everything vs narsil-mcp

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

	everything by modelcontextprotocol	narsil-mcp by postrv
Stars	★ 85,748	★ 151
30d uses	—	—
Score	77	51
Official	✓	—
Categories	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsSecurity
Language	TypeScript	Rust
Last commit	this month	this month

everything · Summary

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

narsil-mcp · Summary

Rust MCP server providing 90+ code intelligence tools across 32 languages with neural search and security analysis.

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

narsil-mcp · Use cases

Code analysis and refactoring in large codebases
Security auditing and vulnerability scanning
Neural code search and similarity matching

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

narsil-mcp · Install

Installation

**macOS / Linux (Homebrew):**

brew tap postrv/narsil
brew install narsil-mcp

**Windows (Scoop):**

scoop bucket add narsil https://github.com/postrv/scoop-narsil
scoop install narsil-mcp

**Rust/Cargo (all platforms):**

cargo install narsil-mcp

**Node.js/npm (all platforms):**

npm install -g narsil-mcp

Claude Desktop Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "narsil-mcp": {
      "command": "narsil-mcp",
      "args": ["--repos", "~/projects"]
    }
  }
}

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