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# Awesome MCP DevTools [](https://awesome.re)
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A curated list of developer tools, SDKs, libraries, utilities, and resources for working with **Model Context Protocol (MCP)** servers.
## Contents
- [Awesome MCP DevTools ](#awesome-mcp-devtools-)
- [Contents](#contents)
- [Community](#community)
- [Legend](#legend)
- [SDKs](#sdks)
- [JavaScript/TypeScript](#javascripttypescript)
- [Python](#python)
- [Java](#java)
- [Go](#go)
- [Rust](#rust)
- [Kotlin](#kotlin)
- [C#/.NET](#cnet)
- [Scala](#scala)
- [Dart](#dart)
- [Ruby](#ruby)
- [Elixir](#elixir)
- [C/C++](#cc)
- [Swift](#swift)
- [Frameworks](#frameworks)
- [Testing Tools](#testing-tools)
- [Authorization Testing](#authorization-testing)
- [Libraries](#libraries)
- [Utilities](#utilities)
- [Proxies and Gateways](#proxies-and-gateways)
- [Development Tools](#development-tools)
- [Hosting](#hosting)
- [Templates](#templates)
- [Resources](#resources)
- [Tutorials](#tutorials)
- [Related awesome lists:](#related-awesome-lists)
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## Community
* [r/mcp Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/mcp)
* [Discord Server](https://glama.ai/mcp/discord)
## Legend
* 🎖️ official MCP resource
* programming language
* #️⃣ - C# Codebase
* 〽️ – Scala codebase
* ☕ - Java codebase
* 🎯 - Dart codebase
* 🏎️ – Go codebase
* 🐍 – Python codebase
* 💎 – Ruby codebase
* 📇 – TypeScript codebase
* 🔶 - Kotlin codebase
* 🦀 – Rust codebase
* 🌊 – C/C++ codebase
* 🍎 – Swift codebase
* 💧 – Elixir codebase
## SDKs
> Software Development Kits for MCP server development.
<details><summary>How are SDKs ordered?</summary>
SDKs are ordered by their popularity as determined by GitHub stars.
If an SDK is part of a monorepo, it should have a name in the form of `github-owner/github-repo#project-name`.
If an SDK is part of a monorepo, its popularity is counted as 0 stars.
</details>
### JavaScript/TypeScript
- [FastMCP](https://github.com/punkpeye/fastmcp) 📇 - A high-level framework for building MCP servers in TypeScript
- [QuantGeekDev/mcp-framework](https://github.com/QuantGeekDev/mcp-framework) 📇 - Fast and elegant TypeScript framework for building MCP servers
- [wong2/LiteMCP](https://github.com/wong2/litemcp) 📇 - A high-level framework for building MCP servers in JavaScript/TypeScript
- [ModelFetch](https://github.com/phuctm97/modelfetch) 📇 - A runtime-agnostic SDK to create and deploy MCP servers anywhere TypeScript/JavaScript runs
- [ribeirogab/simple-mcp](https://github.com/ribeirogab/simple-mcp) 📇 - A simple TypeScript library for creating MCP servers
- [firebase/genkit#mcp](https://github.com/firebase/genkit/tree/main/js/plugins/mcp) 📇 – Provides integration between [Genkit](https://github.com/firebase/genkit/tree/main) and the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- [MCPcat](https://github.com/mcpcat/mcpcat-typescript-sdk) 📇 - User analytics, session tracking, and live debugging for MCPs
### Python
- [FastMCP](https://github.com/jlowin/fastmcp) 🐍 - A high-level framework for building MCP servers in Python
- [mcp-use](https://github.com/mcp-use/mcp-use) 🐍 - Open source python library to very easily connect any LLM to any MCP server both locally and remotely.
- [langchain-mcp](https://github.com/rectalogic/langchain-mcp) 🐍 - Provides MCP tool calling support in LangChain
- [tadata-org/fastapi_mcp](https://github.com/tadata-org/fastapi_mcp) 🐍 - Provides MCP wrapping on top of existing FastAPI REST endpoints
- [easymcp](https://github.com/promptmesh/easymcp) 🐍 - A high level asyncio native client SDK with native support for namespaced servers and caching.
- [mcp-cli](https://github.com/tileshq/mcp-cli) 🐍 - A lightweight CLI MCP client to connect with remote MCP servers.
- [MCPcat](https://github.com/mcpcat/mcpcat-python-sdk) 🐍 - User analytics, session tracking, and live debugging for MCPs
- [basementstudio/xmcp](http://github.com/raw-labs/mxcp) 🐍 - Open-source framework for building secure, testable, enterprise-grade MCP tools from SQL or Python on top of dbt + DuckDB.
