What MCP Servers Are Available?

What MCP servers are available? More than anyone can list, and they fall into a few categories: reference servers maintained in the MCP project, official servers from vendors such as GitHub, Cloudflare, Stripe and Sentry, documentation servers such as Context7, and data servers such as JobsPipe. Some run on your machine over stdio; others are hosted at a URL.

What MCP servers are available, by category

1. Reference servers. The modelcontextprotocol/servers repository maintains small servers that demonstrate the protocol: Filesystem, Fetch, Git, Memory, Sequential Thinking and Time, plus an Everything server used for testing clients. They run locally over stdio, launched with npx or uvx, and they are the fastest way to see a client work.
2. Developer platforms. GitHub ships an official server for issues, pull requests and code search, available hosted and as a local container. Microsoft’s Playwright MCP drives a browser from an agent. Cloudflare publishes a set of hosted servers covering its documentation, account resources and observability data.
3. SaaS and payments. Stripe offers a hosted server plus a local package for reading and managing account objects. Sentry’s hosted server exposes issues, traces and projects. Both authenticate with OAuth or an API key, handled once at connection time.
4. Documentation. Context7 serves current, version-specific library documentation to the model on request, hosted or local, so an agent stops guessing at an API it half remembers.
5. Data servers. JobsPipe runs at https://mcp.jobspipe.dev/mcp over Streamable HTTP with four tools: search_jobs, detect_company_tech_stack, list_pricing_plans and search_documentation. Any client that speaks MCP can query live postings through it.
6. Where to find more. The MCP project runs an official registry, and each client keeps a directory: the connectors list in Claude, Cursor’s MCP directory and the server list in VS Code. Vendor servers are usually documented on the vendor’s own developer pages before they reach any registry.

Where are MCP servers hosted? Either on your machine or on the vendor’s. A local server is a process the client launches, talking over stdin and stdout; it has whatever access the user has, which is why filesystem and git servers are local. A hosted server is a URL that speaks Streamable HTTP, like https://mcp.jobspipe.dev/mcp; you paste the URL into the client and sign in. Hosted is the right shape for anything backed by an API with accounts and keys.

What is an MCP server in VS Code? The same thing, configured in the editor. VS Code reads a .vscode/mcp.json file with a servers key, each entry giving a type and either a url or a command; the exact shape has changed between releases, so check the current VS Code documentation if a field is rejected. Once listed, the tools appear in agent mode next to the built-in ones.

Where JobsPipe fits

JobsPipe is a jobs data API that collects live postings from LinkedIn, Indeed, Y Combinator, Naukri, Workday, Greenhouse, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Ashby, Lever and Paylocity, returns them as one schema with closure tracking and a ghost score, and includes a free tier of 1,000 jobs a month. Its hosted server, documented at jobspipe.dev, is one entry in VS Code:

{
  "servers": {
    "jobspipe": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.jobspipe.dev/mcp" }
  }
}

Setup for Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT is on the MCP server page, the concepts are in what is an MCP server, and building your own is in how to build an MCP server.