hookdeck-cli vs everything

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

	hookdeck-cli by hookdeck	everything by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 357	★ 85,748
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Score	50	77
Official	—	✓
Categories	Developer ToolsCommunicationAI / LLM Tools	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther
Language	Go	TypeScript
Last commit	this month	this month

hookdeck-cli · Summary

Hookdeck CLI provides a comprehensive MCP server for managing webhooks and event gateway resources, offering free development tools with ai agent integration.

everything · Summary

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

hookdeck-cli · Use cases

Local development and testing of webhook integrations with preserved event history
Managing and querying Event Gateway resources through a unified CLI interface
Integrating webhook management capabilities into AI agents via MCP protocol

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

hookdeck-cli · Install

Installation

Hookdeck CLI is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux:

# NPM
npm install hookdeck-cli -g

# macOS
brew install hookdeck/hookdeck/hookdeck

# Windows
scoop bucket add hookdeck https://github.com/hookdeck/scoop-hookdeck-cli.git
scoop install hookdeck

# Linux
tar -xvf hookdeck_X.X.X_linux_amd64.tar.gz
./hookdeck

MCP Server Setup

To use with Claude Desktop, add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hookdeck": {
      "command": "hookdeck",
      "args": ["gateway", "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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