# mcpnav

> mcpnav.dev is a directory of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers: 5,950+ curated or starred servers, with connect configs generated from each server's published packages and remotes. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (CC0) and the MIT-licensed punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers and wong2/awesome-mcp-servers lists.

Notes for agents:

- Every server page is /servers/<slug>/ and the same record is available as JSON at /api/v1/servers/<slug>.json.
- "official" means a curated list marked it official; it does not mean endorsement by the Official MCP Registry. mcpnav is not affiliated with the MCP project.
- Bulk machine-readable data: /api/v1/servers.json (license block inside; upstream terms apply).

## Categories

- [Development](https://mcpnav.dev/category/development/): 939 servers
- [Productivity](https://mcpnav.dev/category/productivity/): 247 servers
- [Databases & Data](https://mcpnav.dev/category/database/): 314 servers
- [Search & Research](https://mcpnav.dev/category/search/): 386 servers
- [Browser Automation & Scraping](https://mcpnav.dev/category/browser-automation/): 133 servers
- [File Systems](https://mcpnav.dev/category/file-system/): 47 servers
- [Version Control](https://mcpnav.dev/category/version-control/): 41 servers
- [Communication](https://mcpnav.dev/category/communication/): 285 servers
- [Cloud & Monitoring](https://mcpnav.dev/category/cloud/): 250 servers
- [Security](https://mcpnav.dev/category/security/): 262 servers
- [Marketing & E-Commerce](https://mcpnav.dev/category/marketing/): 181 servers
- [Finance](https://mcpnav.dev/category/finance/): 505 servers
- [Design & Media](https://mcpnav.dev/category/design/): 328 servers
- [Knowledge & Memory](https://mcpnav.dev/category/memory/): 389 servers
- [Other](https://mcpnav.dev/category/other/): 1647 servers

## Hubs

- [Official servers](https://mcpnav.dev/official/)
- [Remote (hosted) servers](https://mcpnav.dev/remote/)
- [Tools index](https://mcpnav.dev/tools/)
- [Search](https://mcpnav.dev/search/)
- [Submit a server](https://mcpnav.dev/submit/)

## Data

- [servers.json](https://mcpnav.dev/api/v1/servers.json): all indexable servers, with license block
- [search-index.json](https://mcpnav.dev/api/v1/search-index.json): compact index for search
- [groups.json](https://mcpnav.dev/api/v1/groups.json)
- [topics.json](https://mcpnav.dev/api/v1/topics.json)
- [remote-status.json](https://mcpnav.dev/api/v1/remote-status.json): reachability probes of remote endpoints

## Docs

- [About and data sources](https://mcpnav.dev/about/)
- [Learn: Add an MCP server to Claude Code](https://mcpnav.dev/learn/add-mcp-server-to-claude-code/): claude mcp add for HTTP, SSE and stdio servers, the three config scopes, headers and OAuth, and ${VAR} expansion in .mcp.json.
- [Learn: Add an MCP server to Codex](https://mcpnav.dev/learn/add-mcp-server-to-codex/): How OpenAI Codex configures MCP servers: codex mcp add, the [mcp_servers.<name>] tables in config.toml, HTTP headers, bearer tokens and OAuth.
- [Learn: Add an MCP server to Cursor](https://mcpnav.dev/learn/add-mcp-server-to-cursor/): Where Cursor's mcp.json lives, the stdio and remote entry formats, ${env:NAME} interpolation, OAuth fields, and how to debug a server.
- [Learn: MCP server security checklist](https://mcpnav.dev/learn/mcp-server-security-checklist/): A checklist for installing MCP servers safely: trusted sources, package provenance, least privilege, secrets out of config, and remote endpoint auth.
- [Learn: Remote vs local MCP servers](https://mcpnav.dev/learn/remote-vs-local-mcp-servers/): What changes when an MCP server is a URL instead of a process on your machine: data flow, auth headers, OAuth, and the failure modes of each.
- [Learn: What is an MCP server?](https://mcpnav.dev/learn/what-is-an-mcp-server/): Hosts, clients and servers; tools, resources and prompts; and how stdio and Streamable HTTP carry MCP messages, per the current spec.

## Optional

- [Topics index](https://mcpnav.dev/topics/): topic pages
- [MCP specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18)
- [Official MCP Registry](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io)