golf vs everything

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

	golf by golf-mcp	everything by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 824	★ 85,748
30d uses	—	—
Score	55	77
Official	—	✓
Categories	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOps & Infra	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther
Language	Python	TypeScript
Last commit	this month	this month

golf · Summary

Production-ready MCP server framework for building, deploying and scaling secure AI agent infrastructure with authentication, observability, and debugging capabilities.

everything · Summary

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

golf · Use cases

Building production-ready MCP servers with minimal boilerplate code
Implementing secure AI agents with enterprise-grade authentication
Creating scalable agent infrastructure with built-in observability and debugging

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

golf · Install

Installation

Install Golf using pip:

pip install golf-mcp

Initialize a new project:

golf init your-project-name

Run the development server:

cd your-project-name
golf build dev
golf run

For Claude Desktop integration, add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "golf": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "golf.cli", "run"],
      "env": {}
    }
  }
}

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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