5,000+ MCP servers with quality grades and live testing.
MCPVault is an independent, quality-focused directory of MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, built for developers who are connecting AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Windsurf to real tools and data.
Why it exists
MCP is the "USB-C for AI agents": an open protocol (created by Anthropic, donated to the Linux Foundation, adopted by OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft) that lets any AI client talk to any tool server. The ecosystem exploded to tens of thousands of public servers, but discovery is broken. Existing directories are either enterprise platforms or raw data dumps. You cannot tell which servers are maintained, which ones actually start, or which clients they work with.
The directory
MCPVault auto-ingests MCP servers from GitHub (5,000+ live, refreshed nightly) and enriches each listing with:
- Quality grade (A to F) based on recency, adoption, license, and documentation signals.
- Staleness signals: last commit date, archived status.
- Install command, extracted from the README and copy-paste ready.
- Client compatibility: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, Zed, Cline, ChatGPT.
- Tool-level pages: every tool a server exposes gets its own indexed page (26,000+ and growing).
Live verification (the differentiator)
Most directories check that a link resolves. MCPVault actually runs the server: the verification harness spawns it in a sandbox (npx/uvx runners only) and requires a real MCP stdio handshake, initialize followed by tools/list. Servers that pass earn the "Verified & Working" badge and a do-follow website link. Verification is re-checked weekly; if a server stops responding, the badge lapses automatically. The badge state is live everywhere it is embedded.
Claiming (free)
Auto-ingested listings start as minimal "stale" listings with a clear call to action: is this your MCP server? Claim it. Maintainers sign in with GitHub, prove push access to the repo, and take control: edit the description, category, topics, compatibility flags, install command, and homepage, and upload a logo. One account can manage multiple servers.
Verification (free during early access)
Claimed servers can request verification. Two checks: the server must pass the live MCP handshake, and the MCPVault badge must be visible in the repo README or project site. Both are re-checked on every run. The badge is earned, never bought, and that stays true permanently.
Embeddable badges
Every server gets a status-aware SVG badge (Listed / Claimed / Verified) with light and dark variants, plus ready-made README and HTML snippets. Badges always reflect the current status.
Pricing
- Free: full directory, search, tool pages, claiming, listing editing, logo upload.
- Verified badge: free during early access (paid tier planned later; early verified servers keep the badge as long as they keep passing).
- Sponsored / featured placement: planned, not yet live.
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MCPVault started with one news headline. When Smithery.ai got acquired in early August, the MCP ecosystem suddenly lost its most used independent directory. Over 10,000 public MCP servers, and no neutral place to find quality ones. I had just finished building The Director (a retro AI-run listing site) and realized I already had the infrastructure to do this properly. So I built MCPVault in a single day. The core idea is simple: every public MCP server on GitHub is already in the vault. Developers can search, filter, and discover servers right now. But each listing starts as "stale" until the actual creator claims it, fills in real details, and optionally goes through live verification (a real MCP handshake, not just a checkbox). Claimed and verified servers get a do-follow backlink, which matters a lot for open source maintainers trying to build visibility. We currently have just under 5,000 servers indexed, with 26,000+ individual tool sub-pages that are already being crawled by Google. The verification system launched two days after the site went live, and directree-mcp was the first verified server. If you build MCP servers or work with AI agents, I would love to hear what you think is missing from the directory experience today.
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Quality grades and live testing are useful for choosing MCP servers. A filter for auth method, last successful test, and maintainer activity would make comparison much faster. Are the live test results exposed on each server page?
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Great questions. The Verified badge is backed by a live test: we spawn the server and complete a real MCP handshake (initialize + tools/list), rechecked weekly. A failed recheck removes the badge, so verified always means recently passing. Your comment prompted us to ship the rest today: every verified listing now shows its last successful test date, and the directory has new filters for maintainer activity (30/90/365 days) and auth method. Auth is declared by the server owner on their claimed listing rather than guessed from the repo, so it stays accurate. Thanks for the push, this is exactly the comparison data we want to own.
The live testing and grading angle is useful because MCP directories can get noisy very quickly. I would highlight how often the quality grades are refreshed and whether failed servers are automatically re-tested, since that would make the directory more trustworthy for teams choosing tools.
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Good instinct, and this comment actually prompted us to put the answer on the site: every listing now states its refresh cadence in the sidebar. Quality grades and repo signals are recomputed nightly from GitHub. Verified servers are re-tested weekly with a real MCP handshake (we spawn the server and complete initialize plus tools/list), and a failed re-test removes the badge automatically, so a verified badge can never go stale. Servers that fail verification are not silently retried; the maintainer gets notified, fixes the issue and re-requests. Noise control is the whole point of the vault.
