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Parses binary Perfetto trace files (protobuf format) and extracts structured performance data including CPU scheduling, memory allocation, GPU rendering, and custom events. Implements protobuf deserialization to convert raw trace bytes into queryable event streams with timestamp, process, thread, and category metadata. Exposes trace contents through MCP tools that clients can invoke to inspect performance characteristics without requiring direct Perfetto UI access.
Unique: Bridges Perfetto's native binary trace format directly into MCP's tool-calling interface, allowing LLMs to query performance traces without UI interaction. Uses protobuf deserialization to maintain fidelity with Perfetto's internal event representation, enabling structured analysis of CPU scheduling, memory, and GPU events in a single unified interface.
vs alternatives: Unlike manual Perfetto UI inspection or custom Python scripts, perfetto-mcp exposes trace analysis as standardized MCP tools that any LLM client can invoke, enabling automated performance debugging workflows and trace-driven agent reasoning.
Implements MCP server protocol to register and expose trace analysis operations as callable tools. Defines tool schemas (name, description, input parameters) that conform to MCP's function-calling specification, allowing LLM clients to discover and invoke trace queries through standard MCP mechanisms. Handles tool invocation routing, parameter validation, and response serialization back to the client.
Unique: Implements MCP server protocol to expose Perfetto trace analysis as first-class tools, using MCP's schema-based function registry to enable LLMs to discover and invoke trace queries. Handles the full MCP lifecycle: tool registration, parameter validation, invocation routing, and response serialization.
vs alternatives: Compared to REST APIs or custom Python libraries, MCP tool registration provides native LLM integration with zero client-side boilerplate — Claude and other MCP clients can invoke trace analysis directly without custom API wrappers or authentication logic.
Filters parsed trace events by criteria such as process ID, thread ID, event category, or time window. Implements in-memory filtering logic that scans the event stream and returns matching subsets. Supports range queries (e.g., 'events between timestamp T1 and T2') to isolate performance anomalies or specific execution phases without re-parsing the entire trace.
Unique: Provides in-memory filtering of parsed Perfetto events with support for multi-dimensional criteria (process, thread, category, time range). Implements sequential filtering passes to handle complex queries without requiring a separate indexing layer or database.
vs alternatives: Simpler than building a full trace database or index, but slower than indexed queries — suitable for interactive analysis of medium-sized traces where latency is acceptable but complexity must be minimized.
Extracts high-level metadata from parsed traces including process list, thread list, trace duration, event counts by category, and timestamp ranges. Generates summary statistics (e.g., 'trace contains 500K CPU events across 8 processes') to give LLMs a quick overview of trace contents without requiring full event enumeration. Implements aggregation logic that scans the event stream once to compute counts and ranges.
Unique: Generates trace summaries through single-pass aggregation of parsed events, providing LLMs with structured metadata (process/thread lists, event counts, duration) without requiring full event enumeration or complex queries.
vs alternatives: Faster than iterating through all events manually, but less detailed than full trace analysis — ideal for initial trace assessment and LLM context building before deeper investigation.
Analyzes trace events to identify potential performance issues such as excessive context switches, memory spikes, long blocking operations, or GPU stalls. Implements heuristic-based detection (e.g., 'flag CPU events with >100 context switches per second' or 'alert on memory allocations >100MB in <1s'). Exposes detected anomalies as structured results that LLMs can reason about and correlate with application behavior.
Unique: Implements heuristic-based anomaly detection directly on parsed Perfetto events, flagging performance issues (context switches, memory spikes, blocking operations) without requiring external ML models or statistical baselines. Exposes anomalies as structured results for LLM reasoning.
vs alternatives: Simpler and faster than ML-based anomaly detection, but less accurate for subtle or workload-specific issues — suitable for automated screening and LLM-driven investigation where false positives are acceptable.
Extracts GPU rendering events from Perfetto traces including frame composition, GPU command submission, and rendering latency. Computes frame timing metrics (frame duration, GPU time, CPU-GPU sync points) and identifies frames exceeding target frame rates (e.g., 60fps, 120fps). Provides per-frame breakdown of GPU work and identifies rendering bottlenecks (GPU stalls, CPU-GPU synchronization delays).
Unique: Correlates CPU and GPU events from Perfetto traces to identify frame timing bottlenecks, distinguishing between GPU stalls and CPU-GPU synchronization delays. Implements frame-based aggregation of GPU work with per-frame latency attribution.
vs alternatives: Provides programmatic frame timing analysis compared to Perfetto UI's manual frame inspection, enabling automated jank detection and integration with performance monitoring systems.
Compares metrics from multiple Perfetto traces to identify performance regressions or improvements. Computes delta metrics (CPU time difference, memory usage change, frame rate variance) between baseline and test traces and flags statistically significant changes. Supports filtering comparisons by event type, process, or time range. Generates regression reports with affected components and severity scores.
Unique: Implements trace-based regression detection with statistical significance testing, enabling automated performance regression detection in CI/CD pipelines. Computes delta metrics across multiple dimensions (CPU, memory, GPU) with per-component attribution.
vs alternatives: Provides automated regression detection compared to manual trace comparison, and integrates with CI/CD systems for continuous performance monitoring.
Exports trace analysis results in multiple formats (JSON, CSV, HTML reports) for integration with external tools and dashboards. Generates human-readable performance reports with charts, tables, and summary statistics. Supports custom report templates for different analysis types (CPU profiling, memory analysis, frame timing). Exports raw event data for further processing by downstream tools.
Unique: Generates multi-format exports of trace analysis results with support for custom report templates, enabling integration with external dashboards and sharing with non-technical stakeholders. Implements efficient serialization for large trace datasets.
vs alternatives: Provides programmatic export compared to Perfetto UI's manual screenshot/export, enabling automated report generation and integration with monitoring systems.
