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# Awesome MCP 🚀
A curated list of awesome Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, tools, and resources
Contents
- What is MCP?
- Legend
- Security Model
- Official Resources
- MCP Servers
- Reference Architectures
- Templates & Starters
- Clients
- Frameworks & SDKs
- Tutorials & Guides
- Community
- Contributing
What is MCP?
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that enables AI models to securely interact with local and remote resources through standardized server implementations.
Key Benefits:
- 🔌 Universal connector - One protocol to connect AI to any data source
- 🟢 Secure by design - Controlled access to resources
- 🛠️ Extensible - Build custom integrations easily
- 🤝 Interoperable - Works across different AI platforms
Quick Start
New to MCP? Start here:
- Install a client: Claude Desktop or Cursor
- Run a local server: Try the Filesystem server
- Try a simple task: Ask the AI to "Summarize files in this folder" or "Read this text file"
👉 Pro Tip: Use npx to run servers instantly without installation (e.g., npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem).
Use Cases
Find the right tool for your goal:
| Goal | Recommended MCPs |
|---|---|
| Coding Agent | Git, VS Code, RepoMapper |
| Research | Fetch, Wikipedia, Brave |
| Automation | Puppeteer, n8n, Cron |
| Personal AI OS | Filesystem, Shell, Memory |
| Data Analysis | PostgreSQL, Excel, Open-Meteo |
Legend
Understanding server capabilities and risks:
Hosting:
- 🏠 Local - Runs on your local machine
- ☁️ Cloud - Remote service / API
Risk Level:
- 🟢 Safe - Read-only, no system modifications
- 🟡 Moderate - Write access, can modify data
- 🔴 High Risk - Can execute commands or critical OS operations
Pricing:
- 🆓 Free - No cost, no API key required
- 🔑 Free (Key) - Free but requires API key registration
- 💰 Freemium - Free tier available with paid upgrades
- 💲 Paid - Requires payment
Security Model
MCP servers follow the principle of least privilege and user-controlled access:
Security Principles:
- ✅ Explicit capability exposure - Tools are declared upfront
- ✅ User-approved access - Manual approval for sensitive operations
- ✅ Sandboxed execution - Isolated from system when possible
- ✅ Auditable tool calls - All actions are logged and traceable
🔴 Exercise Caution With:
Servers that provide:
- Shell execution - Can run arbitrary commands
- Filesystem write access - Can modify/delete files
- Network access - Can make external requests
- System control - Can change OS settings
Always review server code and permissions before use.
Offline & Regional Usage
For air-gapped or offline environments:
- Prioritize Local (🏠) servers (e.g., Filesystem, SQLite).
- Avoid Cloud (☁️) servers that require internet access.
- Use local LLMs (e.g., via Ollama) combined with local MCP servers for a fully offline stack.
Official Resources
- MCP Documentation - Official documentation
- MCP Specification - Technical specification
- TypeScript SDK - Official TypeScript SDK
- Python SDK - Official Python SDK
- Official Servers - Reference implementations
MCP Servers
Free Servers
Servers that are free to use, with no API keys or optional free registration.
📚 Knowledge & Information
- Wikipedia 🆓 🏠 - Search and access Wikipedia articles
- Context Awesome 🆓 ☁️ - Query 8,500+ curated awesome lists
- REST Countries 🆓 ☁️ 🟢 - Comprehensive country data
☁️ Weather & Environment
- Open-Meteo Weather 🆓 ☁️ 🟢 - Global weather data and forecasts
- Weather.gov 🆓 ☁️ 🟢 - US weather data
🛠️ Tooling & Ecosystem
- MCP Inspector 🆓 🏠 - Official debugger for testing MCP servers
- Smithery 🆓 ☁️ - Discovery and installation registry for MCP servers
- Glama 🆓 ☁️ - AI workspace with integrated MCP directory
####💻 Developer Tools
🔍 Search & Data
- Fetch 🆓 ☁️ 🟢 - Web content fetching
- Brave Search 🔑 ☁️ 🟢 - Web search
- Google Search 🆓 ☁️ 🟢 - Google search results
- Statsnet 🆓 ☁️ 🟢 - Background check any company in the world: registration, executives, courts and finances. Remote:
https://statsnet.co/mcp
🧠 AI & Productivity
- Sequential Thinking 🆓 🏠 - Problem-solving through thought sequences
Paid/Freemium Servers
Servers with free tiers or that require paid API access.
