85 in-depth guides to the MCP servers people actually run — what each one does, the tools it exposes, the connection details you will need, the best AI model to drive it, and how to test it free in your browser before you trust it with a real credential.
Repositories, issues, errors and containers — the servers that let an agent read and act on the work itself.
GitHub MCP Server
Hosted endpoint
Drive GitHub repos, PRs and issues with an AI agent.
Read the guideGit MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Read history, stage and commit in a local repository.
Read the guideGitLab MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Review merge requests, read pipeline logs and search code from an MCP client.
Read the guideSentry MCP Server
Hosted endpoint
Triage issues, stack traces and releases from chat without opening ten browser tabs.
Read the guideDocker MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
List containers, inspect images and manage your Docker environment with AI.
Read the guideFilesystem MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Give an AI agent scoped read and write access to local files.
Read the guideContext7 MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Give your AI agent up-to-date, version-specific library docs.
Read the guidePlaywright MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Give AI models real browser control — navigate, click, fill forms and screenshot any page.
Read the guideChrome DevTools MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Let an agent open DevTools on a live page and debug it.
Read the guideEverything MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
The reference server that exercises every part of the MCP spec.
Read the guideHugging Face MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Search models, datasets and Spaces — and run Spaces as tools.
Read the guideDeepWiki MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Ask questions about any public GitHub repository and get answers grounded in its generated wiki.
Read the guideMicrosoft Learn MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Search and read official Microsoft and Azure documentation and code samples from a conversation.
Read the guidePostman MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Manage workspaces, collections, environments, mocks and API specs from a conversation.
Read the guideQuery your own data in plain language. Read-only modes and scoped credentials matter more here than anywhere else.
PostgreSQL MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Chat with any Postgres database using AI.
Read the guideSupabase MCP Server
Hosted endpoint
Manage Supabase projects, run SQL and inspect schemas with AI.
Read the guideNeon MCP Server
Hosted endpoint
Query serverless Postgres, manage branches and run migrations with AI.
Read the guideMongoDB MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Query collections, run aggregations and inspect schemas with natural language.
Read the guideRedis MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Query and manage Redis data structures in natural language.
Read the guideElasticsearch MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Search indices, read mappings and run query DSL with an AI agent.
Read the guideClickHouse MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Run analytical SQL over billions of rows in natural language.
Read the guideSnowflake MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Query the warehouse through Cortex Analyst, Search and Agents.
Read the guideNeo4j MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Ask questions of a graph database in Cypher, generated for you.
Read the guideOracle Database MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Query schemas, run SQL and inspect metadata on Oracle with an AI agent.
Read the guideRetrieval and recall — the servers an agent uses to remember things and to find them again by meaning.
Qdrant MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
A vector database as a semantic memory layer for your agent.
Read the guidePinecone MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Build and query Pinecone indexes without leaving the conversation.
Read the guideMemory MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
A local knowledge graph that gives an agent memory across sessions.
Read the guideSequential Thinking MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Give a model a scratchpad it can revise and branch mid-problem.
Read the guideGetting live information into a model. Everything here returns untrusted text, so keep it away from tools that can write or spend.
Exa MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Give an agent live web search and clean page reads — no API key to get started.
Read the guideTavily MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Search, extract and crawl the web for AI research agents via Tavily.
Read the guideBrave Search MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Give an AI agent live web and local search via the Brave Search API.
Read the guidePerplexity MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Get cited, web-grounded answers from an AI agent via Perplexity Sonar.
Read the guideFirecrawl MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Scrape, crawl and search the live web as structured markdown.
Read the guideApify MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Run thousands of ready-made scrapers as agent tools.
Read the guideFetch MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Fetch any URL and hand the model clean markdown instead of HTML.
Read the guideWikipedia MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Ground AI answers in verifiable Wikipedia articles — no API key needed.
Read the guideHacker News MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Search and read Hacker News stories, comments and users from an AI agent.
Read the guideOpenSEO MCP Server
Hosted endpoint
Keyword research, SERP data, rank tracking and Search Console metrics, from chat.
