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hister
by asciimoo
everything
by modelcontextprotocol
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hister · Summary

Hister is a privacy-focused search engine with MCP support for AI-enhanced querying.

everything · Summary

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

hister · Use cases

  • Personal search engine for private web browsing history
  • Knowledge base indexing with AI-enhanced queries via MCP
  • Community search server with multi-user support

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

hister · Install

Installation

  1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/asciimoo/hister.git
  2. Build with ./manage.sh build or go generate ./...; go build
  3. For development with hot reload:

`` npm run serve:app ``

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add the following to your Claude Desktop configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hister": {
      "command": "path/to/hister",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

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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