☁️ Cloud Platforms
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AWS
- AWS Bedrock KB 💰 ☁️ - Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
- AWS CDK 💰 ☁️ - AWS Cloud Development Kit
- AWS Documentation 💰 ☁️ 🟢 - AWS docs access
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Azure
- Azure DevOps 💰 ☁️ - Azure DevOps integration
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Google Cloud
- Google Drive 💰 ☁️ 🟡 - Google Drive access
- Google Maps 💰 ☁️ 🟢 - Maps and location services
🗄️ Databases
- BigQuery 💰 ☁️ 🟢 - Google BigQuery access
- MongoDB 💰 ☁️ 🟡 - MongoDB database access
- PostgreSQL 🆓 🏠 🟡 - PostgreSQL database access
- SQLite 🆓 🏠 🟡 - SQLite database access
- Supabase 💰 ☁️ 🟡 - Supabase platform integration
💬 Communication & Collaboration
- Basecamp 💰 ☁️ - Basecamp project management
- Discord 💰 ☁️ 🟡 - Discord server management
- Gmail 💰 ☁️ 🟡 - Gmail email access
- Slack 💰 ☁️ 🟡 - Slack workspace integration
💰 Finance & Business
- Stripe 💲 ☁️ - Stripe payments API
- Chargebee 💲 ☁️ - Subscription management
- PayPal 💲 ☁️ - PayPal integration
- Alpha Vantage 💰 ☁️ 🟢 - Financial market data
- NotFair 💰 ☁️ 🟡 - Google Ads MCP server: diagnose performance, recommend optimizations, execute approved changes via the Google Ads API
🔍 Search & Analytics
- Exa 💰 ☁️ 🟢 - AI-powered search
- Perplexity 💰 ☁️ 🟢 - AI search and answers
- Fathom Analytics 💰 ☁️ 🟢 - Privacy-focused analytics
- Robot Speed 💰 ☁️ 🟡 🟢 - SEO / AI visibility MCP. Free tools at
https://www.robot-speed.com/api/mcp/free; full remote at/api/mcp.
🎨 Creative & Media
- Spotify 💰 ☁️ - Spotify music streaming
- YouTube 💰 ☁️ - YouTube video platform
- DALL-E 💲 ☁️ - AI image generation
- Kleap 💰 ☁️ 🟡 🟢 - No-code website builder MCP (remote
https://kleap.co/api/mcp). Create, edit, and publish live sites from an AI agent. - Midjourney 💲 ☁️ - AI image generation
- RunAPI MCP 💲 ☁️ - Create image, video, music/audio, text-to-speech, and other model API jobs through RunAPI.
📊 Data & Analytics
- Snowflake 💲 ☁️ - Cloud data platform
- dbt 💰 🏠/☁️ - Data transformation
- Tableau 💲 ☁️ - Data visualization
- Amplitude 💲 ☁️ - Product analytics
🛠️ Development Tools
🌐 Web Services
- Airtable 💰 ☁️ 🟡 - Cloud database platform
🟢 Security
- 1Password 💲 🏠 🟢 - Password management
- Okta 💲 ☁️ - Identity management
- Auth0 💲 ☁️ - Authentication platform
Automation
Servers that enable workflow automation, browser automation, and task orchestration.
Browser Automation
- Agent QA 🔑 🏠 🔴 🟢 - Run natural-language web, Android, and iOS tests and inspect artifacts through MCP; source-available (FSL-1.1-ALv2), with no software fee for permitted use and separate model/browser/device provider costs.
- Playwright 🆓 🏠 🔴 - Official Microsoft Playwright MCP server for web automation
- Browserbase 💰 ☁️ 🔴 - Cloud browser automation with headless Chrome
- Puppeteer 🆓 🏠 🔴 - Browser automation for web scraping
- Browser-Use 🆓 🏠 🔴 - Browser automation in Docker with VNC
Workflow Automation
- n8n 💰 🏠/☁️ - Workflow automation platform
- Zapier 💰 ☁️ - Connect 5000+ apps and automate workflows
- Make.com 💰 ☁️ - Visual automation platform
- Apple Shortcuts 🆓 🏠 - macOS automation integration
Task Automation
- Cron 🆓 🏠 🔴 - Scheduled task execution
- Home Assistant 🆓 🏠 🟡 - Control smart home devices
- IFTTT 💰 ☁️ - If-This-Then-That automation
OS Control
Servers that provide system-level control and OS integration capabilities.
System Operations
- Filesystem 🆓 🏠 🟡 🔴 - Secure file operations with access controls
- Shell 🆓 🏠 🔴 - Execute shell commands securely
- Windows PowerShell 🆓 🏠 🔴 - Windows system control
- macOS AppleScript 🆓 🏠 🔴 - macOS automation and control
Desktop Integration
- Apple Reminders 🆓 🏠 🟡 - Interact with Apple Reminders on macOS
- System Monitor 🆓 🏠 🟢 - CPU, memory, disk, network monitoring
RAG & Vector Databases
Servers for Retrieval-Augmented Generation and vector database integration.
Vector Databases
- Pinecone 💰 ☁️ 🟡 - Managed vector database
- Weaviate 🆓 🏠/☁️ 🟡 - Open-source vector search engine
- Qdrant 🆓 🏠 🟡 - Vector similarity search engine
- Milvus 🆓 ☁️ 🟡 - Cloud-native vector database
- Chroma 🆓 🏠 🟡 - AI-native open-source embedding database
RAG Platforms
- LlamaIndex 🆓 🏠 - Data framework for LLM applications
- LangChain 🆓 🏠 - Build LLM applications
- Haystack 🆓 🏠 - End-to-end NLP framework
Knowledge Management
- Memory 🆓 🏠 🟡 - Knowledge graph-based persistent memory
- Obsidian 💰 🏠 🟡 - Personal knowledge base
- Notion 💰 ☁️ 🟡 - Connected workspace
Embedding Services
- OpenAI Embeddings 💲 ☁️ - Text embedding API
- Cohere Embeddings 💰 ☁️ - Multilingual embeddings
Observability & Monitoring
Servers for application monitoring, logging, tracing, and performance analysis.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
- Datadog 💰 ☁️ - Full-stack observability platform
- New Relic 💰 ☁️ - Performance monitoring
- Dynatrace 💲 ☁️ - Software intelligence platform
Logging & Log Analytics
- Grafana Loki 🆓 🏠/☁️ 🟢 - Log aggregation system
- Elasticsearch 💰 ☁️ - Search and analytics engine
- Logfire 💰 ☁️ - OpenTelemetry traces and metrics
Metrics & Monitoring
- Prometheus 🆓 🏠 🟢 - Monitoring system and time series database
- Grafana 🆓 🏠/☁️ - Observability and data visualization
- VictoriaMetrics 🆓 🏠 - Time series database
- Netdata 🆓 🏠 🟢 - Real-time performance monitoring
Error Tracking
- Sentry 💰 ☁️ - Error tracking and performance monitoring
- Rollbar 💰 ☁️ - Error monitoring
- Bugsnag 💰 ☁️ - Error monitoring and reporting
Distributed Tracing
- Jaeger 🆓 🏠/☁️ - End-to-end distributed tracing
- Zipkin 🆓 🏠/☁️ - Distributed tracing system
- OpenTelemetry 🆓 🏠 - Observability framework
Infrastructure Monitoring
- Zabbix 🆓 🏠/☁️ - Enterprise monitoring solution
- Kubernetes 💰 ☁️ - Container orchestration monitoring
Real-World Projects
Production-ready MCP servers and reference implementations from real-world use cases.
Code Analysis & Development
- CodeGraph Context 🆓 🏠 - Index code into graph database for AI context
- VS Code MCP 🆓 🏠 - Read directory structure, lint problems, edit files
- RepoMapper 🆓 🏠 🟢 - Dynamic repository mapping for AI
- Code Assistant 🆓 🏠 🔴 - Multi-project coding agent
Data Processing
- Data Exploration 🆓 🏠 - Autonomous CSV data analysis
- Excel MCP 🆓 🏠 🟡 - Excel manipulation and analysis
- dbt Docs 🆓 🏠 🟢 - dbt project metadata and lineage
Content & Media
- YouTube Transcript 🆓 ☁️ 🟢 - Fetch YouTube subtitles for AI
- Podcast Search 💰 ☁️ 🟢 - Search 1M+ hours of podcasts
Security & DevOps
- Inspektor Gadget 🆓 🏠 🔴 - Container debugging with eBPF
- BloodHound MCP 🆓 🏠 - Active Directory attack path analysis
Multi-Agent Systems
- Agent MCP 🆓 🏠 - Framework for multi-agent coordination
- Roundtable 🆓 🏠 - Unify multiple AI coding assistants
- Owlex 🆓 🏠 - Query multiple CLI agents in parallel
Experimental & Research
Early-stage or experimental servers not yet production-ready.