### Java
- [quarkus-mcp-server](https://github.com/quarkiverse/quarkus-mcp-server) ☕ - Java SDK for building MCP servers using Quarkus
- [spring-ai-mcp](https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-ai-mcp) ☕ - Java SDK and Spring Framework integration for building MCP client and MCP servers
### Go
- [ggoodman/mcp-server-go](https://github.com/ggoodman/mcp-server-go) 🏎️ - Build MCP servers that scale from a 20‑line stdio prototype to a horizontally scaled, OIDC‑protected streaming HTTP deployment — without rewriting business logic.
- [mark3labs/mcp-go](https://github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go) 🏎️ - Golang SDK for building MCP Servers and Clients
- [metoro-io/mcp-golang](https://github.com/metoro-io/mcp-golang) 🏎️ - Golang framework for building MCP Servers, focussed on type safety
- [strowk/foxy-contexts](https://github.com/strowk/foxy-contexts) 🏎️ - Golang library to write MCP Servers declaratively with functional testing included
### Rust
- [linux-china/mcp-rs-template](https://github.com/linux-china/mcp-rs-template) 🦀 - MCP CLI server template for Rust
- [Epistates/TurboMCP](https://github.com/Epistates/turbomcp) 🦀 - TurboMCP SDK: Enterprise MCP SDK
- [poem-web/poem#poem-mcpserver](https://github.com/poem-web/poem/tree/master/poem-mcpserver) 🦀 - MCP Server implementation for Poem
### Kotlin
- [http4k MCP SDK](https://mcp.http4k.org) 🔶 - Functional, testable Kotlin SDK based around the popular [http4k](https://http4k.org) Web toolkit
### C#/.NET
- [salty-flower/ModelContextProtocol.NET](https://github.com/salty-flower/ModelContextProtocol.NET) #️⃣ - A C# SDK for building MCP servers on .NET 9 with NativeAOT compatibility ⚡ 🔌
### Scala
- [mullerhai/sakura-mcp](https://github.com/mullerhai/sakura-mcp) 〽️ - Scala MCP Framework for Building effective agents with MCP servers and clients
### Dart
- [leehack/mcp_dart](https://github.com/leehack/mcp_dart/) 🎯 - This library aims to provide a simple and intuitive way to implement MCP servers and clients in Dart
### Ruby
- [modelcontextprotocol/ruby-sdk](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/ruby-sdk) 💎 🎖️ - Official Ruby SDK for building MCP servers
- [tidewave-ai/tidewave_rails](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_rails) 💎 - Ruby on Rails MCP, speed up development with AI assistants that understand your web application, how it runs, and what it delivers
### Elixir
- [tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix](https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix) 💧 - Phoenix MCP, speed up development with AI assistants that understand your web application, how it runs, and what it delivers
### C/C++
- [micl2e2/mcpc](https://github.com/micl2e2/mcpc) 🌊 - Modern C SDK for building MCP servers/clients.
### Swift
- [modelcontextprotocol/swift-sdk](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/swift-sdk) 🍎 🎖️ - Official Swift SDK for building with MCP.
## Frameworks
> High-level frameworks for working with MCP servers
- [lastmile-ai/mcp-agent](https://github.com/lastmile-ai/mcp-agent) 🤖 🔌 - Build effective agents with MCP servers using simple, composable patterns
- [mcpdotdirect/template-mcp-server](https://github.com/mcpdotdirect/template-mcp-server) 📇 - A CLI tool to create a new MCP server project with TypeScript support
- [p-funk/FEGIS](https://github.com/p-funk/FEGIS) 🐍 - A semantic programming framework for LLMs that compiles YAML archetypes into structured tools with built-in memory and meaning. Each interaction becomes part of an emergent knowledge graph, enabling persistent, semantic retrieval and reuse.
- [sebastianbuzdugan/framework-rai-mcp](https://github.com/sebastianbuzdugan/framework-rai-mcp) 📇 - A responsible AI MCP server framework focused on ethical deployment in startups and enterprise prototypes.
- [sendaifun/solana-agent-kit#agent-kit-mcp-server](https://github.com/sendaifun/solana-agent-kit/tree/main/examples/agent-kit-mcp-server) - Solana MCP SDK
- [stephencme/create-mcp-ts](https://github.com/stephencme/create-mcp-ts) 📇 - Create a new MCP server in TypeScript, batteries included - supports user-defined templates!
- [Upsonic/gpt-computer-assistant](https://github.com/Upsonic/gpt-computer-assistant) 🐍 – Framework to build vertical AI agent
- [microsoft/semantic-kernel](https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel) 🐍 #️⃣ – Enterprise-ready orchestration framework MCP compatible from Microsoft to build intelligent AI agents and multi-agent systems.
