kai vs everything

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

	kai by kaicontext	everything by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 16	★ 85,748
30d uses	—	—
Score	42	77
Official	—	✓
Categories	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsKnowledge Graph	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther
Language	Go	TypeScript
Last commit	this month	this month

kai · Summary

Kai is a semantic analysis engine for code changes that provides MCP tools for call graphs, dependencies, and impact analysis.

everything · Summary

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

kai · Use cases

Selective CI - only run tests impacted by code changes
AI code context - provide semantic understanding to AI assistants
Code reviews - show what changed functionally rather than just line diffs

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

kai · Install

# curl
curl -sSL https://get.kaicontext.com | sh

# Homebrew
brew install kaicontext/kai/kai

For Claude Code:

claude mcp add kai -- kai mcp serve

Or without installing kai:

claude mcp add kai -- npx -y kai-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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