Top MCPs for Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop was the first widely-available MCP client and remains the reference implementation — every MCP server is built and tested against it first. This is the curated ranking of MCPs for Claude Desktop in 2026, sorted by composite score and filtered to servers verified to load via claude_desktop_config.json.

153 compatible MCPs6 curated top picksVerified for 2026

How MCP works in Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop reads MCP servers from claude_desktop_config.json — open it with Settings → Developer → Edit Config. Each entry needs a command and args; secrets belong in the env block, never in args. After editing, fully quit Claude (not just close the window) and reopen — the hammer icon in the chat bar should show the connected servers.

Top picks for Claude Desktop

The curated starting stack — install these first.

Persistent knowledge graph memory across AI conversations.

memory, persistence, knowledge-graph, agents
2 minLow

Up-to-date library docs pulled directly into your AI context.

coding, documentation, libraries, accuracy
3 minLow

Full browser automation: navigate, click, screenshot, and scrape.

browser, automation, scraping, puppeteer
5 minMedium

All 153 MCPs compatible with Claude Desktop

Ranked by composite score. Top picks above are the curated starting stack; everything below is sorted by popularity, maintenance, and provenance.

Current time and IANA timezone conversion — the first-party MCP that tells an agent what time it actually is.

time, timezone, clock, iana
2 minLow

Persistent memory layer for AI agents — auto-summarised, cross-session recall.

memory, mem0, recall, personalization
5 minLow

Retrieve web pages and convert them to clean markdown.

web, fetch, markdown, scraping
1 minLow

Local Git operations: commit, diff, log, branch, and more.

git, local, commits, diff
2 minLow

Run pre-built browser-automation Actors on managed infrastructure.

browser, automation, scraping, apify
5 minLow
Official

Official Microsoft browser automation across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.

browser, automation, playwright, testing
5 minMedium
13
Google MCP Toolbox
Official

Google-published MCP server for databases — one Go binary speaks Postgres, MySQL, BigQuery, Spanner, AlloyDB, Snowflake, ClickHouse, MongoDB, Redis, and more.

database, multi-database, google, postgres
10 minMedium

Query dashboards, Prometheus/Loki datasources, alerts, and incidents from an AI agent — official.

grafana, observability, prometheus, loki
5 minMedium
Official

AI-optimized web search with cleaned, citation-ready results.

search, web, research, rag
3 minLow
Official

Scrape, crawl, extract structured data, and search the web from an AI agent.

firecrawl, scraping, crawl, extract
3 minLow
Official

Search, scrape, and unblock any public web page from an AI agent — official Web Unlocker MCP.

bright-data, scraping, web-unlocker, proxy
3 minLow
Official

Run `fly mcp server` to expose flyctl operations to AI agents.

fly-io, hosting, flyctl, edge
5 minMedium
Official

Neural web search and page fetch for AI agents — official remote MCP at mcp.exa.ai/mcp.

exa, search, neural, retrieval
2 minLow

Look up Terraform Registry providers and modules, and manage HCP Terraform workspaces from an AI agent.

terraform, iac, infrastructure-as-code, hashicorp
5 minMedium

Reach the whole Cloudflare API from an agent — DNS records, Workers, R2, and the Registrar beta — through one hosted Code Mode server.

cloudflare, edge, workers, dns
5 minMedium
Official

Query and inspect MongoDB collections from Claude, Cursor, and VS Code.

database, nosql, mongodb, atlas
5 minLow

Manage Azure resources across 40+ services from an AI agent — Microsoft's official MCP.

azure, microsoft, cloud, aks
5 minMedium

Build and validate n8n workflows with an agent that knows all 2,000+ n8n nodes — most-installed n8n MCP.

n8n, automation, workflows, nodes
3 minLow

Manage payments, customers, and subscriptions through Stripe.

stripe, payments, billing, invoicing
5 minMedium
Official

Search, ask, research, and reason via the official Perplexity MCP.

perplexity, search, research, sonar
3 minLow
Official

Inspect keys, run commands, and debug Redis from an AI agent.

database, cache, redis, valkey
3 minLow

Vision-first browser automation built for AI agents.

browser, automation, browser-use, vision
10 minMedium
Official

Drive Azure DevOps repos, pull requests, work items, and pipelines from an AI agent — Microsoft official.

azure-devops, ado, pull-requests, work-items
5 minMedium

Read, write, and search across Notion pages, databases, and blocks.

notion, docs, databases, knowledge
5 minLow
Official

Read channel messages, post replies, and trigger meetings from MS Teams.

