[Feature Request] Add simplied searxng_web_search tool

[eamars]

• Idea: Can you add a simplified tool call, for example web_search_simple that only takes the query as the input?
• Reason: I'm running an local LLM which has limited context window and lesser intelligent brain.. Most parameters, other than the query are not called by the LLM normally. Thus, may I ask you provide additional tool that will only allow LLM to search with default parameters?

[ihor-sokoliuk]

@eamars the query parameter is mandatory. All other parameters are optional. It's clearly stated in the tools description.

{
  "properties": {
   ...
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

There's no need to create another tool just for simplicity.
Also, the MCP tools must be compact. Duplicating the tools will result in the token waste.

[atmosfar]

@ihor-sokoliuk is it possible to limit the number of results that the web search returns? Typically the results are >20 hits long and only the top 5 are really needed.

[ihor-sokoliuk]

@atmosfar The SearXNG API does not support limiting the number of returned results. Your point is valid. I can add another property to the query to limit the results to the top N items. The MCP server will handle it.

Let me work on it sometime in the future.

[atmosfar]

@atmosfar The SearXNG API does not support limiting the number of returned results. Your point is valid. I can add another property to the query to limit the results to the top N items. The MCP server will handle it.

Let me work on it sometime in the future.

I tried modifying it on a local copy. Added a ?limit arg to pass to json array.slice(). It worked, but the model only applied the limit when explicitly told to. Might be good to have as an env variable so you could set a sensible default.