hop vs everything

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

	hop by danmartuszewski	everything by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 47	★ 85,748
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Score	45	77
Official	—	✓
Categories	Developer ToolsOps & InfraProductivity	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther
Language	Go	TypeScript
Last commit	this month	this month

hop · Summary

An elegant SSH connection manager with TUI dashboard and MCP server for AI assistants.

everything · Summary

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

hop · Use cases

AI assistants managing SSH connections across multiple servers and environments
DevOps teams executing commands across production servers
Developers connecting to remote servers quickly with fuzzy matching

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

hop · Install

Installation

Homebrew (macOS/Linux)

brew install danmartuszewski/tap/hop

Go

go install github.com/danmartuszewski/hop/cmd/hop@latest

From source

git clone https://github.com/danmartuszewski/hop.git && cd hop && make build
./bin/hop

Claude Desktop Integration

Add to Claude Desktop's MCP config:

{ "hop": { "command": "hop", "args": ["mcp"] } }

claude mcp add hop -- hop mcp

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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