- [xmcp](https://github.com/basementstudio/xmcp) 📇 - A TypeScript framework with file-system routing & complete toolkit
## Testing Tools
> Tools for testing MCP servers and clients
- [mclenhard/mcp-evals](https://github.com/mclenhard/mcp-evals) 🤖 - Package and Github action for running evals.
- [mcpjam/inspector](https://github.com/MCPJam/inspector) - Testing and debugging MCP servers.
- [modelcontextprotocol/inspector](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector) 📇 🎖️ - UI for testing MCP servers.
- [wong2/mcp-cli](https://github.com/wong2/mcp-cli) 🤖 - Command line inspector for manual testing
- [muppet-kit/inspector](https://github.com/muppet-dev/kit) - MCP Inspector with AI-assisted debugging and testing capabilities.
- [loopwork-ai/Companion](https://github.com/loopwork-ai/Companion) - Companion is a utility for testing and debugging your MCP servers on macOS, iOS, and visionOS.
### Authorization Testing
> Resources for testing MCP servers with authentication and authorization
- [NapthaAI/http-oauth-mcp-server](https://github.com/NapthaAI/http-oauth-mcp-server) 📇 - Example implementation of a remote MCP server with OAuth authentication
- [modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/tree/main/examples/servers/simple-auth/mcp_simple_auth) 🐍 🎖️ - Example authenticated SSE server in the official Python SDK
Public test endpoints:
- [Asana MCP Server](https://mcp.asana.com/sse) - Production SSE endpoint for testing OAuth flows
- [Sentry MCP Server](https://mcp.sentry.dev/sse) - Production SSE endpoint for testing OAuth flows
- [Atlassian MCP Server](https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse) - Production SSE endpoint for testing OAuth flows (requires allowlisting)
## Libraries
> Reusable code libraries and components for MCP servers
- [marimo-team/codemirror-mcp](https://github.com/marimo-team/codemirror-mcp) 📇 - CodeMirror extension that implements MCP for resource mentions and prompt commands
- [jhgaylor/express-mcp-handlder](https://github.com/jhgaylor/express-mcp-handler) 📇 - Bind an MCP server to an express server using the StreamableHTTP Transport
- [JoshuaSiraj/mcp_auto_register](https://github.com/JoshuaSiraj/mcp_auto_register) 🐍 – Tool to automate the registration of functions and classes from a Python package into a FastMCP instance
- [isaacwasserman/mcp-langchain-ts-client](https://github.com/isaacwasserman/mcp-langchain-ts-client) 📇 – Use MCP provided tools in LangChain.js
- [traceloop/openllmetry#opentelemetry-instrumentation-mcp](https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry/tree/main/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-mcp) 🐍 - OpenTelemetry instrumentation for MCP Python that captures tool calls, notifications, listing, initialization handshakes and propagates traces from client to server.
## Utilities
> Useful tools for debugging, proxying, testing, and working with MCP servers
### Proxies and Gateways
- [adiom-data/grpcmcp](https://github.com/adiom-data/grpcmcp) 🏎️ - A MCP Server that allows access to gRPC API services.
- [boilingdata/mcp-server-and-gw](https://github.com/boilingdata/mcp-server-and-gw) 📇 - An MCP stdio to HTTP SSE transport gateway
- [emicklei/mcp-log-proxy](https://github.com/emicklei/mcp-log-proxy) 🏎️ - An MCP proxy server that offers a Web UI to see the complete message flow.
- [EvalsOne/MCP-Connect](https://github.com/EvalsOne/MCP-Connect) 📇 - A tiny tool that enables cloud-based AI services to access local Stdio based MCP servers via HTTP/HTTPS
- [fangyinc/mcpport](https://github.com/fangyinc/mcpport) 🐍 - A lightweight gateway & registry for MCP servers with NAT traversal support, allowing edge devices to provide MCP services across networks. Features include WebSocket/SSE/HTTP endpoints, authentication, IPv6 support, and a CLI tool for easy registration of stdio-based MCP servers.
- [hamidra/yamcp](https://github.com/hamidra/yamcp) 📇 - An MCP workspace manager to bundle and manage MCP servers in dedicated local workspaces (e.g., for coding, design, research).
- [lightconetech/mcp-gateway](https://github.com/lightconetech/mcp-gateway) 📇 - A gateway demo for MCP SSE Server
- [mcpjungle/MCPJungle](https://github.com/mcpjungle/MCPJungle) 🌳 - Self-hosted MCP Registry and Proxy for ai agents
- [multi-mcp](https://github.com/kfirtoledo/multi-mcp) 🐍 - A flexible and dynamic Multi-MCP Proxy Server that acts as a single MCP server while connecting to and routing between multiple backend MCP servers over STDIO or SSE. Deployable on Kubernetes by exposing a single port, and supports dynamic addition and removal of MCP servers at runtime.
