everything vs shebe

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

	everything by modelcontextprotocol	shebe by shebe-oss
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Language	TypeScript	Rust
Last commit	this month	3 mo ago

everything · Summary

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

shebe · Summary

Fast BM25 code search tool with 14 MCP tools for AI coding agents to find references and search codebases.

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

shebe · Use cases

Finding all references to a symbol in large codebases for refactoring
Searching polyglot codebases for specific patterns or functions
Impact analysis before making changes to unfamiliar repositories

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

shebe · Install

Installation

**Homebrew (macOS and Linux):**

brew tap shebe-oss/tap
brew install shebe

**Manual download (Linux x86_64):**

export SHEBE_VERSION=v0.5.8
curl -LO "https://github.com/shebe-oss/shebe-releases/releases/download/${SHEBE_VERSION}/shebe-${SHEBE_VERSION}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz"
curl -LO "https://github.com/shebe-oss/shebe-releases/releases/download/${SHEBE_VERSION}/shebe-${SHEBE_VERSION}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha256"
sha256sum -c shebe-${SHEBE_VERSION}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha256
tar -xzf shebe-${SHEBE_VERSION}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
sudo mv shebe shebe-mcp /usr/local/bin/

**Claude Desktop Configuration:** Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shebe": {
      "command": "shebe-mcp",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

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