Agentic Research vs Haypile

In-depth architectural comparison of the Agentic Research and Haypile MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

Which MCP Server Should You Choose?

Choose Agentic Research when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Research domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).

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Choose Haypile when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Research domain.
• You prefer remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).

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Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification	Agentic Research Research	Haypile Research
Summary	Local research agent that verifies its own answers. Runs on Gemma 3 4B + Ollama, $0/query.	Hybrid search over your local documents, with file and page citations. One binary, fully local.
Category & Scope	Research	Research
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Tools & Capabilities Breakdown

Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations

Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agentic-research": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "agentic-research-engine"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "haypile": {
      "url": "http://localhost:11500/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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