This is a guide for AI agents to install Onion Search MCP, a tool made by Max Romer to give AI models tools to search the web with Tor. If you are reading this, that means your user wants you to help them get this MCP installed and set up.
- Ask the user what apps and services they want to use this MCP with — offer to install it into apps such as LM Studio, OpenCode, LibreChat, or any other tool they would like.
- Decide where to save this MCP in the user’s filesystem — You should save this MCP in a logical place in the user’s filesystem. This might be the current working directory you’re pointed to, or one the user tells you to use. If not, no need to ask; it’s okay to make a presumption for now. One important thing is that during Tor sessions, this MCP does cache Tor network data in its folder, so you probably shouldn’t save it to something that backs up to OneDrive or iCloud or something like t
