guild vs everything

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

	guild by mathomhaus	everything by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 190	★ 85,748
30d uses	—	—
Score	51	77
Official	—	✓
Categories	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsProductivity	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther
Language	Go	TypeScript
Last commit	this month	this month

guild · Summary

Go-based MCP server providing shared context and task coordination for AI coding agents with hybrid search.

everything · Summary

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

guild · Use cases

Coordination between multiple AI coding agents working on the same project
Knowledge retention across different AI client sessions
Parallel development with task dependencies and atomic claims

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

guild · Install

Installation Options

**Recommended (with semantic retrieval):**

curl -fsSL https://github.com/mathomhaus/guild/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sh
guild --version

**Via Homebrew:**

brew install mathomhaus/tap/guild

**From source:**

git clone https://github.com/mathomhaus/guild
cd guild
make install   # includes semantic retrieval assets

Project Setup

cd ~/projects/myapp
guild init  # interactive setup process

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add to Claude Desktop's config.json:

"mcpServers": {
  "guild": {
    "command": "guild",
    "args": ["serve"]
  }
}

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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