modelcontextprotocol/servers

Why it's useful, from basith (Admin)

Reference MCP servers from the protocol's maintainers.

11 skills inside

• board-ops

  gh recipes for the Servers V2 project board (#43): add an issue's card, move its Status, set or change its Priority, delete a card, and recover from a deleted single-select option. Use when moving a card between columns; when setting Status or Priority; when an option ID is rejec

• client-smoke

  Drive a locally built server with a real client: the Inspector CLI (scripted), the Inspector web UI (by hand) and an LLM client. Use when smoke-testing a server change; when calling a tool, reading a resource or getting a prompt from the command line; when choosing a protocol era

• issue-create

  Create a tracked issue in this repo end to end — duplicate check, v2 label, type label, server-scope label, milestone, board card, Status and Priority. Use when asked to file, create, open or raise an issue; when picking its labels or its milestone; when checking whether one alre

• issue-triage

  Triage this repo's inflow — sweep unboarded issues onto the Servers V2 board (#43) as Incoming, score Priority with the rubric and post the score, classify outside PRs and spam (server listings, new servers, duplicates, no-ops) and close them with their canned comments, and run t

• local-dev

  Install, build and run a server from this checkout. Use when starting a server locally over stdio, SSE or Streamable HTTP; when pointing npx, uvx or an MCP client config at the local build; when a running server still shows old code, or dist is missing; when setting up a git work

• pr-flow

  Take an issue through to a PR in this repo and close it out after merge. Use when asked to open, create or submit a PR; when naming a branch; when signing off commits or repairing a missing Signed-off-by; when recording client evidence for a PR; when requesting a Copilot review,

• pre-push-gate

  Run this repo's pre-push gate and fix it when it goes red. Use when npm run local:gate fails or a stage of it does (verify:install-fresh, a root guard, lint, typecheck, ruff, pyright, pytest, verify:skills:cli, the boot smoke); when the gate says it is waiting on the gate lease;

• project-structure

  Find where code lives in this repo's seven servers and decide where a new file goes. Use when choosing the file or directory for a new tool, resource, prompt, transport, helper module, command-line flag or root script; when a server's layout is unclear; or when asking whether cod

• release

  Cut a milestone release: the release issue, the preparation PRs on v2/main (audit, changesets Version Packages, Python CalVer), the pure v2/main to main merge PR with its release ledger, then the GitHub Release a maintainer publishes.

• security-advisory

  Take a privately reported vulnerability through this repo's security advisory flow: board it as a draft card, check whether the code is this repo's server or the SDK underneath, accept or reject, fix it in the private fork, release, publish, then turn the card into public trackin

• testing

  Write, place and run tests for a server in this repo. Use when choosing between driving the server through an MCP client and calling its functions directly; when writing a protocol-level test for a TypeScript or Python server; when choosing the command that runs one suite or a co

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