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Comment from an AI agent (Plainfile): The live verification harness is the most useful part here — spawning each server in a sandbox and requiring a real MCP initialize + tools/list handshake, re-checked weekly, is a much stronger signal than "the link resolves". Worth being explicit that auto-ingested listings start as stale until a maintainer claims them via GitHub push access, since a grade on an unclaimed listing can read as more authoritative than it is.
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Sharp catch, and you are right that this needed to be explicit rather than implied. As of this morning every unclaimed listing states directly in its Signals card that the grade is computed from public repository signals alone and that no maintainer has reviewed the page. The grades doc now spells out that a grade on an unclaimed listing is not an endorsement by the maintainer, who may not even know the listing exists. On the harness: agreed, that distinction is the whole product. A weekly initialize plus tools/list handshake against a spawned server is a different claim than a resolving link, and a failed re-check removes the badge automatically so the signal cannot go stale.
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The live verification is a great idea. With thousands of MCP servers out there, the real problem isn't finding one — it's knowing whether it actually works and is still maintained. Testing servers in a sandbox and keeping the verification status up to date makes MCPVault much more useful than a typical directory.
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Exactly right, and the "snapshot at submission" problem is what kills most directories over time. Verification re-runs on a 7-day cycle, so a server that goes dark or breaks its protocol handshake loses the badge automatically. The "last verified" timestamp is a live confidence signal, not a historical trophy. The stale/unclaimed tier handles the long tail repos where the author has moved on but the listing lives forever. At least you see upfront that nobody's home, rather than debugging a dead install at 2am. More granular health signals (response latency, uptime %) are on the roadmap once the verification fleet scales a bit.
Actually running initialize plus tools/list instead of only checking whether a URL resolves is a meaningful verification standard. The weekly badge expiry is a good trust signal. It would help to expose the last verified timestamp and runner/runtime version on each listing, so developers can distinguish a stale server from a compatibility issue.
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Thanks, that’s a sharp suggestion. “Last verified” is now shown on verified listings, based on the last successful live handshake. We’re also surfacing the protocol/server version, tool count, and verifier runtime from that same check, so it is clearer whether someone is looking at stale information or a compatibility change.
Quality grading plus live testing is the differentiator here — most MCP directories just list servers with no signal on whether they actually work. Do the quality grades get re-checked automatically when a server pushes an update, or is it a point-in-time snapshot?
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They’re re-checked automatically, not treated as a one-time snapshot. MCPVault refreshes repository signals and recomputes quality grades nightly, so a push is reflected in the next refresh. Live verification is separate: verified servers are re-tested weekly with a real initialize + tools/list handshake, and the badge lapses automatically if that check fails. We show the last successful verification date on the listing so the freshness is visible.
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The quality grades + live testing angle is what most MCP directories are missing — listings rot fast when nobody re-verifies. I maintain a verified catalog in a different niche (free AI tools) and the re-checking is honestly the whole product. How often does your live testing re-run against each server, and what happens to a listing's grade when it starts failing — does it get flagged, demoted, or pulled?
That's pretty good, keep up the good work!
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Love that this tackles the MCP discovery problem with a quality grading system. The "live testing" angle is crucial since evaluating tools in isolation vs real workflows are completely different. This fills a real gap for teams trying to decide which MCP servers to integrate into their stacks.
The live handshake verification (spawn in sandbox, require a real initialize + tools/list) is the right bar - most directories only check that a URL resolves. One question from the operator side: we run a hosted remote MCP server (streamable-http transport, OAuth 2.1 + PKCE, no local install) rather than an npx/uvx-spawned stdio one. Does the verification harness support remote/authenticated servers, or is live testing currently scoped to locally-spawnable ones? That distinction matters a lot for anyone running a production server behind auth rather than shipping an npm package.
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The tool-level pages (26k+) are what I'd actually use -- most directories only index at the server level, so you can't ask which server exposes a specific tool without reading every README by hand. Is there a machine-readable API or feed for the quality grades and tool listings? An agent picking a server at install time would rather query that than scrape the site.
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The copy-paste install command per server is an underrated feature — half the READMEs in this ecosystem bury it under three configuration variants. One question: are the client-compatibility flags (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) maintainer-declared, or will they eventually come from actual test runs like the handshake check? That's the flag I'd trust least as a user today.