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Featured Tools
High-confidence tools highlighted by moderation and trust filters for production-focused teams.
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@upstash/context7-mcp
MCP server for Context7
Evidence profile available
signals: sources 2, stars 52750
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mcp-use
Opinionated MCP Framework for TypeScript (@modelcontextprotocol/sdk compatible) - Build MCP Agents, Clients and Servers with support for ChatGPT Apps, Code Mode, OAuth, Notifications, Sampling, Observability and more.
Evidence profile available
signals: sources 2, stars 9773
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fastmcp
🚀 The fast, Pythonic way to build MCP servers and clients.
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signals: sources 1, stars 24549
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firecrawl-mcp-server
🔥 Official Firecrawl MCP Server - Adds powerful web scraping and search to Cursor, Claude and any other LLM clients.
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signals: sources 1, stars 6058
Tool directory
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30 tools visible
Search and filter MCP tools by category to find the right building blocks for your stack.
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firecrawl-mcp-server
🔥 Official Firecrawl MCP Server - Adds powerful web scraping and search to Cursor, Claude and any other LLM clients.
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@upstash/context7-mcp
MCP server for Context7
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mcp-use
Opinionated MCP Framework for TypeScript (@modelcontextprotocol/sdk compatible) - Build MCP Agents, Clients and Servers with support for ChatGPT Apps, Code Mode, OAuth, Notifications, Sampling, Observability and more.
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exa-mcp-server
Exa MCP for web search and web crawling!
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fastmcp
🚀 The fast, Pythonic way to build MCP servers and clients.
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mongodb-mcp-server
MongoDB Model Context Protocol Server
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@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem
MCP server for filesystem access
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@modelcontextprotocol/sdk
Model Context Protocol implementation for TypeScript
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browserbase/mcp-server-browserbase
Automate browser interactions in the cloud (e.g. web navigation, data extraction, form filling, and more)
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ezyang/codemcp
Coding agent with basic read, write and command line tools.
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operative_sh/web-eval-agent
An MCP Server that autonomously debugs web applications with browser-use browser agents
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eat-pray-ai/yutu
A fully functional MCP server and CLI for YouTube to automate YouTube operation
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juehang/vscode-mcp-server
A MCP Server that allows AI such as Claude to read from the directory structure in a VS Code workspace, see problems picked up by linter(s) and the language server, read code files, and make edits.
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recursechat/mcp-server-apple-shortcuts
An MCP Server Integration with Apple Shortcuts
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automatalabs/mcp-server-playwright
An MCP server for browser automation using Playwright
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tumf/mcp-shell-server
A secure shell command execution server implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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hanzili/comet-mcp
Connect to Perplexity Comet browser for agentic web browsing, deep research, and real-time task monitoring.
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cswkim/discogs-mcp-server
MCP server to interact with the Discogs API
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hannesrudolph/imessage-query-fastmcp-mcp-server
An MCP server that provides safe access to your iMessage database through Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling LLMs to query and analyze iMessage conversations with proper phone number validation and attachment handling
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8enSmith/mcp-open-library
A MCP server for the Open Library API that enables AI assistants to search for book information.
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kagan-sh/kagan
](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/kagan-sh/kagan) - AI-powered Kanban TUI and MCP server for autonomous development workflows. Orchestrates 14 coding agents across task tracking, isolated git worktrees, review, and merge.
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hono-mcp-server-sse-transport
Server-Sent Events transport for Hono and Model Context Protocol
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religa/multi-mcp
Parallel multi-model code review, security analysis, and AI debate with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Orchestrates multiple LLMs for compare, consensus, and OWASP Top 10 security checks.
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sim-xia/skill-cortex-server
An MCP server that enable all IDEs/CLIs to access Claude Code Skills capabilities.
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hardik-id/azure-resource-graph-mcp-server
/ - A Model Context Protocol server for querying and analyzing Azure resources at scale using Azure Resource Graph, enabling AI assistants to explore and monitor Azure infrastructure.
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olostep/olostep-mcp-server
Web scraping, crawling, and search API. Extract content in Markdown/JSON, batch process 10k URLs, and get AI-powered answers with citations.
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mrostamii/rancher-mcp-server
](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/mrostamii/rancher-mcp-server) / - MCP server for the Rancher ecosystem with multi-cluster Kubernetes operations, Harvester HCI management (VMs, storage, networks), and Fleet GitOps tooling.
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spyrae/claude-concilium
Multi-agent AI consultation framework for Claude Code. Three MCP servers wrapping CLI tools (Codex, Gemini, Qwen) for parallel code review and problem-solving with fallback chains and error detection. Includes ready-to-use Claude Code skill.
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x51xxx/copilot-mcp-server
MCP server that connects your IDE or AI assistant to GitHub Copilot CLI for code analysis, review, and batch processing
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bighippoman/intercept-mcp
](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/bighippoman/intercept-mcp) - Multi-tier fallback chain for fetching web content as clean markdown. Handles tweets, YouTube, arXiv, PDFs, and regular pages with 9 fallback strategies.
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Reusable capability modules
Skills
Reusable AI capabilities for research, coding, docs, and operations that can be composed into workflows.
intermediate
API Integration Mapping
Use MCP-enabled tooling to handle api integration mapping tasks with repeatable inputs and outputs. Built from observed capabilities in @upstash/context7-mcp, fastmcp, mcp-use.
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Browser Research Automation
Use MCP-enabled tooling to handle browser research automation tasks with repeatable inputs and outputs. Built from observed capabilities in firecrawl-mcp-server, exa-mcp-server, google_workspace_mcp.
Blueprints
Workflows
Outcome-focused playbooks combining MCP tools and skills into repeatable delivery systems.
MCP Code Review Loop
A practical review loop that uses MCP-enabled context retrieval and automation checks before and after pull request feedback.
@upstash/context7-mcpmcp-useexecuteautomation/playwright-mcp-server
MCP Documentation Generator
A documentation pipeline that gathers implementation context and updates team docs consistently.
@notionhq/notion-mcp-servergoogle_workspace_mcp@upstash/context7-mcp
MCP Research Automation
A research workflow combining web discovery, extraction, and context synthesis for developer investigations.
firecrawl-mcp-serverexa-mcp-server@upstash/context7-mcp
MCP AI Agent Pipeline
A baseline pipeline for composing MCP tools into reliable multi-step agent execution.
mcp-agentmcp-usefastmcp
Programmatic clusters
Topic Hubs
Curated entry points grouped by real MCP ecosystem signals, not autogenerated facet noise.
Coding
Coding intent hub with 35 tools, 1 workflows, 18 guides and cross-entity pathways for implementation decisions.
35 tools · 1 workflows
Research
Research intent hub with 19 tools, 1 workflows, 4 guides, 1 skills and cross-entity pathways for implementation decisions.
19 tools · 1 workflows
Data Infra
Data Infra intent hub with 23 tools, 1 workflows, 8 guides and cross-entity pathways for implementation decisions.
23 tools · 1 workflows
Productivity Automation
Productivity Automation intent hub with 14 tools, 1 workflows, 5 guides, 1 skills and cross-entity pathways for implementation decisions.
14 tools · 1 workflows
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