# TakoData-tako-mcp

Wires live web search and licensed datasets into your agent: company financials, macro indicators, site traffic. Useful when you need numbers, not a summary of articles.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, Gemini CLI · ★ 6
- Author: TakoData
- License: MIT · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/TakoData/tako-mcp
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/takodata-tako-mcp

## What it does

The server is hosted at `https://mcp.tako.com/mcp`, so there is nothing to run locally. An anonymous connection gets you `tako_search` under a rate limit; the remaining tools ask you to sign in when called. Signing in mints a per-host key automatically, and new accounts come with up to 2,000 free requests.

The toolset splits into four jobs. Search covers Tako's knowledge graph and the live web, with each result card rendered as a chart, and `tako_contents` reads the rows behind it. You can also find out which proprietary datasets exist for a given entity or metric, pull the underlying rows as JSON, or grab a page's text from a result URL. Your own structured data can become an embeddable card with a link anyone can open.

CI jobs and headless clients can't use the OAuth sign-in, so they need an API key. If you added the server by hand earlier with `claude mcp add`, remove that entry first (`claude mcp remove tako-mcp`) — otherwise every tool shows up twice. The Claude plugin also ships lookup and research skills.

## Requirements
- Remote server: `https://server.smithery.ai/@TakoData/tako-mcp/mcp`

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
claude mcp add --transport http takodata-tako-mcp https://server.smithery.ai/@TakoData/tako-mcp/mcp
```

### Codex

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
codex mcp add takodata-tako-mcp --url https://server.smithery.ai/@TakoData/tako-mcp/mcp
```

### Cursor

**Config file**
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "takodata-tako-mcp": {
            "url": "https://server.smithery.ai/@TakoData/tako-mcp/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```

### GitHub Copilot

**Config file**
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "takodata-tako-mcp": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://server.smithery.ai/@TakoData/tako-mcp/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
gemini mcp add -t http takodata-tako-mcp https://server.smithery.ai/@TakoData/tako-mcp/mcp
```

## When to use it
- pull a company's financials instead of reading news summaries
- check site traffic and country-level macro indicators
- get the rows behind a result URL as JSON
- turn your own table into a chart card and share the link
- run multi-step research on a metric through the Answer Agent

## Example prompts
- Find Nvidia's revenue for the last quarter and chart it
- Which proprietary datasets exist for this company?
- Build a card from my CSV and give me the link

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