communication, microsoft, teams, m365
20 minMedium
Official

Query GA4 reports, funnels, and realtime data from an AI agent.

analytics, ga4, google-analytics, reporting
15 minMedium

Drive a live Blender session from an agent — create objects, set materials, run Python, render.

blender, 3d, modeling, rendering
10 minMedium
Official

Query ClickHouse and ClickHouse Cloud columnar warehouses from an AI agent.

database, warehouse, clickhouse, olap
10 minMedium

Open-source workflow automation with a built-in MCP server — build, publish, and debug flows from an AI agent.

automation, workflow, activepieces, open-source
5 minLow

Manage Bitbucket Cloud repos, pipelines, and pull requests from an AI agent.

git, bitbucket, atlassian, pipelines
10 minMedium
Official

Read, write, and manage GCS buckets and objects from an AI agent — official Google MCP, local or remote.

google-cloud, gcs, storage, object-storage
10 minMedium
Official

Query Google Ads campaigns, metrics, and account performance with GAQL — Google's official MCP.

google-ads, ads, ppc, marketing
10 minMedium

Full Supabase access: database, auth, storage, and edge functions.

supabase, database, backend, postgres
5 minLow

Inspect Figma designs, components, and variables from an agent — the widely adopted community server.

figma, design, design-to-code, components
5 minMedium
Official

Hosted, isolated Chromium runtime for AI agents that need a fresh browser per task.

browser, cloud, browserbase, automation
5 minMedium
Official

AI-native browser automation: act, observe, and extract in plain English.

browser, stagehand, browserbase, ai-automation
5 minMedium
44
Official

Send transactional and broadcast emails via the official Resend MCP.

resend, email, transactional, broadcast
2 minLow
45
Official

Search indices, inspect mappings, and run queries against Elasticsearch from an AI agent.

database, search, elasticsearch, elastic
10 minMedium

AWS's own managed MCP server — run AWS APIs, execute sandboxed scripts, and search AWS documentation under IAM.

aws, cloud, cloudwatch, iam
10 minMedium

Official Mapbox MCP — geocoding, directions, isochrones, search, and tiles across the Mapbox API surface.

mapbox, maps, geocoding, directions
5 minLow
48
Salesforce DX
Official

Official Salesforce MCP — SOQL queries, metadata deploy/retrieve, Apex tests, and org management from AI clients.

salesforce, crm, soql, apex
5 minMedium
Official

Scrape any URL, render JavaScript, and reach geo-restricted data — official Oxylabs Web Scraper MCP.

oxylabs, scraping, serp, ecommerce
5 minMedium

Full GitLab API access: repos, MRs, issues, pipelines, and registries.

git, gitlab, repos, mrs
5 minLow
Official

Triage errors, inspect traces, and query events from Sentry.

sentry, errors, monitoring, observability
3 minLow
Official

Manage Jira, Confluence, and Compass via the official Atlassian Rovo MCP.

atlassian, jira, confluence, rovo
3 minLow
Official

Live SERP, keyword, backlink, and on-page SEO data for an AI agent.

seo, serp, keywords, backlinks
10 minMedium

Inspect and manage Kubernetes clusters through kubectl-equivalent tools, with a non-destructive mode.

kubernetes, k8s, kubectl, helm
5 minMedium

Local-first agent memory as plain Markdown — a semantic knowledge graph you and the agent can both read.

memory, markdown, knowledge-graph, obsidian
5 minLow
Official

Provision Render services, read deploy logs and metrics, and query Postgres read-only — over a hosted OAuth MCP.

render, web-hosting, deployment, paas
5 minMedium

2,800+ apps and managed OAuth via Pipedream's hosted MCP at mcp.pipedream.com.

pipedream, automation, workflows, oauth
10 minMedium

In-process analytical SQL over files and Parquet from an AI agent.

database, olap, duckdb, parquet
2 minLow

Manage subscriptions, transactions, products, prices, and financial reports on Paddle — official MCP.

paddle, billing, subscriptions, saas
5 minMedium
60
Official

Buy a domain, provision hosting, deploy a site, and set its DNS — one official server covering the whole chain, now through three search-and-execute tools.

hostinger, domains, web-hosting, dns
10 minMedium
Official

Figma's own MCP server — read design context, generate code, and write back to the canvas.

figma, design, design-to-code, code-connect
5 minLow
Official

Manage Droplets, App Platform, Kubernetes, and Spaces from an AI agent.

digitalocean, hosting, cloud, kubernetes
5 minMedium

Process payments and manage orders, catalog, inventory, and bookings on Square — official MCP.