Read the guideAirbnb Search MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Search Airbnb listings and fetch details from an AI agent — no API key.
Read the guideKeyword, backlink and ranking data. Every call here bills against a plan quota, so constrain prompts with explicit numeric limits.
Semrush MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Pull keyword, domain and competitor data into an agent instead of exporting CSVs.
Read the guideAhrefs MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Backlink and ranking data an agent can query directly, without the export step.
Read the guideSE Ranking MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
A remote server that exposes both SEO and project data via one API.
Read the guideDeploys, clusters and observability. Start every one of these read-only before you widen the permissions.
AWS MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Query AWS docs, pricing and infrastructure through an AI agent.
Read the guideAzure MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Manage Azure resources across 50+ services in natural language.
Read the guideCloudflare MCP Server
Hosted endpoint
Drive Workers, DNS, R2, D1 and the rest of the Cloudflare API with AI.
Read the guideVercel MCP Server
Hosted endpoint
List deployments, read logs, manage env keys and roll back from natural language.
Read the guideNetlify MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Let an agent deploy, configure and debug a Netlify site.
Read the guideRender MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Create services, trigger deploys, read logs and metrics, and query Postgres on Render.
Read the guideKubernetes MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Inspect and operate a cluster through the Kubernetes API, not kubectl.
Read the guideTerraform MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Look up real provider and module docs before writing HCL.
Read the guideGrafana MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Query Prometheus and Loki, search dashboards, triage alerts in chat.
Read the guidePagerDuty MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Investigate incidents, check who is on call and read services and schedules from a conversation.
Read the guideWhere teams keep their plans and documents — the servers that give an agent the context behind the code.
Notion MCP Server
Hosted endpoint
Search, summarise and edit your Notion workspace with AI.
Read the guideLinear MCP Server
Hosted endpoint
Triage issues, run cycles and update your product backlog with AI.
Read the guideJira & Confluence MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Search Jira and Confluence, move tickets, and keep docs aligned with in-flight work — plus JSM, Bitbucket and Compass.
Read the guideAsana MCP Server
Hosted endpoint
Create tasks, triage projects, and summarise team workload from chat.
Read the guideMonday.com MCP Server
Hosted endpoint
Query boards, move items, and summarise work across your workspaces.
Read the guideAirtable MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Read and write records, build bases and draft automations in Airtable from a conversation.
Read the guideSlack MCP Server
Hosted endpoint
Search workspace, read threads, post updates and work with Slack from chat.
Read the guideFiles, templates and decks an agent can search, generate and export without opening the editor.
Figma MCP Server
Hosted endpoint
Read design files, inspect components and extract assets with an AI agent.
Read the guideCanva MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Find, generate and export Canva designs from a conversation.
Read the guideMiro MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Search boards, read and build diagrams, and handle comments on a Miro whiteboard.
Read the guideChatPPT MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Generate and edit PowerPoint decks from a topic, a brief, or an uploaded document
Read the guideRevenue and customer systems. These are the servers where a wrong write costs real money, so read-only keys are the default.
Stripe MCP Server
Hosted endpoint
Query customers, subscriptions and payments with an AI agent.
Read the guidePayPal MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Create invoices, capture orders, issue refunds and track disputes from an MCP client.
Read the guideSquare MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Query and act on Square payments, orders, customers and catalogue items from a conversation.
Read the guideHubSpot MCP Server
Hosted endpoint
Query CRM, deals and tickets — and draft follow-ups with full record context.
Read the guideSalesforce MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
Query CRM records, update pipeline, and draft outreach in natural language.
Read the guideIntercom MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Search conversations and contacts, read help articles and add internal notes in Intercom.
Read the guideZapier MCP Server
Runs locally (stdio)
List Zaps, inspect runs and trigger automations across thousands of apps.
Read the guidePostHog MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Ask product analytics questions and ship feature flags from chat.
Read the guideTikTok for Business MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Create campaigns, pull performance reports and manage TikTok Ads from an MCP client — no developer app required.
Read the guideEverything else with a full guide on the site.
Datadog MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Query metrics, logs, traces and monitors from a conversation instead of a dashboard.
