Battam1111/omniseek

Overview

A self-hosted perception MCP server that provides agents with capabilities beyond typical web search. It transcribes speech, reads content behind logins, interprets images and video frames, translates across languages, and retains context. The project is written in Python and is available on GitHub.

Best for

Best for
Developers building self-hosted agents that need multimodal perception and login-gated access.

Use cases

• Give an agent access to audio or video content for transcription and analysis
• Retrieve information from authenticated pages where standard search fails
• Let an agent work across languages and remember prior context in a session

How to use

Tools exposed

• omniseek_search
• omniseek_read
• omniseek_view
• omniseek_transcribe
• omniseek_field_skeleton
• omniseek_resolve_identity
• omniseek_coauthors
• omniseek_institution_cohort
• omniseek_paper_enrich
• omniseek_paper_recommend
• omniseek_graph
• omniseek_sensor
• omniseek_ruling
• omniseek_statement
• omniseek_curator_act
• omniseek_curator_view
• omniseek_gather
• omniseek_sources

Tested with

Claude Code

Notes

A self-hosted perception MCP server that provides agents with capabilities beyond typical web search. It transcribes speech, reads content behind logins, interprets images and video frames, translates across languages, and retains context. The project is written in Python and is available on GitHub.

49 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-09-07. Licensed Apache-2.0.

Use cases

• Give an agent access to audio or video content for transcription and analysis
• Retrieve information from authenticated pages where standard search fails
• Let an agent work across languages and remember prior context in a session

Pros

• Self-hosted, so data and credentials stay under your control
• Broad perception stack in one MCP server: audio, visual, multilingual
• Tightly integrated as an MCP server for agent workflows

Cons

• Small project with 49 stars, so limited community validation
• Requires self-hosting and configuration for each capability
• Documented features exceed what the repo README explicitly confirms

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