Facade for browser sessions, local browser profiles, and Chrome WebBridge. | ||
clawifi_code | Facade for GitHub/code/package intelligence. | yes | |
clawifi_ops | Facade for async jobs and durable operation history. | ||
clawifi_osint | Facade for OSINT over domain, IP, email-domain, or username targets. | yes | |
clawifi_registry | Facade for package and dataset registries. | yes | |
clawifi_research | Facade for source-aware research: plan, results, evidence bundle, or dataset export. | yes | |
clawifi_search | Facade for web search: results, web, content/fetch, bundle, or status. | yes | |
clawifi_site | Facade for site discovery and crawl lifecycle: map, crawl_once, start, status, stop, resume, delete. | ||
clawifi_social | Facade for safe social reads and draft-only composition. | ||
clawifi_web | Facade for URL work: fetch, scrape, browse, structured extract, recipes, and batch variants. | yes | |
close_browser_session | Close a managed browser session by session_id. | ||
close_browser_sessions | Idempotently close selected managed browser sessions, or all sessions when no IDs are supplied. | ||
cloud_render | Render a page in Cloudflare's remote browser (another IP, no local Chromium). | ||
compose_social_draft | Open X/Twitter or Reddit in the real browser and prepare a draft only. | ||
create_browser_profile | Create a named local-only browser profile. | ||
create_browser_session | Create a managed browser session. | ||
delete_browser_profile | Delete a named local-only browser profile contained under the configured runtime directory. | ||
get_browser_session | Get managed browser session status by session_id. | yes | |
get_session_status | Check whether a stored login session exists for a source such as twitter or reddit. | yes | |
github_search_code | Search GitHub code. | yes | |
github_search_users | Search GitHub users by name or username. | yes | |
github_user | Get GitHub user profile — bio, repos, followers, location, email. | yes | |
like_tweet | Like a tweet. | ||
list_browser_profiles | List local-only browser profiles without exposing storage paths or browser storage contents. | yes | |
list_browser_sessions | List managed browser sessions so agents can recover lost session IDs and inspect cleanup state. | yes | |
post_tweet | Post a new tweet to X/Twitter. | ||
reddit_user | Get Reddit user profile — karma, bio, account age. | yes | |
reply_tweet | Reply to a tweet. | ||
retweet | Retweet a tweet. | ||
schema_assist | Infer, validate, merge, or refine a deterministic JSON extraction schema with field provenance. | yes | |
upload_cookies | Store session cookies for a source in the local runtime (operator only). | ||
webbridge_command | Run a real-browser bridge command against the connected Chrome extension. | ||
webbridge_status | Get local real-browser bridge connection status. | yes |
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