square, payments, point-of-sale, commerce
5 minMedium
Official

Score npm, PyPI, Go, and Maven dependencies for supply-chain and vulnerability risk before an agent installs them.

socket, security, supply-chain, dependencies
3 minLow
65
Postgres MCP ProPRO

Production-grade Postgres MCP with index advice, EXPLAIN, and health checks.

database, sql, postgres, performance
5 minMedium

Deploy a site, read the build, and manage projects, forms and extensions with Netlify's official MCP server.

netlify, web-hosting, deployment, jamstack
5 minLow

Managed vector database for semantic search and retrieval in AI agents.

vector-db, pinecone, retrieval, embeddings
5 minMedium

Open-source vector search with payload filtering, self-hostable or managed.

vector-db, qdrant, retrieval, embeddings
10 minMedium
Official

Manage Heroku apps, dynos, add-ons, and Postgres from an AI agent.

heroku, hosting, paas, postgres
5 minMedium
70
Official

Manage Mailgun messaging, domains, webhooks, and analytics from an AI agent.

mailgun, email, transactional, analytics
5 minLow

Send messages and read channel history from a Telegram bot in an agent.

communication, messaging, telegram, bot
6 minLow
Official

Model, write and publish structured content from an agent — 73 tools across entries, assets and content types.

contentful, cms, headless-cms, website-builders
10 minMedium

Real-time web search with privacy-focused results.

search, web, realtime, news
5 minLow
Official

Run QuickBooks Online accounting from an agent — invoices, bills, payments, and financial reports.

quickbooks, accounting, invoicing, bookkeeping
30 minHigh
75
Microsoft 365

Outlook mail and calendar, Teams, OneDrive and Excel through one Graph API server.

microsoft, outlook, calendar, email
10 minMedium

Turn Make.com on-demand scenarios into agent-callable tools — official MCP.

make-com, automation, workflows, integromat
10 minMedium

Run read-only MySQL queries and inspect schemas from an AI agent.

database, sql, mysql, mariadb
5 minLow
Official

Official Plaid MCP — developer sandbox tooling and dashboard diagnostics, not a live bank-data connector.

plaid, fintech, banking-api, developer-tools
10 minMedium

Open-source agentic browser automation that handles login walls and CAPTCHAs.

browser, agent, skyvern, vision
15 minHigh
81
Official

Read dynamic and static secrets from HashiCorp Vault inside agent workflows.

security, secrets, vault, hashicorp
15 minMedium

Read, create, and manage events across Google Calendar — via Google's official remote MCP or a self-hosted community server.

google-calendar, scheduling, events, productivity
10 minMedium

Query webpages with structured natural language — selectors written for you.

scraping, agentql, extraction, queries
3 minLow
Official

Ad-free, high-quality web search and page-to-markdown extraction from an AI agent.

kagi, search, ad-free, extraction
3 minLow
Official

Inject secrets from Doppler into agent workflows without exposing values in chat.

security, secrets, doppler, credentials
6 minLow
88

Send transactional email from an AI agent — verified deliverability, audit-friendly.

email, postmark, transactional, deliverability
5 minLow
Official

Query and edit Sanity content over a remote OAuth MCP — no token in a config file.

sanity, cms, headless-cms, groq
5 minLow
Official

Edit a live Webflow site from an agent — CMS collections, pages, and the Designer canvas over OAuth.

webflow, website-builders, cms, no-code
10 minMedium
Official

Open-source SAST scanning against custom rules from an AI agent.

security, sast, semgrep, static-analysis
5 minLow

Official Xero MCP — invoices, contacts, bank transactions, and accounting from an agent.

xero, accounting, invoicing, bookkeeping
10 minMedium

Query Search Console clicks, impressions, and queries from an AI agent.

seo, search-console, gsc, organic-search
15 minMedium
Official

Backlinks, keyword research, and rank tracking from the official Ahrefs remote MCP.

seo, backlinks, keywords, rank-tracking
5 minLow

Read and post to Discord channels — community management for AI agents.

discord, chat, community, bot
10 minMedium

Capture context and decisions across sessions — durable agent memory in markdown.

agent, memory, context, persistence
2 minLow
99
Official

Register, transfer and manage Name.com domains and DNS from an agent — the official server, sandboxed by default.

name-com, domains, registrar, dns
5 minLow
Official

Hosted Chromium with proxies and anti-bot evasion for AI agents.

browser, automation, hyperbrowser, proxies
6 minLow

Embedded and hosted vector database for AI agents — open source, zero-ops.

vector-db, chroma, embeddings, retrieval
5 minLow

Read and send Slack messages, manage channels and threads — the token-based community server, no admin approval needed.

