MCP Reference Servers

Canonical collection of reference MCP server implementations maintained by the project. The active servers (Everything, Fetch, Filesystem, Git, Memory, Sequential Thinking, Time) demonstrate every server-side feature of the protocol and are recommended as the starting point for new implementers.

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name: MCP Reference Servers
description: Canonical collection of reference MCP server implementations maintained by the project. The
  active servers (Everything, Fetch, Filesystem, Git, Memory, Sequential Thinking, Time) demonstrate every
  server-side feature of the protocol and are recommended as the starting point for new implementers.
humanURL: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers
tags:
- Reference
- Servers
- Examples
properties:
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers