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Best MCP Servers 2026 — Top 20+ Pre-Built Servers for AI Agents

The MCP ecosystem has hundreds of pre-built servers. Here are the most useful ones, organized by category.

Official Servers (by Anthropic)

These are maintained by Anthropic and are production-ready.

| Server | Package | What it does | |--------|---------|______________| | Filesystem | @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem | Read/write local files | | GitHub | @modelcontextprotocol/server-github | Repos, issues, PRs, commits | | PostgreSQL | @modelcontextprotocol/server-postgres | Query PostgreSQL databases | | SQLite | @modelcontextprotocol/server-sqlite | Query SQLite databases | | Brave Search | @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search | Web search via Brave API | | Fetch | @modelcontextprotocol/server-fetch | HTTP requests / web scraping | | Memory | @modelcontextprotocol/server-memory | Persistent key-value memory | | Puppeteer | @modelcontextprotocol/server-puppeteer | Browser automation | | Slack | @modelcontextprotocol/server-slack | Read/post Slack messages | | Google Drive | @modelcontextprotocol/server-gdrive | Access Google Drive files | | Google Maps | @modelcontextprotocol/server-google-maps | Maps, directions, places |

Community Servers

| Server | What it does | |--------|______________| | Playwright | Browser automation (alternative to Puppeteer) | | Linear | Project management (issues, cycles, projects) | | Jira | Jira issue tracking | | Notion | Read/write Notion pages and databases | | Stripe | Payment information and transactions | | Cloudflare | Workers, KV, D1, R2 management | | AWS | S3, Lambda, EC2 operations | | Docker | Container management | | kubectl | Kubernetes cluster management |

Installing a Server

All Node.js-based servers can be run with npx (no installation required):

Terminal window
# Test a server directly
npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem /tmp

For Python-based servers:

Terminal window
pip install mcp-server-name
python -m mcp_server_name

Config Examples

Full Development Setup

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem", "."]
    },
    "github": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-github"],
      "env": { "GITHUB_TOKEN": "ghp_..." }
    },
    "memory": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-memory"]
    },
    "brave-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search"],
      "env": { "BRAVE_API_KEY": "BSA..." }
    }
  }
}

Data Analysis Setup

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sqlite": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-sqlite", "data.db"]
    },
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem", "./data"]
    }
  }
}

Finding More Servers

  • Official registry: The MCP GitHub organization lists maintained servers
  • Community: Search npm for mcp-server-* and PyPI for mcp-server-*
  • Build your own: See Building MCP Servers