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MCP servers worth installing

Real Model Context Protocol servers, not boilerplate echoers. Each entry has install steps that actually work, and at least one person who used it for real work.

MCP servers worth installing

49 curated, receipts-backed across 16 categories.

Official Anthropic Servers · 6

everything

Demo server exercising every MCP feature. Useful for testing clients.

official

fetch

Fetch a single URL and return its content as Markdown for the model.

officialread-only

filesystem

Read, write, and search files within explicitly-allowed directories.

officialmutatinglocal

git

Read repository state, view diffs, run common git commands.

officialmutatinglocal

memory

Reference knowledge-graph memory server. Persistent JSON-graph store.

officialmutatinglocal

sequentialthinking

Helper that exposes a structured "think step by step" planning tool.

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Files, Filesystem & Local Data · 1

obsidian

Read and edit notes in your Obsidian vault.

communitymutatinglocal

Web Search & Browsing · 5

duckduckgo

No-tracking search via DuckDuckGo.

communityread-only

exa

Exa neural-search API; semantic + similarity search over the web.

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firecrawl

Crawl + scrape websites and extract structured data.

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perplexity

Perplexity Sonar models for grounded web answers.

communityread-only

tavily

Tavily's research-optimised search API for agents.

officialread-only

Browser Automation · 2

browser-use

Vision + DOM-graph hybrid for resilient browser automation.

communitymutating

playwright

Microsoft's official Playwright MCP. Multi-browser, accessibility-tree snapshots designed for agent loops.

officialmutating

Source Control · 1

gitea

Self-hosted Gitea instances; full repo + issue + PR control.

officialmutating

Issue Trackers & Project Management · 4

asana

Tasks, projects, sections, comments via the Asana API.

communitymutating

atlassian

First-party Jira + Confluence MCP from Atlassian.

officialmutating

linear

Read and modify Linear issues, projects, cycles, comments.

communitymutating

trello

Trello board, list, and card operations.

communitymutating

Communication · 3

discord

Send, search, and moderate Discord messages.

communitymutating

gmail

Read, send, and search Gmail. Requires Google OAuth setup.

communitymutating

telegram

Send and read messages via Telegram bots.

communitymutating

Relational Databases · 3

clickhouse

ClickHouse analytics queries with first-party SQL safety guardrails.

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mysql

MySQL/MariaDB read + write with safe-mode toggle.

communitymutating

postgres-mcp

Crystal DBA's Postgres MCP with schema mutation and tuning advisors.

communitymutating

NoSQL & Document Databases · 2

mongodb

MongoDB query, aggregation, and CRUD.

officialmutating

neo4j

Neo4j Cypher query execution and schema introspection.

communitymutating

Vector & Memory Stores · 4

chroma

ChromaDB collections, similarity search, persistent embeddings.

officialmutatinglocal

pinecone

Pinecone managed vector search.

officialmutating

qdrant

Qdrant vector search and collection management.

officialmutating

weaviate

Weaviate hybrid (vector + keyword) retrieval.

officialmutating

Productivity & Notes · 4

airtable

Airtable bases, tables, records.

communitymutating

apple-notes

Read Apple Notes on macOS.

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google-calendar

Read and create calendar events.

communitymutating

notion

Notion's first-party MCP. Read, edit, search pages and databases.

officialmutating

Design & Creative · 1

blender-mcp

Drive Blender via Python — modify scenes, run renders, manage assets.

communitymutatinglocal

Operations & Infrastructure · 4

aws

Amazon-published MCPs covering AWS service catalog, Bedrock, S3, etc.

officialmutating

docker

Inspect, run, build, and remove containers via the local Docker daemon.

communitymutatinglocal

helm

Manage Helm releases against a Kubernetes cluster.

communitymutating

kubernetes

kubectl-equivalent operations on the configured cluster.

communitymutating

AI & ML Platforms · 3

huggingface

Use HuggingFace Spaces as MCP-callable tools.

communitymutating

lmstudio

LM Studio's built-in MCP host (since v0.3.17). Run local models as MCP tools.

officialmutatinglocal

ollama

Pull, run, and manage Ollama models locally.

communitymutatinglocal

Specialised / Vertical · 2

spotify

Spotify Web API: search, queue, playlists.

communitymutating

stripe

Stripe payments, customers, subscriptions, refunds. Includes safety rails for production keys.

officialmutating

Frameworks & SDKs for Building MCP Servers · 4

fastmcp

Originally-third-party Python framework that became the inspiration for the official `FastMCP` integration.

community

mcp-go

Go SDK for building MCP servers. Single-binary deployment friendly.

official

mcp-python

Reference Python SDK. Includes `FastMCP` for terse decorator-based servers.

official

mcp-typescript

Reference TypeScript / Node SDK. Powers most npm-distributed servers.

official

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