MCP research notes

What is it?

A: It’s effectively just OpenAPI for LLMs._

A: It is sometimes described as “the USB-C port for AI”, providing a uniform way to connect LLMs to resources they can use.

Specification

The MCP specification.

Introduction

• MCP: an in-depth introduction https://www.speakeasy.com/mcp/mcp-tutorial https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43972334

Evolution

The spec for the MCP transport is changing from SSE to Streamable HTTP.

See also

• https://github.com/stuzero/pg-mcp-server/issues/13

• https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/issues/405

Gallery

• https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers

Articles

• What we learned when converting complex OpenAPI specs to MCP servers https://www.stainless.com/blog/what-we-learned-converting-complex-openapi-specs-to-mcp-servers

Package registries

• https://mcp.so/

• https://mcphub.tools/

• https://smithery.ai/

• https://glama.ai/mcp/servers

• https://www.mcpserverfinder.com/

• https://www.pulsemcp.com/

• All: MCP Registry Registry MCP Server

• https://github.com/chatmcp/mcpso

• https://mcpservers.org/

Clients

• Using an MCP client

• Example Clients

• https://github.com/crate/crate-clients-tools/issues/247

Servers

• MCP example servers

Frameworks

• https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk

• https://github.com/tadata-org/fastapi_mcp

• https://github.com/logiscape/mcp-sdk-php

Databases

• PostgreSQL - Read-only database access with schema inspection, see @modelcontextprotocol/server-postgres.

• DBHub - Universal database MCP server connecting to MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, DuckDB and etc.

• JDBC - Connect to any JDBC-compatible database and query, insert, update, delete, and more. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, sqllite and more.

• https://github.com/stuzero/pg-mcp (discuss)

• https://github.com/runekaagaard/mcp-alchemy

• https://github.com/OpenLinkSoftware/mcp-sqlalchemy-server

• https://github.com/googleapis/genai-toolbox

Copilots

• https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-13-agent-mode-mcp-and-next-edit-suggestions-come-to-github-copilot-in-visual-studio-17-14/#mcp-support

• https://github.com/VikashLoomba/copilot-mcp

Docs and Knowledge

• https://mcp.so/server/mcp-documentation-server/mahawi1992

• https://mcp.so/server/mcp-documentation-server/DotNaos

• Mastra MCP Documentation Server

  • https://mastra.ai/blog/introducing-mastra-mcp

  • https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra/tree/main/packages/mcp-docs-server

• https://github.com/sammcj/mcp-package-docs

• https://github.com/SubaashNair/documentation-mcp-server

• https://mintlify.com/blog/generate-mcp-servers-for-your-docs

• https://mintlify.com/blog/simplifying-docs-with-llms-txt

• https://llmstxt.org/

• https://github.com/mrjoshuak/godoc-mcp

• https://github.com/jonathanfischer97/juliadoc-mcp

• https://github.com/dazeb/markdown-downloader

Others

• https://github.com/jjsantos01/qgis_mcp

• https://github.com/ahujasid/blender-mcp

• https://github.com/Simon-Kansara/ableton-live-mcp-server

• https://github.com/ihrpr/mcp-server-jupyter

• https://github.com/fusedio/fused-mcp

• https://pypi.org/project/mcp-atlassian/

• https://pypi.org/project/mcp-server-fetch/

• https://mcp.so/server/mcp-installer

• pypi-search

• https://github.com/nerding-io/n8n-nodes-mcp

• https://github.com/opensumi/core

• https://github.com/awslabs/mcp

• https://github.com/Upsonic/Upsonic

• https://github.com/anaisbetts/mcp-installer

• https://github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go

• https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector

• https://github.com/lastmile-ai/mcp-agent

  mcp-agent is a simple, composable framework to build agents using Model Context Protocol. This one also looks interesting, including something about marimo.

• https://github.com/drillan/sphinx-mcp-test

• https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server

• https://github.com/varunneal/spotify-mcp

• https://github.com/BrowserMCP/mcp

• https://github.com/TuanKiri/weather-mcp-server

• https://github.com/mkummer225/google-sheets-mcp

• https://github.com/LaurieWired/GhidraMCP (discuss)

• https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp (discuss)

• https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/mcp/ (discuss)

• https://github.com/janwilmake/openapi-mcp-server

• https://gitmcp.io/

• https://github.com/heltonteixeira/ragdocs

• https://github.com/microsoft/semanticworkbench/tree/main/mcp-servers

• https://github.com/JetBrains/mcp-jetbrains

Composition

• https://github.com/themanojdesai/python-a2a

• https://github.com/Klavis-AI/klavis

• https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces

• https://github.com/mannaandpoem/OpenManus

• https://github.com/OpenManus/OpenManus-RL

• https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands