# Awesome MCP DevTools [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge-flat.svg)](https://awesome.re) [![Subreddit subscribers](https://img.shields.io/reddit/subreddit-subscribers/modelcontextprotocol?style=flat&logo=reddit&label=subreddit)](https://www.reddit.com/r/modelcontextprotocol/) A curated list of developer tools, SDKs, libraries, utilities, and resources for working with **Model Context Protocol (MCP)** servers. ## Contents - [Awesome MCP DevTools ](#awesome-mcp-devtools-) - [Contents](#contents) - [Community](#community) - [Legend](#legend) - [SDKs](#sdks) - [JavaScript/TypeScript](#javascripttypescript) - [Python](#python) - [Java](#java) - [Go](#go) - [Rust](#rust) - [Kotlin](#kotlin) - [C#/.NET](#cnet) - [Scala](#scala) - [Dart](#dart) - [Ruby](#ruby) - [Elixir](#elixir) - [C/C++](#cc) - [Swift](#swift) - [Bash](#bash) - [Common Lisp](#common-lisp) - [Frameworks](#frameworks) - [Testing Tools](#testing-tools) - [Authorization Testing](#authorization-testing) - [Libraries](#libraries) - [Utilities](#utilities) - [Proxies and Gateways](#proxies-and-gateways) - [Development Tools](#development-tools) - [Hosting](#hosting) - [Templates](#templates) - [Resources](#resources) - [Tutorials](#tutorials) - [Related awesome lists:](#related-awesome-lists) --- ## Community * [r/modelcontextprotocol Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/modelcontextprotocol) ## Legend * 🎖️ official MCP resource * programming language * #️⃣ - C# Codebase * 〽️ – Scala codebase * ☕ - Java codebase * 🎯 - Dart codebase * 🏎️ – Go codebase * 🐍 – Python codebase * 💎 – Ruby codebase * 📇 – TypeScript codebase * 🔶 - Kotlin codebase * 🦀 – Rust codebase * 🌊 – C/C++ codebase * 🍎 – Swift codebase * 💧 – Elixir codebase * 👾 – Bash codebase * λ – Common Lisp codebase ## SDKs > Software Development Kits for MCP server development.

How are SDKs ordered?

SDKs are ordered by their popularity as determined by GitHub stars. If an SDK is part of a monorepo, it should have a name in the form of `github-owner/github-repo#project-name`. If an SDK is part of a monorepo, its popularity is counted as 0 stars.

### JavaScript/TypeScript - [QuantGeekDev/mcp-framework](https://github.com/QuantGeekDev/mcp-framework) 📇 - Fast and elegant TypeScript framework for building MCP servers - [wong2/LiteMCP](https://github.com/wong2/litemcp) 📇 - A high-level framework for building MCP servers in JavaScript/TypeScript - [ModelFetch](https://github.com/phuctm97/modelfetch) 📇 - A runtime-agnostic SDK to create and deploy MCP servers anywhere TypeScript/JavaScript runs - [ribeirogab/simple-mcp](https://github.com/ribeirogab/simple-mcp) 📇 - A simple TypeScript library for creating MCP servers - [firebase/genkit#mcp](https://github.com/firebase/genkit/tree/main/js/plugins/mcp) 📇 – Provides integration between [Genkit](https://github.com/firebase/genkit/tree/main) and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) - [MCPcat](https://github.com/mcpcat/mcpcat-typescript-sdk) 📇 - User analytics, session tracking, and live debugging for MCPs - [Mastra AI](https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra) 📇 - Mastra is a Typescript-based AI agent framework that can be used to author MCP servers. - [NeuroLink](https://github.com/juspay/neurolink) 📇 - TypeScript-first multi-provider AI SDK from Juspay with built-in MCP client support, 13 major AI providers and 100+ models, streaming, tool calling, and production-grade agent orchestration. ### Python - [FastMCP](https://github.com/jlowin/fastmcp) 🐍 - A high-level framework for building MCP servers in Python - [mcp-use](https://github.com/mcp-use/mcp-use) 🐍 - Open source python library to very easily connect any LLM to any MCP server both locally and remotely. - [langchain-mcp](https://github.com/rectalogic/langchain-mcp) 🐍 - Provides MCP tool calling support in LangChain - [tadata-org/fastapi_mcp](https://github.com/tadata-org/fastapi_mcp) 🐍 - Provides MCP wrapping on top of existing FastAPI REST endpoints - [easymcp](https://github.com/promptmesh/easymcp) 🐍 - A high level asyncio native client SDK with native support for namespaced servers and caching. - [mcp-cli](https://github.com/tileshq/mcp-cli) 🐍 - A lightweight CLI MCP client to connect with remote MCP servers. - [MCPcat](https://github.com/mcpcat/mcpcat-python-sdk) 🐍 - User analytics, session tracking, and live debugging for MCPs - [basementstudio/xmcp](http://github.com/raw-labs/mxcp) 🐍 - Open-source framework for building secure, testable, enterprise-grade MCP tools from SQL or Python on top of dbt + DuckDB. ### Java - [quarkus-mcp-server](https://github.com/quarkiverse/quarkus-mcp-server) ☕ - Java SDK for building MCP servers using Quarkus - [spring-ai-mcp](https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-ai-mcp) ☕ - Java SDK and Spring Framework integration for building MCP client and MCP servers - [tinystruct-mcp](https://github.com/tinystruct/tinystruct-mcp) ☕ - Java SDK and establishing an extensible MCP server based on lightweight tinystruct framework ### Go - [ggoodman/mcp-server-go](https://github.com/ggoodman/mcp-server-go) 🏎️ - Build MCP servers that scale from a 20‑line stdio prototype to a horizontally scaled, OIDC‑protected streaming HTTP deployment — without rewriting business logic. - [mark3labs/mcp-go](https://github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go) 🏎️ - Golang SDK for building MCP Servers and Clients - [metoro-io/mcp-golang](https://github.com/metoro-io/mcp-golang) 🏎️ - Golang framework for building MCP Servers, focussed on type safety - [strowk/foxy-contexts](https://github.com/strowk/foxy-contexts) 🏎️ - Golang library to write MCP Servers declaratively with functional testing included ### Rust - [linux-china/mcp-rs-template](https://github.com/linux-china/mcp-rs-template) 🦀 - MCP CLI server template for Rust - [Epistates/TurboMCP](https://github.com/Epistates/turbomcp) 🦀 - TurboMCP SDK: Enterprise MCP SDK - [poem-web/poem#poem-mcpserver](https://github.com/poem-web/poem/tree/master/poem-mcpserver) 🦀 - MCP Server implementation for Poem - [markndg/mcp-probe](https://github.com/markndg/mcp-probe) 🦀 - Rust CLI that validates conformance, schema correctness, and capability negotiation against any MCP server. ### Kotlin - [http4k MCP SDK](https://mcp.http4k.org) 🔶 - Functional, testable Kotlin SDK based around the popular [http4k](https://http4k.org) Web toolkit ### C#/.NET - [salty-flower/ModelContextProtocol.NET](https://github.com/salty-flower/ModelContextProtocol.NET) #️⃣ - A C# SDK for building MCP servers on .NET 9 with NativeAOT compatibility ⚡ 🔌 ### Scala - [mullerhai/sakura-mcp](https://github.com/mullerhai/sakura-mcp) 〽️ - Scala MCP Framework for Building effective agents with MCP servers and clients ### Dart - [leehack/mcp_dart](https://github.com/leehack/mcp_dart/) 🎯 - This library aims to provide a simple and intuitive way to implement MCP servers and clients in Dart ### Ruby - [modelcontextprotocol/ruby-sdk](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/ruby-sdk) 💎 🎖️ - Official Ruby SDK for building MCP servers - [tidewave-ai/tidewave_rails](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_rails) 💎 - Ruby on Rails MCP, speed up development with AI assistants that understand your web application, how it runs, and what it delivers ### Elixir - [tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix) 💧 - Phoenix MCP, speed up development with AI assistants that understand your web application, how it runs, and what it delivers ### C/C++ - [micl2e2/mcpc](https://github.com/micl2e2/mcpc) 🌊 - Modern C SDK for building MCP servers/clients. ### Swift - [modelcontextprotocol/swift-sdk](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/swift-sdk) 🍎 🎖️ - Official Swift SDK for building with MCP. ### Bash - [yaniv-golan/mcp-bash-framework](https://github.com/yaniv-golan/mcp-bash-framework) 👾 - Zero-dependency Bash implementation for building MCP servers, supporting features like tool handling, schema validation, progress streaming, and cross-platform compatibility. ### Common Lisp - [jsulmont/mcp-lisp](https://github.com/jsulmont/mcp-lisp) λ - Common Lisp SDK for building MCP servers and clients with HTTP and stdio transports ## Frameworks > High-level frameworks for working with MCP servers - [hasmcp/hasmcp-ce](https://github.com/hasmcp/hasmcp-ce) 🤖📇🏎️ - Convert your API to MCP server with built-in authentication, authorization, real-time request/response logs and metrics. HasMCP is a no-code, self-hosted API to MCP server bridge. - [lastmile-ai/mcp-agent](https://github.com/lastmile-ai/mcp-agent) 🤖 🔌 - Build effective agents with MCP servers using simple, composable patterns - [jcasare/mcp-craft](https://github.com/jcasare/mcp-craft) 📇 - CLI toolkit for scaffolding, testing, and registering MCP servers across Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, and Gemini - [mcpdotdirect/template-mcp-server](https://github.com/mcpdotdirect/template-mcp-server) 📇 - A CLI tool to create a new MCP server project with TypeScript support - [p-funk/FEGIS](https://github.com/p-funk/FEGIS) 🐍 - A semantic programming framework for LLMs that compiles YAML archetypes into structured tools with built-in memory and meaning. Each interaction becomes part of an emergent knowledge graph, enabling persistent, semantic retrieval and reuse. - [sebastianbuzdugan/framework-rai-mcp](https://github.com/sebastianbuzdugan/framework-rai-mcp) 📇 - A responsible AI MCP server framework focused on ethical deployment in startups and enterprise prototypes. - [sendaifun/solana-agent-kit#agent-kit-mcp-server](https://github.com/sendaifun/solana-agent-kit/tree/main/examples/agent-kit-mcp-server) - Solana MCP SDK - [stephencme/create-mcp-ts](https://github.com/stephencme/create-mcp-ts) 📇 - Create a new MCP server in TypeScript, batteries included - supports user-defined templates! - [Upsonic/gpt-computer-assistant](https://github.com/Upsonic/gpt-computer-assistant) 🐍 – Framework to build vertical AI agent - [microsoft/semantic-kernel](https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel) 🐍 #️⃣ – Enterprise-ready orchestration framework MCP compatible from Microsoft to build intelligent AI agents and multi-agent systems. - [xmcp](https://github.com/basementstudio/xmcp) 📇 - A TypeScript framework with file-system routing & complete toolkit - [Kryfto](https://github.com/ExceptionRegret/Kryfto) 📇 - Open-source web-browsing backend for AI agents with a 42-tool MCP server for Claude Code/Cursor/Codex, REST API for n8n/Zapier/Make, federated multi-engine search, and enterprise infrastructure ## Testing Tools > Tools for testing MCP servers and clients - [Epistates/TurboMCPStudio](https://github.com/Epistates/TurboMCPStudio) 🦀 - Full Featured MCP Suite, testing and debugging. - [1Utkarsh1/mcp-stdio-guard](https://github.com/1Utkarsh1/mcp-stdio-guard) 📇 - CLI and CI guard for MCP stdio servers that validates initialize handshakes, `tools/list`, stdout JSON-RPC hygiene, crashes, repeat runs, and risky stdout writes. - [mclenhard/mcp-evals](https://github.com/mclenhard/mcp-evals) 🤖 - Package and Github action for running evals. - [modelcontextprotocol/inspector](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector) 📇 🎖️ - UI for testing MCP servers. - [wong2/mcp-cli](https://github.com/wong2/mcp-cli) 🤖 - Command line inspector for manual testing - [muppet-kit/inspector](https://github.com/muppet-dev/kit) - MCP Inspector with AI-assisted debugging and testing capabilities. - [loopwork-ai/Companion](https://github.com/loopwork-ai/Companion) - Companion is a utility for testing and debugging your MCP servers on macOS, iOS, and visionOS. - [garagon/aguara](https://github.com/garagon/aguara) 🏎️ - Static security scanner for MCP servers and AI agent skills. 