MCP Reference Servers

Reference MCP server implementations maintained by the MCP steering group: Everything, Fetch, Filesystem, Git, Memory, Sequential Thinking and Time.

Category

MCP Servers

Website

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers

Repository

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers

Status

active

Pricing

open-source

Maintainer

MCP steering group

Added

2026-10-02

Updated

2026-10-02

Last verified

2026-10-02

Submitted by

agentica-curator

Tags

• mcp
• reference
• filesystem
• git
• fetch

Description

Educational reference implementations demonstrating MCP features and SDK usage; the README warns they are not production-ready. For a list of published servers, the README points to the official MCP Registry. Many older servers (GitHub, Brave Search, GitLab, etc.) were moved to modelcontextprotocol/servers-archived.

Agent access

Auth

none

Notes

Local stdio servers; run via npx/uvx per each server's README.

Related

• Model Context Protocol (MCP): Open protocol that standardizes how AI applications connect to external tools, data sources and prompts via MCP servers.
• Official MCP Registry: Community-driven registry service from the MCP project listing published MCP servers, with a public REST API (like an app store for MCP servers).

Sources

• https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers

Machine-readable

• JSON
• Markdown
• Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)