everything vs shodan-mcp

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

	everything by modelcontextprotocol	shodan-mcp by Vorota-ai
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Categories	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther	SecurityDeveloper ToolsAI / LLM Tools
Language	TypeScript	Python
Last commit	this month	3 mo ago

everything · Summary

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

shodan-mcp · Summary

An MCP server providing 20 tools for Shodan reconnaissance, vulnerability intelligence, and DNS 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

shodan-mcp · Use cases

Security researchers conducting vulnerability reconnaissance
Network administrators monitoring exposed services
Developers investigating dependencies for security issues

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

shodan-mcp · Install

Docker (recommended)

docker build -t shodan-mcp https://github.com/vorotaai/shodan-mcp.git

Using uv

git clone https://github.com/vorotaai/shodan-mcp.git
cd shodan-mcp
uv sync --all-groups
shodan-mcp

Using pip

git clone https://github.com/vorotaai/shodan-mcp.git
cd shodan-mcp
pip install .
shodan-mcp

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shodan-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "--rm", "-i", "-e", "SHODAN_API_KEY", "shodan-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SHODAN_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

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