arbor vs everything

Side-by-side comparison to help you pick between these two MCP servers.

	arbor by Anandb71	everything by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 117	★ 85,748
30d uses	—	—
Score	49	77
Official	—	✓
Categories	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsKnowledge Graph	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther
Language	Rust	TypeScript
Last commit	this month	this month

arbor · Summary

A graph-native code intelligence tool with 10 MCP tools for analyzing code dependencies and impact.

everything · Summary

Official MCP test server exercising all protocol features for client builders.

arbor · Use cases

Analyzing code impact before refactoring
Finding all callers and callees of a function
Blocking PRs with high architectural blast radius in CI/CD
Exploring code structure and dependencies visually

everything · Use cases

Testing MCP client implementations against all protocol features
Learning MCP protocol capabilities through a reference server
Validating client compatibility with different transport methods

arbor · Install

Installation

CLI Installation

# Rust / Cargo
cargo install arbor-graph-cli

# Homebrew (macOS/Linux)
brew install Anandb71/tap/arbor

# Scoop (Windows)
scoop bucket add arbor https://github.com/Anandb71/arbor
scoop install arbor

# Docker
docker pull ghcr.io/anandb71/arbor:latest

MCP Integration

claude mcp add --transport stdio --scope project arbor -- arbor bridge
claude mcp list

Initialize a Project

cd your-project
arbor setup

Usage

# See what a function impacts
arbor refactor <symbol-name>

# Check impact of uncommitted changes
arbor diff

# Launch GUI
arbor gui

everything · Install

NPX (recommended)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
    }
  }
}

On Windows, use cmd /c:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "cmd",
      "args": ["/c", "npx", "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
    }
  }
}

Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "mcp/everything"]
    }
  }
}

Global install

npm install -g @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything@latest
npx @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything

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