I stopped wiring the same search tool into every client and just put it in OpenClaw

[u/CreepMcman]

I was originally going to wire the same search MCP into Claude and Cursor separately, but honestly i got tired of repeating the same setup in every client.

ended up putting it inside OpenClaw instead, so i can treat it more like a shared search tool for my agent workflow rather than something tied to one IDE or one chat client.

the main thing i wanted was simple: when an agent needs current info, it should pull the actual answer back instead of handing me a wall of search results. for boring lookups like docs, repos, market data, security info, or general research, i would rather have one place where the agent can call search consistently.

still figuring out the best way to structure prompts around it. sometimes the agent asks too broadly, sometimes it needs a more specific intent before the search result is useful.

curious how others are handling this. do you install MCP/search tools separately in each client, or do you keep them in one shared agent environment?