slack, messaging, communication, automation
10 minMedium

Self-hosted Slack alternative — read and post from an AI agent.

communication, chat, mattermost, self-hosted
8 minLow

Deploy to your own server from an agent — the self-hosted answer to Vercel and Railway.

coolify, web-hosting, self-hosted, deployment
10 minMedium
105

Send email and inspect deliverability via SendGrid from an AI agent.

email, sendgrid, transactional, deliverability
10 minMedium
106

Diagnose a domain before and after you change it — DNS, DNSSEC, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, TLS — with no API key.

intodns, dns, dnssec, spf
2 minLow

Publish and manage a WordPress site from an agent over the REST API — posts, pages, media, plugins, themes.

wordpress, cms, website-builders, publishing
10 minMedium

Local SQLite database access with full read/write support.

database, sqlite, local, storage
2 minLow
Official

Send SMS, WhatsApp, and voice calls from an AI agent via Twilio.

communication, sms, whatsapp, voice
10 minLow
110
PostgreSQL (archived)
Archived

Anthropic's reference Postgres MCP — archived July 2025 and superseded by Postgres MCP Pro or the Supabase MCP.

database, sql, postgres, archived
3 minLow

Build on Shopify with an agent — searches the dev docs and validates generated GraphQL, components and Liquid themes.

shopify, ecommerce, developer-tools, graphql
10 minMedium
Official

Create invoices, capture orders, issue refunds, and track disputes on PayPal — official MCP.

paypal, payments, invoices, refunds
5 minMedium
Archived

Search and read Google Drive files from an AI agent (archived reference implementation).

google-drive, storage, filesystem, documents
15 minMedium

Built-in MCP for Inngest functions, events, runs, and docs — zero auth, zero config.

inngest, events, workflows, dev-server
< 1 minLow
Archived

Fire IFTTT applets via webhooks from an AI agent. Community MCP wrapper archived; IFTTT itself is unaffected.

automation, webhooks, ifttt, integration
4 minLow

Draft, schedule and publish to Ghost with a preview-then-approve gate on every write.

ghost, cms, publishing, blogging
10 minMedium

Official Cal.com hosted MCP — AI agents book, reschedule, and query availability across 34 tools via OAuth 2.1, no local install.

cal.com, scheduling, booking, calendar
5 minLow

Turn a vague goal into a dependency-tracked task graph an agent can execute step by step.

task-management, decomposition, planning, chain-of-thought
15 minMedium

Expose 8,000+ Zapier integrations as tools your AI agent can call.

zapier, automation, integrations, workflow
5 minLow

Browse, search, and Q&A across Box content from an AI agent — official remote MCP.

box, storage, enterprise, content
5 minMedium
Official

Google's own hosted BigQuery MCP server — explore datasets and run SQL under IAM, with a read-only tool by default.

database, warehouse, bigquery, google-cloud
10 minMedium
122
Official

Inject 1Password secrets into an AI agent's tool calls without exposing them in chat.

security, secrets, 1password, vault
8 minLow
Official

Official Foursquare Places MCP — POI search, GeoTagging, and rich place metadata across 100M+ places.

foursquare, places, poi-search, geocoding
5 minLow
124
Official

Official Attio MCP — natural-language CRM control across records, lists, and notes via OAuth.

attio, crm, sales, pipeline
< 1 minLow
125
Zoho CRM
Official

Create records, update deals, and run Zoho CRM actions from an AI agent — official Zoho MCP.

zoho, crm, sales, deals
10 minMedium
126
Official

Manage leads, contacts, opportunities, and tasks in Close from an AI agent — official scoped MCP.

close, crm, sales, leads
5 minLow
Official

Pull keyword, backlink, traffic, and competitor data into an AI agent — official Semrush MCP.

semrush, seo, keywords, backlinks
3 minLow
Official

Search conversations, contacts, companies, and help articles in Intercom from an AI agent — official MCP.

intercom, support, customer-messaging, fin
5 minLow
132
Snyk (MCP archived)
Archived

Scan code and dependencies for vulnerabilities from an AI coding assistant. Standalone MCP package archived; Snyk itself remains current via its IDE integrations.

security, vulnerabilities, sast, sca
10 minMedium
Archived

Trigger and manage n8n workflows from an AI agent. Community MCP wrapper archived; n8n itself is unaffected.

automation, workflow, n8n, integration
8 minLow

Self-hosted Git server — manage repos, issues, and PRs from an AI agent.

