MCP Servers — Curated List

Reference list of 40 tested MCP servers organized by category, with notes on use cases.

Last updated: 2026-04-12

Overview

Curated by @eng_khairallah1 from testing 100+ servers. These are the ones worth actually installing. See model-context-protocol for what MCP is and starter pack recommendations.


Search & Web Access

#ServerNotes
01Tavily MCPSearch built for AI agents — returns clean, structured, LLM-ready data (not blue links). Four tools: search, extract, crawl, site-map. Best general-purpose agent search.
02Brave Search MCPBrave’s independent index; good when you want non-Google-dominated results. Free tier available.
03Firecrawl MCPTurn any website into LLM-ready data; handles JS-rendered sites. Essential for web content processing workflows.
04Fetch MCP (Official Anthropic)Simple, reliable URL fetching. Use when you need a specific URL, not full crawling overhead.

File System & Local Data

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05Filesystem MCP (Official Anthropic)Read/write/create/move/search local files. Scoped to specific directories. Install this first.
06SQLite MCP (Official Anthropic)Natural language → SQL → results. Perfect for local data analysis.
07PostgreSQL MCPConnect to Postgres; read-only by default, optional write access.
08Excel MCP ServerManipulate Excel files without Excel installed. Useful for report generation pipelines.
09markdownify-mcpConvert PDFs, images, audio into clean Markdown. Feed any document format into AI workflows.

Developer Tools

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10GitHub MCP (Official Anthropic)Full GitHub: repos, issues, PRs, code search, commits. Essential for AI-assisted dev.
11Git MCPDirect Git operations (not GitHub API). Works with any repo.
12Context7Injects current library docs into context. Eliminates hallucinated APIs. Add “use context7” to any prompt. Covers Next.js, React, Supabase, MongoDB, thousands more.
13MCP PlaywrightReal browser automation: navigate, click, fill forms, screenshot, scrape.
14Docker MCPStart/stop/inspect containers. Useful for deployment and environment workflows.
15Sentry MCPPull error reports, analyze stack traces, identify production error patterns through Claude.
16Codebase Memory MCPConverts codebase into a persistent knowledge graph. Claude remembers project structure and patterns across sessions.

Productivity & Communication

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17Google Drive MCPRead/write Google Drive files. Bridges Claude and cloud documents.
18Slack MCPRead messages, search, post to channels, send DMs. Enables Slack-based automations.
19Google Calendar MCPFull calendar CRUD. Build scheduling automations and daily briefings.
20Gmail MCPRead/send/search/organize email. Build triage systems and inbox automations.
21Notion MCPRead/write Notion pages and databases. Sync Notion with other tools.
22Linear MCPManage Linear issues and projects. Create tickets, update status, track progress.
23Obsidian MCPConnect Claude to an Obsidian vault. Read notes, search knowledge base, create new notes.

Data & Analytics

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24Snowflake MCPNatural language → SQL against Snowflake. Enterprise-grade data access.
25BigQuery MCPConnect to Google BigQuery for large-scale data analysis.
26Supabase MCPFull Supabase integration: database, auth, storage.
27MongoDB MCPConnect to MongoDB. Query collections and aggregate data.

AI & Models

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28ElevenLabs MCPGenerate speech from text. Add voice output to AI pipelines.
29Hugging Face MCPAccess HF models and datasets. Search hub, download models, run inference.
30Replicate MCPRun open-source AI models: image gen, video, audio transcription.

Infrastructure & DevOps

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31AWS MCPManage EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch through Claude.
32Cloudflare MCPManage Workers, KV, R2, DNS. Deploy edge functions.
33Kubernetes MCPList pods, check logs, scale deployments. Kubernetes at conversation speed.
34Vercel MCPManage Vercel deployments, domains, environment variables.

Specialized & Utility

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35Puppeteer MCP (Official Anthropic)Headless browser automation. Lighter than Playwright for simpler needs.
36Time MCPCurrent time and timezone operations. Essential for scheduling automations.
37Memory MCP (Official Anthropic)Persistent key-value memory across conversations. Simplest way to add long-term memory.
38Task Master AIFeed a PRD, get structured tasks with dependencies. Agent executes them in sequence.
39fastmcpBuild custom MCP servers in minimal Python. Use when nothing existing fits.
40MCPHubDashboard to manage multiple MCP servers. Essential once you have 5+ running.

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