Read the guideNew Relic MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Ask NRQL questions in plain English and get entity, alert and APM data back.
Read the guideHoneycomb MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Query high-cardinality traces and let an agent chase the outlier, not the average.
Read the guideAmplitude MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Ask product analytics questions — funnels, retention, segments — without building the chart.
Read the guideBox MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Search, read and organise enterprise content with an agent that respects Box permissions.
Read the guidePlanetScale MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Query branches, inspect schema and read performance insights on a serverless MySQL fleet.
Read the guideSanity MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Query and edit structured content with GROQ, on a CMS built to be read by machines.
Read the guideDataForSEO MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Raw SERP, keyword and backlink APIs priced per call, for agents that assemble their own analysis.
Read the guideWebflow MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Read and update CMS collections, pages and site structure without opening the designer.
Read the guideClay MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Enrich and research accounts and contacts from a conversation, across dozens of data sources.
Read the guideCashfree MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Query payments, orders, settlements and refunds on India’s payment rails.
Read the guideFewer servers beat more servers. Every tool you connect enters the model's tool list, and selection accuracy falls as that list grows. Two web-search servers connected at once is worse than one, because the model now has to guess which of two near-identical tools to call. Connect what the task needs and disconnect the rest.
The credential is the boundary. An MCP server does exactly what its token permits — nothing in the protocol prevents a destructive call. A read-only database user, a fine-grained GitHub token scoped to one repo, a Kubernetes context bound to a narrow role: these are real controls, and a polite instruction in a system prompt is not.
Anything that reads the web returns untrusted text. A scraped page or a fetched document can contain text written to look like an instruction to your agent. Keep web-reading servers separate from servers that can write, deploy or spend, and read the MCP security guide before combining them.
Test with your own credential first. Most problems show up in the first ten minutes: a missing scope, a tool the model never picks because its description is vague, a response too large for the context window. Run the server in MCP Agent Studio and watch the tool calls before you automate anything.
An MCP server is a program that exposes tools, resources and prompts over the Model Context Protocol so any compatible AI client can use them. The server owns the integration — the API calls, the auth, the data shaping — and the model just calls tools. That is why one Notion server works in Claude, Cursor, VS Code and a custom agent without being rewritten for each.
For coding work, the filesystem and GitHub servers cover most of it. For research, pick one web server — Exa, Tavily or Firecrawl — rather than all three, since overlapping tools make models choose worse. Beyond that, install the server for the system you actually spend your day in: Postgres, Linear, Notion or Slack.
A hosted server runs on the vendor's own infrastructure and you connect to a URL — 51 of the servers here work that way, usually with OAuth or a bearer token. A local server runs on your machine over stdio, typically launched with npx, uvx or docker. Local is the only option when the server needs your filesystem, your kubeconfig or a database that is not reachable from the internet.
The protocol gives an agent whatever the credential allows, so the credential is the security boundary. Use a scoped, read-only token first, prefer a staging or replica target, and watch the actual tool calls before widening access. Web-facing servers add prompt injection to the picture: scraped or fetched text can contain instructions aimed at your agent.
Open it in MCP Agent Studio, connect with your own credential and run a few real prompts against 60+ models. You see every tool call and result before anything is automated, which surfaces the common problems — a missing scope, a tool the model never picks, a response too large for the context window — in minutes rather than in production.
Any model with tool calling can drive any MCP server, but reliability varies a lot. Servers with many similarly named tools, or that need multi-step chains, separate strong models from weak ones quickly. Each guide here names a recommended model and says why, and you can compare models side by side on the same connection.
These are deep guides to the most-asked-about servers. To browse the full universe of MCP servers, check the registry — or try a ready-to-run agent template.
Social media management
Scheduling, publishing and media across social channels. Posts go live on real accounts, so start with a read-only key and preview before publishing.
Autoadify MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Schedule social posts and manage your media library from an AI agent.
Read the guideX (Twitter) MCP Server
Hosted endpoint · Official
Search posts, read profiles, track trends and publish to X from an MCP client.
Read the guide