173 detection rules, prompt injection, credential leaks, taint tracking. Scans configs and tool descriptions before deployment. - [DSHCorrectover/correctover-scan](https://github.com/DSHCorrectover/correctover-scan) 📇 - Zero-config CLI security scanner for MCP configs across Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, and generic mcp.json. Checks credential exposure, SSRF protection, auth and transport encryption, with JSON/SARIF output for CI. Runs via `npx correctover-scan`. - [greynewell/mcpbr](https://github.com/greynewell/mcpbr) 🐍 - Benchmark runner for evaluating MCP server performance and agentic capabilities. - [realwigu/mcp-doctor](https://github.com/realwigu/mcp-doctor) 📇 - Zero-config CLI that auto-discovers MCP configs across Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, and Claude Desktop. Tests connections via JSON-RPC handshake, audits for security issues, and benchmarks latency. - [markndg/mcp-probe](https://github.com/markndg/mcp-probe) 🦀 - Rust CLI that validates conformance, schema correctness, and capability negotiation against any MCP server. ### Authorization Testing > Resources for testing MCP servers with authentication and authorization - [NapthaAI/http-oauth-mcp-server](https://github.com/NapthaAI/http-oauth-mcp-server) 📇 - Example implementation of a remote MCP server with OAuth authentication - [modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/tree/main/examples/servers/simple-auth/mcp_simple_auth) 🐍 🎖️ - Example authenticated SSE server in the official Python SDK Public test endpoints: - [Asana MCP Server](https://mcp.asana.com/sse) - Production SSE endpoint for testing OAuth flows - [Sentry MCP Server](https://mcp.sentry.dev/sse) - Production SSE endpoint for testing OAuth flows - [Atlassian MCP Server](https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse) - Production SSE endpoint for testing OAuth flows (requires allowlisting) - [NotFair](https://notfair.co) - Google Ads MCP server. Connect Claude and AI agents to a Google Ads account: diagnose campaign performance, recommend optimizations, and execute approved changes via the Google Ads API. Source: github.com/nowork-studio/toprank. Free tier available. ## Libraries > Reusable code libraries and components for MCP servers - [marimo-team/codemirror-mcp](https://github.com/marimo-team/codemirror-mcp) 📇 - CodeMirror extension that implements MCP for resource mentions and prompt commands - [jhgaylor/express-mcp-handlder](https://github.com/jhgaylor/express-mcp-handler) 📇 - Bind an MCP server to an express server using the StreamableHTTP Transport - [JoshuaSiraj/mcp_auto_register](https://github.com/JoshuaSiraj/mcp_auto_register) 🐍 – Tool to automate the registration of functions and classes from a Python package into a FastMCP instance - [isaacwasserman/mcp-langchain-ts-client](https://github.com/isaacwasserman/mcp-langchain-ts-client) 📇 – Use MCP provided tools in LangChain.js - [traceloop/openllmetry#opentelemetry-instrumentation-mcp](https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry/tree/main/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-mcp) 🐍 - OpenTelemetry instrumentation for MCP Python that captures tool calls, notifications, listing, initialization handshakes and propagates traces from client to server. ## Utilities > Useful tools for debugging, proxying, testing, and working with MCP servers ### Proxies and Gateways - [adiom-data/grpcmcp](https://github.com/adiom-data/grpcmcp) 🏎️ - A MCP Server that allows access to gRPC API services. - [boilingdata/mcp-server-and-gw](https://github.com/boilingdata/mcp-server-and-gw) 📇 - An MCP stdio to HTTP SSE transport gateway - [emicklei/mcp-log-proxy](https://github.com/emicklei/mcp-log-proxy) 🏎️ - An MCP proxy server that offers a Web UI to see the complete message flow. - [EvalsOne/MCP-Connect](https://github.com/EvalsOne/MCP-Connect) 📇 - A tiny tool that enables cloud-based AI services to access local Stdio based MCP servers via HTTP/HTTPS - [fangyinc/mcpport](https://github.com/fangyinc/mcpport) 🐍 - A lightweight gateway & registry for MCP servers with NAT traversal support, allowing edge devices to provide MCP services across networks. Features include WebSocket/SSE/HTTP endpoints, authentication, IPv6 support, and a CLI tool for easy registration of stdio-based MCP servers. - [hamidra/yamcp](https://github.com/hamidra/yamcp) 📇 - An MCP workspace manager to bundle and manage MCP servers in dedicated local workspaces (e.g., for coding, design, research). - [lightconetech/mcp-gateway](https://github.com/lightconetech/mcp-gateway) 📇 - A gateway demo for MCP SSE Server - [maximhq/bifrost](https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost) 🏎️ - Self-hosted AI gateway with MCP support, multi-provider routing, load balancing, virtual keys, and request logging. - [mcpjungle/MCPJungle](https://github.com/mcpjungle/MCPJungle) 🌳 - Self-hosted MCP Registry and Proxy for ai agents - [multi-mcp](https://github.com/kfirtoledo/multi-mcp) 🐍 - A flexible and dynamic Multi-MCP Proxy Server that acts as a single MCP server while connecting to and routing between multiple backend MCP servers over STDIO or SSE. Deployable on Kubernetes by exposing a single port, and supports dynamic addition and removal of MCP servers at runtime. - [SecretiveShell/MCP-Bridge](https://github.com/SecretiveShell/MCP-Bridge) 🐍 – An openAI middleware proxy to use MCP in any existing openAI compatible client - [sparfenyuk/mcp-proxy](https://github.com/sparfenyuk/mcp-proxy) 🐍 – An MCP stdio to SSE transport gateway - [TBXark/mcp-proxy](https://github.com/TBXark/mcp-proxy) 🏎️ - An MCP proxy server that aggregates multiple MCP resource servers through a single HTTP server - [aakashh242/remote-mcp-adapter](https://github.com/aakashh242/remote-mcp-adapter) 🐍 - An MCP gateway that fixes the "remote filesystem" problem: client sent files become staged uploads, server generated files become fetchable MCP resources. ### Development Tools - [bradsward/greenlight](https://github.com/bradsward/greenlight) 🐍 - Transparent stdio/HTTP proxy that logs every MCP message to JSONL, with a colorized live trace viewer and a stats command with a CI-usable exit code. - [Epistates/TurboMCPStudio](https://github.com/Epistates/TurboMCPStudio) 🦀 - Full Featured MCP Suite - [inercia/mcpshell](https://github.com/inercia/mcpshell) 🏎️ - Use shell scripts as MCP tools. - [ithena-one/ithena-cli](https://github.com/ithena-one/ithena-cli) 🏎️ - Wraps MCP commands to log interactions locally, facilitating debugging and interaction audits. Optional cloud. - [f/MCPTools](https://github.com/f/mcptools) 🏎️ - A command-line development tool for inspecting and interacting with MCP servers - [flux159/mcp-chat](https://github.com/flux159/mcp-chat) 📇 - A CLI based client to chat and connect with any MCP server - [mark3labs/mcphost](https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost) 🏎️ - A CLI host application that enables LLMs to interact with external tools through MCP - [rodaddy/mcp2cli](https://github.com/rodaddy/mcp2cli) 📇 - CLI bridge that wraps MCP servers as bash-invokable commands, recovering ~11K tokens of context window per session - [strowk/mcp-autotest](https://github.com/strowk/mcp-autotest) 🏎️ - A command-line tool for running YAML based language-agnostic autotests - [strowk/synf](https://github.com/strowk/synf) 🦀 - Tool to hot-reload MCP server on changes to saved files - [strowk/mcptee](https://github.com/strowk/mcptee/) 🏎️ - Tool to proxy MCP and log inputs and outputs to YAML file - [onUI](https://github.com/onllm-dev/onUI) 📇 - Browser extension and MCP server for annotation-first UI pair programming with AI agents. Annotate, draw, and capture UI context from any webpage. 