# Penny Search Muse connector

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## Penny Search

Low-cost live web search for current facts, news, and research

- Record: https://musedirectory.ai/connector/penny-search
- Category: Research & Data
- Developer: Ayoub Salem (https://pennyregwatch.com)
- Muse status: Extra setup. Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.
- Health: Working, 210ms, checked 2026-09-28T08:01:03Z
- Endpoint: https://pennyapi-production.up.railway.app/mcp
- Auth: No account needed; Pricing: unknown
- Screening: Screened, no issues found (2026-09-25T05:26:11Z)
- Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (io.github.ayoubsalem-spec/penny-search) https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=io.github.ayoubsalem-spec%2Fpenny-search

Live web search tool that finds current information, recent news, and documentation. Charges $0.004 per search via x402 micropayments on Base USDC. Useful when Muse needs ranked web results for grounding or fact-checking.

Example request: "Search for today's weather forecast or the latest news about a topic I'm interested in"

How to connect: Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use Penny Search to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://pennyapi-production.up.railway.app/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Tools:
- penny_web_search: Low-cost live web search for current information, recent news, fresh facts, documentation lookup, research, source discovery, and web grounding. Use this first when ranked current web results are enough; use a deeper scraping or specialist tool only when the task needs capabiliti

Screening checks:
- MCP handshake: pass (Answered in 283ms)
- Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS): pass (pennyapi-production.up.railway.app, pennyregwatch.com not flagged)
- Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database: n/a (No npm or PyPI package published)
- Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text: pass (1 tools read, nothing found)
- Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases: pass (None found)
- Domain and redirects: pass (Domain registered 2611 days ago)
- AI review of purpose and tool behavior: pass (No concerns)