awesome-mcp-servers

Working MCP servers for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, and other MCP-compatible clients in 2026, each labelled with who publishes it, where it runs, and what it can change.

Maintained by Brethof AI. Companion to awesome-llms-txt and awesome-ai-coding-agents.

Why this list exists

The Model Context Protocol (spec) lets LLM clients call out to external tools and data sources through a uniform interface. By 2026 there are hundreds of MCP servers, and many hide what they actually do. This list is a catalog: it takes every submission that is

• Real — there is code to read or install, or a documented hosted endpoint that answers.
• Working — it connects from an MCP client such as Claude Desktop or Claude Code.
• Honest — what it says it does holds up.
• In scope — it is an MCP server.

New, small, and single-vendor servers are welcome. Instead of filtering by taste, we label every entry: who publishes it, where it runs, what it can change, whether it needs a paid account, and whether it takes crypto payment. Licences are named when they are not OSI open source, or when there is no public source at all.

We decline only:

1. Nothing real to point at — no code and no documented, reachable endpoint.
2. Misleading claims we can’t label around, and scams.
3. Off-topic submissions and spam.

Entries that stop working are removed by our weekly check. Where several builds of the same server exist, we link the most-recently-maintained official one; if forks compete, the most active fork wins.

Legend

• 🏷️ official — published by the originating company (Anthropic, Stripe, Atlassian, etc.) or the project itself.
• 🏷️ community — third-party server, not published by the company or project it connects to.
• 🏷️ brethof — maintained by Brethof AI.
• 🛡️ read-only — server cannot mutate anything in the connected system.
• ⚠️ mutating — server can write, send, or modify state. Authorise with care.
• 🔒 local — runs entirely on your machine, no remote calls during use.
• ☁️ hosted — runs on the vendor’s servers; you connect to their endpoint.
• 💰 paid — needs a paid account (a time-limited trial doesn’t count as free).
• 🪙 crypto — takes payment in cryptocurrency, for example x402, where your AI client pays per call from a wallet. Crypto is one payment option among others; the label shows it so you can decide what the client may spend.
• 🆕 new — listed in the last 60 days.

Contents

• Reference servers (MCP steering group) (7)
• Files, Filesystem & Local Data (1)
• Web Search & Browsing (10)
• Browser Automation (4)
• Source Control (3)