Needle MCP Server

npx mcp-remote https://mcp.needle.app/mcp --header "Authorization:Bearer $NEEDLE_API_KEY"

Needle indexes files that are otherwise dead weight for a model, and the MCP server exposes that as a small loop: create a collection, add documents or URLs to it, then run semantic search inside it. Making the collection the unit is the design decision worth noting — retrieval scope is stated explicitly per query instead of every search hitting one global index, so a support archive and a legal archive stay apart without separate accounts. The recommended path is the hosted streamable HTTP endpoint at mcp.needle.app/mcp with the API key sent as a bearer header; the older SSE endpoint still answers but the MCP specification has deprecated that transport. A local uv run and a Docker image cover self-hosting.