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Search API

2 posts · Aug 2025

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Replicate has introduced a new Search API to help users find models, collections, and documentation. This API provides enhanced search capabilities with richer metadata, including generated descriptions and tags. It is integrated into the TypeScript and Python SDKs, and the MCP servers, with sophisticated response filtering to optimize LLM context windows. The older search endpoint remains active but is deprecated in favor of the new API. This post introduces the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, a hosted remote service that allows language models to interact with Replicate's HTTP APIs, enabling natural language querying, comparison, and execution of models. It also details JSON response filtering using `jq` via WebAssembly for managing large API responses and highlights secure authentication with Cloudflare Workers.

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  1. Announcing Replicate's remote MCP serverThis post announces the release of a hosted remote MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, which allows language models to interact with Replicate's HTTP APIs. It details how the MCP server enables natural language querying, comparison, and execution of models. A key technical contribution is the integration of JSON response filtering using a WebAssembly implementation of `jq` to manage large API responses, specifically for Replicate's search API. The post also describes the secure authentication mechanism using Cloudflare Workers and OAuth Provider Framework for Workers, which stores Replicate API tokens securely.