cortex-scout vs fetch

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	cortex-scout by cortex-works	fetch by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 65	★ 85,748
30d uses	—	—
Score	46	76
Official	—	✓
Categories	Browser AutomationWeb ScrapingAI / LLM Tools	Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity
Language	Rust	TypeScript
Last commit	1 mo ago	this month

cortex-scout · Summary

Unified web extraction and stateful automation engine for AI agents with MCP integration.

fetch · Summary

An MCP server that fetches web content and converts HTML to markdown, allowing LLMs to read web pages.

cortex-scout · Use cases

AI agents requiring token-efficient web retrieval with anti-bot handling
Automated testing workflows replacing heavy frameworks like Playwright
Research systems needing deep multi-hop search and extraction

fetch · Use cases

LLMs reading news articles and blogs
Content analysis of web pages
Retrieving information from public websites
Chunked reading of large web documents

cortex-scout · Install

Installation

Option A — Prebuilt binaries

Download the latest release assets from GitHub Releases:

cortex-scout-mcp — MCP stdio server (recommended for VS Code/Cursor/Claude Desktop)
cortex-scout — optional HTTP server

Option B — Build from source

Install protoc first, then:

git clone https://github.com/cortex-works/cortex-scout.git
cd cortex-scout
cargo build --release --manifest-path mcp-server/Cargo.toml --bin cortex-scout-mcp

Claude Desktop Integration

Add to your Claude Desktop config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cortex-scout": {
      "command": "env",
      "args": [
        "RUST_LOG=warn",
        "CORTEX_SCOUT_TOOL_TIMEOUT_SECS=90",
        "/path/to/cortex-scout-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

fetch · Install

Installation

**Using uv (recommended)** No specific installation needed. Use uvx to run the server directly:

uvx mcp-server-fetch

**Using PIP** Install via pip:

pip install mcp-server-fetch

Then run as:

python -m mcp_server_fetch

Claude Desktop Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fetch": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-server-fetch"]
    }
  }
}

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