kodit vs everything

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

	kodit by helixml	everything by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 119	★ 85,748
30d uses	—	—
Score	49	77
Official	—	✓
Categories	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsSearch	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther
Language	Go	TypeScript
Last commit	this month	this month

kodit · Summary

Kodit is a code and document intelligence server that indexes Git repositories and provides search through MCP and REST APIs.

everything · Summary

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

kodit · Use cases

Enhancing AI coding assistants by providing access to real examples from your codebase
Searching across both code and documentation in a unified interface
Generating architecture docs, API docs, and database schema documentation automatically

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

kodit · Install

Installation

Docker (recommended)

docker run -p 8080:8080 registry.helix.ml/helix/kodit:latest

Pre-built binaries

Download a binary from the [releases page](https://github.com/helixml/kodit/releases), then:

chmod +x kodit
./kodit serve

Claude Desktop integration

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kodit": {
      "command": "kodit",
      "args": ["serve"],
      "env": {
        "DATA_DIR": ".kodit"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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