Power Up Claude with Production-Ready Search and RAG

Skip building your own search infrastructure. The Trieve MCP server connects Claude directly to a battle-tested search platform that handles everything from document ingestion to neural search to RAG completions.

Why This Matters for Your Development Workflow

Most developers building with Claude end up reinventing search infrastructure - chunking documents, managing embeddings, building hybrid search, implementing RAG patterns. Trieve gives you all of this as a production-ready API, and the MCP server makes it instantly accessible to Claude.

Think of it as your search backend that Claude can query, analyze, and generate insights from - without you writing a single line of search infrastructure code.

What You Get Out of the Box

Hybrid Search That Actually Works

• Semantic vector search with OpenAI/Jina embeddings
• Typo-tolerant sparse search using SPLADE models
• Cross-encoder reranking for precision
• Sub-sentence highlighting for exact matches

RAG Without the Headaches

• Integrated LLM completions via OpenRouter
• Topic-based memory management
• Custom context selection
• Streaming responses

Production Features

• Built-in analytics and event tracking
• Recommendation engine for content discovery
• Advanced filtering (date-range, tags, numeric)
• Document grouping and deduplication

Real-World Use Cases

Research Assistant Enhancement Connect Claude to your organization's knowledge base. Instead of manually feeding documents to Claude, let it search through thousands of documents, find relevant context, and provide sourced answers with exact citations.

Customer Support Automation Index your documentation, support tickets, and FAQs. Claude can search for solutions, understand context from similar issues, and generate responses that reference specific documentation sections.

Content Intelligence Give Claude access to your content library - blog posts, technical docs, marketing materials. It can find relevant pieces, suggest related content, analyze gaps, or generate new content based on existing patterns.

Code Documentation Helper Index your codebase documentation, API specs, and internal wikis. Claude can search for implementation examples, find relevant code patterns, and provide contextual programming assistance.

Quick Integration

Install via Smithery (easiest):

npx -y @smithery/cli install trieve-mcp-server --client claude

Or configure manually in your Claude Desktop config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trieve": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["trieve-mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "TRIEVE_API_KEY": "your-api-key",
        "TRIEVE_DATASET_ID": "your-dataset-id"
      }
    }
  }
}

Start with their free tier (1k chunks) to test your use case, then scale as needed.

Why Choose This Over Building Your Own

Time to Value: Instead of spending weeks building search infrastructure, you're querying documents through Claude in minutes.

Production Scale: Trieve handles the hard problems - optimal chunking strategies, embedding model selection, search result ranking, and performance optimization.

Flexibility: Self-host in your VPC or use their managed service. Bring your own models or use their optimized defaults.

The MCP server essentially turns Claude into a powerful research and analysis tool that can work with your existing content at scale. Perfect for teams that need Claude to be context-aware about their specific domain without the infrastructure overhead.