git, gitea, forgejo, codeberg
10 minMedium
135
Snowflake (official)
Official

Snowflake-managed MCP servers — Cortex Analyst, Cortex Search, and gated SQL, with RBAC and masking enforced by Snowflake.

snowflake, warehouse, cortex, sql
30 minHigh
Archived

Secure cloud sandboxes for executing AI-generated code — npm MCP package archived; vendor recommends the hosted E2B platform.

coding, execution, sandbox, cloud
5 minLow
Official

Official HubSpot MCP server — CRM contacts, deals, and meeting scheduling from Claude or Cursor.

hubspot, crm, meetings, scheduling
10 minLow
Official

Spin up Railway projects, services, and deploys via remote MCP with OAuth.

railway, hosting, deployment, paas
2 minLow
139

Send, read, search, and label Gmail from an AI agent — community MCP with auto-OAuth.

gmail, email, community, google
15 minMedium
Official

Cross-repo code search, navigation, and Deep Search via the official Sourcegraph MCP.

sourcegraph, code-search, navigation, deep-search
10 minMedium

Enterprise iPaaS — trigger Workato recipes from an AI agent.

automation, workflow, workato, ipaas
12 minMedium
Official

Official Fireflies remote MCP — query meeting transcripts, AI summaries, and action items via OAuth or API key.

fireflies, meeting-notes, transcripts, ai-summaries
2 minLow
Official

Official Fathom remote MCP — access meeting recordings, transcripts, summaries, and webhooks from any MCP client.

fathom, meeting-notes, transcripts, recordings
2 minLow

Manage Linear issues, projects, and cycles from AI context.

linear, project-management, issues, productivity
5 minMedium
Archived

Vector database with first-class hybrid (vector + keyword) and modular embeddings (MCP server archived — package no longer published).

vector-db, weaviate, hybrid-search, retrieval
10 minMedium
Archived

Multi-model orchestration — let Claude consult Gemini, GPT, and o-series as sub-agents. Upstream community repository archived; no further maintenance.

agent, orchestration, multi-model, consensus
10 minMedium
147

At-cost registration and full DNS control from an agent — read-only until you explicitly turn writes on.

porkbun, domains, registrar, dns
5 minLow
148
Namecheap API MCP

Read and edit a Namecheap portfolio from any MCP client — the non-ChatGPT path to the same account.

namecheap, domains, dns, registrar
10 minMedium
Official

Anthropic-verified Fellow Connector — query meeting notes, transcripts, action items, and calendar events from Claude.

fellow, meeting-notes, transcripts, action-items
< 1 minLow

Self-hosted CMS content and schema editing from an agent — 20 tools including content-type creation.

strapi, cms, headless-cms, self-hosted
10 minMedium
151
Snowflake (community)

Inspect schemas and run SQL against a Snowflake account from an AI agent.

database, warehouse, snowflake, sql
15 minMedium

Official hosted MCP for booking-link scheduling — share availability without exposing the raw calendar.

calendar, scheduling, calendly, booking
5 minLow

FAQ: MCP in Claude Desktop

Which MCP should I install first in Claude Desktop?

Filesystem. It is the canonical starting point: it lets Claude read and write files in directories you allow, which unlocks the "use Claude with my codebase" workflow that most people want from MCP. Add Memory and Sequential Thinking next — they are zero-config and immediately useful across every conversation.

How do I add an MCP to Claude Desktop?

Open Settings → Developer → Edit Config. Add the server under mcpServers (each MCP detail page on this site has a copy-paste snippet pre-formatted for Claude Desktop). Save the file, then fully quit and reopen Claude — Reload Window is not enough.

Why are my MCP servers not showing up after I edit the config?

Three common causes. (1) You did not fully quit Claude — quit the app, do not just close the window. (2) The JSON is malformed — paste it into a linter; a single missing comma breaks the whole config. (3) The MCP failed to start — check Settings → Developer → "Open Logs" for the actual error from the server process.

Can Claude Desktop use remote (HTTPS) MCP servers?

Yes. Claude Desktop supports both stdio and remote-HTTP MCP transports. Stdio is the default for community MCPs; remote is how official integrations like Notion, Linear, and Sentry connect. Both kinds are configured in the same claude_desktop_config.json — just check each MCP's detail page for the right transport.

Is MCP support the same in Claude Desktop and Claude Code?

The protocol is identical, but the configuration paths differ. Claude Desktop reads claude_desktop_config.json (per-user, GUI-managed). Claude Code reads .mcp.json (per-project, CLI-managed) plus ~/.claude.json (per-user CLI). An MCP that works in one will work in the other; the only thing that changes is where you put the config.

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