skrills vs everything

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

	skrills by athola	everything by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 64	★ 85,748
30d uses	—	—
Score	48	77
Official	—	✓
Categories	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsProductivity	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther
Language	Rust	TypeScript
Last commit	this month	this month

skrills · Summary

A 36-tool MCP server that validates, analyzes, and syncs skills across Claude Code, Codex CLI, Copilot CLI, and Cursor.

everything · Summary

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

skrills · Use cases

Sync skills and configurations between Claude Code, Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Cursor
Validate skills against multiple AI coding assistant platforms with autofix capabilities
Analyze token usage and optimize context windows across AI assistants

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

skrills · Install

# macOS/Linux
curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/athola/skrills/HEAD/scripts/install.sh | sh

# Windows PowerShell
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoLogo -NoProfile -Command "
Remove-Item alias:curl -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue; iwr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/athola/skrills/HEAD/scripts/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex"

cargo install skrills

To use as MCP server:

skrills serve --stdio

For Claude Desktop integration, add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skrills": {
      "command": "skrills",
      "args": ["serve", "--stdio"]
    }
  }
}

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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