Executes web searches via the Tavily API and returns structured results with relevance scoring, source attribution, and clean text extraction optimized for LLM consumption. The MCP server marshals search queries through an axios HTTP client configured with the Tavily API key, parses JSON responses containing ranked results with URLs and snippets, and formats output for direct consumption by language models without additional preprocessing.
Unique: Tavily's search results are specifically optimized for LLM consumption with relevance scoring and clean formatting, rather than generic web search results. The MCP server wraps this via StdioServerTransport, enabling seamless integration into Claude Desktop and other MCP clients without custom HTTP handling.
vs alternatives: Returns LLM-ready formatted results with relevance scores out-of-the-box, whereas generic search APIs (Google, Bing) require additional parsing and ranking logic to be LLM-friendly.
Extracts clean, structured content from specified URLs using the Tavily extract endpoint, handling HTML parsing, boilerplate removal, and content normalization automatically. The server sends URLs to Tavily's extraction service via axios, receives parsed markdown or structured text, and returns content ready for LLM ingestion without requiring the client to manage web scraping libraries or HTML parsing.
Unique: Tavily's extraction service is optimized for LLM-ready output (markdown formatting, boilerplate removal, semantic structure preservation) rather than generic web scraping. The MCP server exposes this as a tool that agents can call directly without managing external scraping libraries.
vs alternatives: Handles boilerplate removal and content normalization automatically, whereas Puppeteer or Cheerio require custom logic to identify main content and remove navigation/ads.
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Provides pre-built configuration templates and integration guides for popular MCP clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Cline), including JSON configuration snippets for claude_desktop_config.json, cursor settings, VS Code extensions, and Cline agent configuration. Each integration template specifies the MCP server command, environment variables, and client-specific setup steps.
Unique: Official Tavily MCP provides pre-built integration templates for major MCP clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Cline), reducing setup friction. Each template includes specific configuration syntax and environment variable requirements for that client.
vs alternatives: Pre-built templates eliminate guesswork in client configuration, whereas generic MCP documentation requires users to adapt examples for Tavily-specific setup.
Crawls websites starting from a seed URL and recursively follows internal links up to a specified depth, extracting content from each page and returning a structured collection of crawled pages. The server manages crawl state through Tavily's crawl endpoint, controlling recursion depth and link-following behavior, and returns all discovered pages with their extracted content and metadata for bulk analysis or knowledge base construction.
Unique: Tavily's crawl service is designed for LLM-friendly bulk extraction with automatic content normalization across multiple pages, rather than generic web crawlers that return raw HTML. The MCP server exposes depth control and link-following as tool parameters, enabling agents to autonomously decide crawl scope.
vs alternatives: Handles content extraction and normalization across all crawled pages automatically, whereas Scrapy or Selenium require custom pipelines to extract and normalize content from each page individually.
Analyzes a website's structure and generates a semantic map of URLs organized by topic or content type, enabling agents to understand site organization without manual exploration. The tavily_map tool sends a seed URL to Tavily's mapping service, which crawls the site, clusters pages by semantic similarity, and returns a hierarchical structure of discovered URLs grouped by inferred topic or purpose.
Unique: Tavily's map tool uses semantic clustering to organize URLs by inferred topic rather than just crawling and returning a flat list. This enables agents to navigate large sites intelligently without exhaustive crawling.
vs alternatives: Provides semantic site structure discovery out-of-the-box, whereas generic crawlers return unorganized URL lists requiring post-processing to identify topic-relevant pages.
Orchestrates multi-step research workflows where an agent autonomously decides which search, extraction, and crawling steps to perform based on intermediate results. The tavily_research tool wraps the other four tools and manages state across multiple API calls, allowing agents to refine queries, follow promising leads, and synthesize findings without explicit step-by-step instruction from the user.
Unique: The research tool enables agents to autonomously orchestrate search, extraction, and crawling steps based on intermediate findings, rather than requiring explicit tool calls for each step. This leverages the agent's reasoning to decide research strategy dynamically.
vs alternatives: Enables autonomous research workflows where agents decide next steps based on findings, whereas manual tool-calling requires explicit user or system prompts to specify each search or extraction step.
Implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server specification using TypeScript and StdioServerTransport, enabling the Tavily tools to be exposed as MCP tools callable by any MCP-compatible client. The server registers tool handlers via setRequestHandler(ListToolsRequestSchema, ...) and CallToolRequestSchema, marshaling tool calls from clients through to Tavily API endpoints and returning results in MCP-compliant format.
Unique: Official Tavily MCP server implementation using StdioServerTransport for direct process communication, enabling zero-configuration integration into Claude Desktop and other MCP clients. Supports both remote (hosted) and local deployment models.
vs alternatives: Official MCP implementation ensures compatibility and feature parity with Tavily API, whereas third-party MCP wrappers may lag behind API updates or lack full feature support.
Supports both remote deployment (hosted at https://mcp.tavily.com/mcp/) and local self-hosted deployment (via NPX, Docker, or Git), with different authentication models for each. Remote deployment uses URL parameters or Bearer token headers for API key passing, while local deployment uses TAVILY_API_KEY environment variable. Both expose identical tool capabilities through the same MCP interface.
Unique: Official Tavily MCP provides both remote (zero-setup) and local (self-hosted) deployment options with identical tool capabilities, enabling users to choose based on security, latency, and infrastructure requirements. Remote uses OAuth and Bearer tokens; local uses environment variables.
vs alternatives: Dual deployment model provides flexibility that single-deployment solutions lack; users can start with remote for quick testing and migrate to local for production without code changes.
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