mcp vs everything

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

	mcp by EmilLindfors	everything by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 18	★ 85,748
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Score	37	77
Official	—	✓
Categories	Developer ToolsFile SystemAI / LLM Tools	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther
Language	Rust	TypeScript
Last commit	18 mo ago	this month

mcp · Summary

Rust implementation of MCP providing standardized communication between AI models and external resources.

everything · Summary

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

mcp · Use cases

Building MCP servers that expose file system resources to AI models
Creating AI applications that need to access external data through MCP
Developing type-safe AI integrations using Rust with protocol enforcement

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

mcp · Install

Installation

Add to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
mcp = "0.1.0"

Running the Server

# Run with test config
cargo run --bin server -- --config "../servers/test.json"

# Run with stdio transport
cargo run --bin server -t stdio

# Run with SSE transport on port 3000
cargo run --bin server -t sse -p 3000

Claude Desktop Integration

Add to Claude's claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-rs": {
      "command": "cargo",
      "args": ["run", "--bin", "server", "--", "-t", "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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