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aura
by mezmo
everything
by modelcontextprotocol
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AI / LLM ToolsDeveloper ToolsProductivity
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LanguageRustTypeScript
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aura · Summary

A production-ready AI agent framework with MCP tool integration, RAG pipelines, and OpenAI-compatible API.

everything · Summary

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

aura · Use cases

  • Building multi-agent AI systems with specialized worker agents
  • Creating production-ready chat applications with MCP tool integration
  • Implementing RAG pipelines for knowledge-augmented AI assistants

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

aura · Install

Installation

  1. Install Rust:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
  1. Clone and configure:
git clone https://github.com/mezmo/aura
cd aura
cp examples/reference.toml config.toml
  1. Set required environment variables:
export OPENAI_API_KEY="your-api-key"
  1. Build:
cargo build --release
  1. Run the web server:
cargo run --bin aura-web-server

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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