brave-search-mcp vs everything

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	brave-search-mcp by mikechao	everything by modelcontextprotocol
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Language	TypeScript	TypeScript
Last commit	2 mo ago	this month

brave-search-mcp · Summary

MCP server integrating Brave Search API with web, image, video, news, local POI, and LLM context search capabilities.

everything · Summary

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

brave-search-mcp · Use cases

Enhancing AI assistants with real-time web search capabilities
Research workflows requiring comprehensive web content extraction
Applications needing multi-modal search results (images, videos, news)
Local business information retrieval for service-based applications

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

brave-search-mcp · Install

Installation

Get a Brave Search API key from [Brave Search API account](https://brave.com/search/api/)

Using Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcp-servers": {
    "brave-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "brave-search-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BRAVE_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

Running as standalone

BRAVE_API_KEY="your_key_here" npx -y brave-search-mcp

For HTTP mode:

BRAVE_API_KEY="your_key_here" npx -y brave-search-mcp --http

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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