everything vs openaccountants

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	everything by modelcontextprotocol	openaccountants by openaccountants
Stars	★ 85,748	★ 66
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Score	77	46
Official	✓	—
Categories	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther	FinanceAI / LLM ToolsProductivity
Language	TypeScript	Python
Last commit	this month	this month

everything · Summary

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

openaccountants · Summary

Open-source tax skills for AI across 134 countries, accessible via MCP or manual upload.

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

openaccountants · Use cases

Automating tax preparation for small business owners and freelancers
Classifying bank transactions according to tax rules in different countries
Generating working papers for accountants to review
Retrieving jurisdiction-specific tax skills via MCP connection

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

openaccountants · Install

git clone https://github.com/openaccountants/openaccountants.git
cd openaccountants
pip install ./mcp

For Claude Desktop, add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openaccountants": {
      "command": "openaccountants-mcp"
    }
  }
}

For Cursor, add to .cursor/mcp.json or via Settings > MCP:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openaccountants": {
      "command": "openaccountants-mcp"
    }
  }
}

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