FATSEARCH

io.github.fatsearch/fats

3/4 checks passed
Runs locally
No secrets
★ 50 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-22
Health score 46

About FATSEARCH

FATSEARCH is an MCP server published by the GitHub account fatsearch. Web pages, PDFs and documents as small, clean, cached Markdown for AI agents

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the cargo package fatsearch at version 0.2.4.

It asks for no keys or passwords.

Version 0.2.4 was published on 22 October 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 7 automated checks on registry metadata: 3 pass, 1 warn, 0 fail, 3 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`BRIGHTDATA_UNLOCKER_ZONE`	No	No	Bright Data Web Unlocker zone name (optional; fats setup bd saves the account's zone)

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/fatsearch/fatsearch
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for no secrets
Known package registry	Warn	Unrecognized registry: cargo
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account fatsearch
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Code red flags	Info	cargo packages are not read yet

Popularity & health: 46 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity8 / 40

50 GitHub stars, no download count, 0 Hacker News posts (0 points). Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity15 / 25

Last push 2026-10-22, last release 2026-10-22, 0 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

0 closed of 0 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks16 / 20

1 warning, each costing a fifth.

1 forks, 0 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.fatsearch/fats`
Publisher	GitHub account fatsearch
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account fatsearch. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	cargo `fatsearch` 0.2.4 (stdio)
Version	0.2.4
Published	2026-10-22
Last updated	2026-10-22
Source repository	https://github.com/fatsearch/fatsearch
Website	https://fatsearch.com
Category	Files & documents (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)