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everything
by modelcontextprotocol
gnosis-mcp
by nicholasglazer
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Last committhis month1 mo ago

everything · Summary

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

gnosis-mcp · Summary

Zero-config MCP server for searchable documentation with SQLite/PostgreSQL backends.

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

gnosis-mcp · Use cases

  • AI agent searching through project documentation
  • Retrieval-augmented generation for codebases
  • Knowledge base search with semantic understanding

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

gnosis-mcp · Install

pip install gnosis-mcp           # or: uv tool install gnosis-mcp
gnosis-mcp ingest ./docs/        # loads docs into SQLite (auto-created)
gnosis-mcp serve                 # starts MCP server

For Claude Desktop, add to Claude Desktop config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "docs": {
      "command": "gnosis-mcp",
      "args": ["serve"]
    }
  }
}
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