- [punkpeye/mcp-proxy](https://github.com/punkpeye/mcp-proxy) 📇 - A TypeScript SSE proxy for MCP servers that use `stdio` transport
- [SecretiveShell/MCP-Bridge](https://github.com/SecretiveShell/MCP-Bridge) 🐍 – An openAI middleware proxy to use MCP in any existing openAI compatible client
- [sparfenyuk/mcp-proxy](https://github.com/sparfenyuk/mcp-proxy) 🐍 – An MCP stdio to SSE transport gateway
- [TBXark/mcp-proxy](https://github.com/TBXark/mcp-proxy) 🏎️ - An MCP proxy server that aggregates multiple MCP resource servers through a single HTTP server
### Development Tools
- [inercia/mcpshell](https://github.com/inercia/mcpshell) 🏎️ - Use shell scripts as MCP tools.
- [ithena-one/ithena-cli](https://github.com/ithena-one/ithena-cli) 🏎️ - Wraps MCP commands to log interactions locally, facilitating debugging and interaction audits. Optional cloud.
- [f/MCPTools](https://github.com/f/mcptools) 🏎️ - A command-line development tool for inspecting and interacting with MCP servers
- [flux159/mcp-chat](https://github.com/flux159/mcp-chat) 📇 - A CLI based client to chat and connect with any MCP server
- [mark3labs/mcphost](https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost) 🏎️ - A CLI host application that enables LLMs to interact with external tools through MCP
- [strowk/mcp-autotest](https://github.com/strowk/mcp-autotest) 🏎️ - A command-line tool for running YAML based language-agnostic autotests
- [strowk/synf](https://github.com/strowk/synf) 🦀 - Tool to hot-reload MCP server on changes to saved files
- [strowk/mcptee](https://github.com/strowk/mcptee/) 🏎️ - Tool to proxy MCP and log inputs and outputs to YAML file
- [StacklokLabs/toolhive](https://github.com/Stacklok/toolhive) 🏎️ - A lightweight utility designed to simplify the deployment and management of MCP servers, ensuring ease of use, consistency, and security through containerization
- [addozhang/spring-rest-to-mcp](https://github.com/addozhang/spring-rest-to-mcp) 🏎️ - An [OpenRewrite](https://docs.openrewrite.org/) recipe collection that automatically converts Spring Web REST APIs to Spring AI Model Context Protocol (MCP) server tools.
- [taskade/mcp](https://github.com/taskade/mcp/tree/main/packages/openapi-codegen) 📇 - Generate MCP tools from OpenAPI schemas. Supports auto-linking, response normalization, and MCP server integration.
## Hosting
> Libraries & platforms for hosting MCP servers.
- [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers) – offers hosting of open-source MCP servers, enabling developers and enterprises to easily discover build, manage MCP servers.
- [Smithery](https://smithery.ai/) - cloud hosting MCP servers as a service via docker containers
## Templates
> Example code ready to be made into a component of an MCP system.
- [fastmcp-boilerplate](https://github.com/punkpeye/fastmcp-boilerplate) 📇 – A simple MCP server built using FastMCP, TypeScript, ESLint, and Prettier.
- [dart-mcp-server-template](https://github.com/jhgaylor/dart-mcp-server-template) 🎯 - A template repository for creating Dart MCP servers. Provides a starting point with Docker configuration, http+stdio transport bindings, and a standard Dart project structure
- [rails-mcp-startup-boilerplate](https://github.com/f/mcp-startup-boilerplate) 💎 - A Rails template for creating Paid MCP servers compatible with Claude Integrations. It uses Rails 8.0.2, Devise, Doorkeeper, FastMCP and Stripe. Has a built-in UI.
## Resources
> Documentation, guides, standards, and learning materials for Model Context Protocol and MCP server development.
- [Model Context Protocol Specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) — Official MCP specification
- [Model Context Protocol (MCP) Quickstart](https://glama.ai/blog/2024-11-25-model-context-protocol-quickstart)
## Tutorials
* [Setup Claude Desktop App to Use a SQLite Database](https://youtu.be/wxCCzo9dGj0)
* [amirshk/mcp-secrets-plugin](https://github.com/amirshk/mcp-secrets-plugin) 🐍 - A reference code to securely store and retrieve sensitive information using the system's native keychain
* [AI Agents for beginners by Microsoft](https://youtu.be/OhI005_aJkA?si=4nclgu-qAGgM57RJ) 🐍 #️⃣ Full Course (Lessons 1–10) using Semantic Kernel – Theoretical and practical content (1 hour)
## Related awesome lists:
- [awesome-mcp-servers](https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers)
- [awesome-mcp-clients](https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-clients)