Note: These servers are actively developed but may have incomplete features, breaking changes, or stability issues. Use with caution in production environments.
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Hyperconsciousness 🆓 🏠 🟡 🧪 - Developer-alpha MCP server for encrypted, append-only knowledge with scoped, expiring grants; build from source.
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Submit your experimental MCP server via PR!
Agent Patterns
Strategic patterns for building reliable agents:
- Planner-Executor: One agent creates a plan, another executes steps (uses Sequential Thinking).
- Tool-Only: Simple agent that just calls tools (e.g., "Get weather").
- Memory-Backed: Agent that persists state across sessions using Memory or PostgreSQL.
- Multi-Agent Swarm: Specialized agents collaborating (e.g., Research Agent + Writer Agent + Editor Agent).
Evaluation & Benchmarks
When choosing servers, consider:
- Latency: Local (🏠) is faster than Cloud (☁️).
- Capability: Does it support all operations you need?
- Risk: Check the risk level (🟢/🟡/🔴).
- Cost: 🆓 vs 💰.
Reference Architectures
Common patterns for combining MCP servers into powerful AI systems.
🖥️ Local AI OS
Components: Claude Desktop + Filesystem + Shell + Browser Automation
Use Case: Complete local system control and automation
🧠 RAG System
Components: Vector DB (Chroma/Qdrant) + Memory MCP + Document Loaders
Use Case: Intelligent document Q&A and knowledge retrieval
👨💻 Coding Agent
Components: Git + RepoMapper + VS Code MCP + GitHub
Use Case: Autonomous code analysis, refactoring, and PR management
🏠 Home Automation Agent
Components: Home Assistant + Cron + Slack + OpenAI
Use Case: Smart home control, energy monitoring, and family notifications
🤖 Automation Agent
Components: Browser Automation + n8n + Cron + Slack
Use Case: End-to-end workflow automation and notifications
🏢 Enterprise Agent
Components: Observability Stack + IAM + Cloud MCPs + Databases
Use Case: Production monitoring, access control, and data integration
🔬 Research Agent
Components: ArXiv + Semantic Scholar + RAG + Memory
Use Case: Academic research, literature review, and citation management
Templates & Starters
Reusable templates and starter projects for building MCP servers.
- TypeScript MCP Template - Official TypeScript starter
- Python MCP Template - Official Python starter
- Dockerized MCP Example - Container-based MCP deployment
Contributing: Have a useful template? Submit a PR!
Clients
Applications and tools that support MCP:
- Claude Desktop - Anthropic's desktop AI assistant
- Cline - VS Code AI coding assistant
- Zed - Collaborative code editor with AI
- Cursor - AI-powered code editor
- Continue - Open-source AI code assistant
Frameworks & SDKs
Build your own MCP servers:
- TypeScript SDK - Official TypeScript implementation
- Python SDK - Official Python implementation
- FastMCP - Fast MCP server framework (Python)
- .NET SDK - .NET implementation
Tutorials & Guides
- Building Your First MCP Server - Official quickstart guide
- MCP Server Examples - Reference implementations
- MCP Best Practices - Development guidelines
- MCP Security Guide - Security considerations
Community
- Discord - Official MCP Discord community
- GitHub Discussions - Technical discussions
- Reddit - Community discussions
- Twitter - Updates and announcements
Contributing
Contributions welcome! Please read the contribution guidelines first.
Looking for where to start? Check issues labeled "good first issue" in the server repositories!
How to Submit
- Fork this repository
- Add your MCP server to the appropriate category
- Follow the format:
- [Name](link) 🆓/💰 🏠/☁️ - Brief description - Ensure it's alphabetically ordered within the category
- Include appropriate legend icons
- Submit a Pull Request
Submission Criteria
- ✅ Must be a working MCP server
- ✅ Must have clear documentation
- ✅ Must be actively maintained (🟢 or 🟡)
- ✅ Must specify pricing model
- ✅ Must follow MCP specification
- ✅ Must include legend tags
Maintenance Status
When submitting, please indicate:
- 🟢 Active - Updated in last 3 months
- 🟡 Maintained - Updated in last year
- 🔴 Archived - No longer maintained
We periodically review and may move stale servers to an archived section.
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