8 MCP tools. Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf compatible. - [StacklokLabs/toolhive](https://github.com/Stacklok/toolhive) 🏎️ - A lightweight utility designed to simplify the deployment and management of MCP servers, ensuring ease of use, consistency, and security through containerization - [addozhang/spring-rest-to-mcp](https://github.com/addozhang/spring-rest-to-mcp) 🏎️ - An [OpenRewrite](https://docs.openrewrite.org/) recipe collection that automatically converts Spring Web REST APIs to Spring AI Model Context Protocol (MCP) server tools. - [taskade/mcp](https://github.com/taskade/mcp/tree/main/packages/openapi-codegen) 📇 - Generate MCP tools from OpenAPI schemas. Supports auto-linking, response normalization, and MCP server integration. - [type-mcp/mcp-anything](https://github.com/type-mcp/mcp-anything) 🐍 - Auto-generates MCP servers from any codebase or API spec (FastAPI, Flask, Spring Boot, Express, Go, Rails, OpenAPI, GraphQL, gRPC) in one command. - [Writbase/writbase](https://github.com/Writbase/writbase) 📇 - MCP-native task management system for AI agent fleets with multi-agent permissions and inter-agent delegation. - [mcp-hub](https://github.com/jiale-cheng-ning/mcp-hub) 🦀 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - TUI dashboard for managing, monitoring, and auditing MCP server configurations across Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, and Windsurf. Auto-discovers configs, runs security audits (plaintext secrets, dangerous permissions, unpinned packages), and health checks. ## Hosting > Libraries & platforms for hosting MCP servers. - [Smithery](https://smithery.ai/) - cloud hosting MCP servers as a service via docker containers - [vitorbari/mcp-operator](https://github.com/vitorbari/mcp-operator) - Kubernetes operator for MCP servers with automatic protocol validation, horizontal scaling, and built-in observability. ## Templates > Example code ready to be made into a component of an MCP system. - [dart-mcp-server-template](https://github.com/jhgaylor/dart-mcp-server-template) 🎯 - A template repository for creating Dart MCP servers. Provides a starting point with Docker configuration, http+stdio transport bindings, and a standard Dart project structure - [rails-mcp-startup-boilerplate](https://github.com/f/mcp-startup-boilerplate) 💎 - A Rails template for creating Paid MCP servers compatible with Claude Integrations. It uses Rails 8.0.2, Devise, Doorkeeper, FastMCP and Stripe. Has a built-in UI. ## Resources > Documentation, guides, standards, and learning materials for Model Context Protocol and MCP server development. - [Model Context Protocol Specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) — Official MCP specification - [nowork-studio/NotFair](https://github.com/nowork-studio/NotFair) - Open-source Claude Code agent skills for SEO, GEO, Google Ads, and Meta Ads; connects to live data via Google Ads MCP, Meta Ads MCP, Google Search Console MCP, and Google Analytics (GA4) MCP. ## Tutorials * [Setup Claude Desktop App to Use a SQLite Database](https://youtu.be/wxCCzo9dGj0) * [amirshk/mcp-secrets-plugin](https://github.com/amirshk/mcp-secrets-plugin) 🐍 - A reference code to securely store and retrieve sensitive information using the system's native keychain * [AI Agents for beginners by Microsoft](https://youtu.be/OhI005_aJkA?si=4nclgu-qAGgM57RJ) 🐍 #️⃣ Full Course (Lessons 1–10) using Semantic Kernel – Theoretical and practical content (1 hour) ## Related awesome lists: - [awesome-mcp-servers](https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers) - [awesome-mcp-clients](https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-clients)