MCP tools and infrastructure
Model Context Protocol Ecosystem
MCP servers, clients, registries, gateways, and agent tools built around the Model Context Protocol.
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- Which MCP role does the project serve: server, client, gateway, registry, or development tooling?
- Are authentication, permission, and secret-handling boundaries documented?
- Does the release history show compatibility work as the protocol evolves?
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Leading projects in this ecosystem
Ordered by ToolVitals score, health, shipping, confidence, and adoption tie-breakers. Openness labels are shown explicitly.
| # | Tool | Health | Shipping | Stars | Openness | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hermes AgentThe agent that grows with you | 99 | 100 | 243.6k | OSI-approved OSS | 99 |
| 2 | OpenClawYour own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. ๐ฆ | 99 | 99 | 389.3k | OSI-approved OSS | 99 |
| 3 | RAGFlowRAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge RAG with Agent capabilities to create a superior context layer for LLMs | 99 | 99 | 90.4k | OSI-approved OSS | 99 |
| 4 | MastraFramework for building AI-powered applications and agents with TypeScript. | 99 | 99 | 27.9k | OSI-approved OSS | 99 |
| 5 | UnslothWeb UI for training and running open models like Gemma 4, Qwen3.5, DeepSeek, gpt-oss locally. | 98 | 99 | 75.9k | OSI-approved OSS | 99 |
| 6 | OrcaIDE for building with coding agents. | 98 | 99 | 65k | OSI-approved OSS | 99 |
| 7 | CopilotKitThe Frontend Stack for Agents & Generative UI. React + Angular. Makers of the AG-UI Protocol | 98 | 99 | 37.3k | OSI-approved OSS | 99 |
| 8 | ElizaOSAutonomous agents for everyone | 98 | 99 | 19.3k | OSI-approved OSS | 99 |
| 9 | OmiAI that sees your screen, listens to your conversations and tells you what to do | 98 | 99 | 13.4k | OSI-approved OSS | 99 |
| 10 | Kilo CodeKilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source coding agent. | 98 | 99 | 27.2k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 11 | Entire CLIGit workflow tool that captures AI agent sessions and indexes them alongside commits. | 98 | 99 | 5.1k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 12 | Vellum AssistantPersonal AI assistant with memory and proactive reach-outs. | 98 | 99 | 1.2k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 13 | OpenCodeThe open source coding agent. | 98 | 98 | 206.1k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 14 | PiAI agent toolkit: coding agent CLI, unified LLM API, TUI & web UI libraries, Slack bot, vLLM pods | 98 | 98 | 103.4k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 15 | Goosean open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM | 98 | 98 | 54.1k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 16 | MulticaThe open-source managed agents platform. Turn coding agents into real teammates โ assign tasks, track progress, compound skills. | 98 | 98 | 49.4k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 17 | LocalAILocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required. | 98 | 98 | 49k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 18 | OpenVikingSelf-evolving Context Database for AI Agents. Unify Agent Memory, Knowledge RAG and Skills. | 98 | 98 | 36.6k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 19 | OnyxOpen Source AI Platform - AI Chat with advanced features that works with every LLM | 98 | 98 | 32k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 20 | ComposioComposio powers 1000+ toolkits, tool search, context management, authentication, and a sandboxed workbench to help you build AI agents that turn intent into action. | 98 | 98 | 30.1k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 21 | ActivepiecesAI Agents & MCPs & AI Workflow Automation โข (~400 MCP servers for AI agents) โข AI Automation / AI Agent with MCPs โข AI Workflows & AI Agents โข MCPs for AI Agents | 98 | 98 | 24.4k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 22 | PaseoOrchestrate coding agents remotely from your phone, desktop and CLI | 98 | 98 | 16.8k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 23 | BifrostFastest enterprise AI gateway (50x faster than LiteLLM) with adaptive load balancer, cluster mode, guardrails, 1000+ models support & <100 ยตs overhead at 5k RPS. | 98 | 98 | 8k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 24 | RepoWiseCodebase intelligence for AI-assisted engineering teams โ auto-generated docs, git analytics, dead code detection, and architectural decisions via MCP. | 98 | 98 | 6.4k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 25 | SanitySanity Studio โ Rapidly configure content workspaces powered by structured content | 98 | 98 | 6.3k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 26 | agent-of-empiresTool for managing multiple coding agents from web or TUI. | 98 | 98 | 3.2k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 27 | OpenHands๐ OpenHands: AI-Driven Development | 98 | 97 | 87k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 28 | OpenAI Agents SDKA lightweight, powerful framework for multi-agent workflows | 98 | 97 | 29.3k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 29 | HaystackOpen-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems. | 98 | 97 | 26.5k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 30 | InsForgeOpen-source backend platform for agentic coding with database, auth, storage, compute, hosting, and AI gateway components. | 98 | 97 | 12.9k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 31 | Kaneo๐ฏ All you need. Nothing you don't. Open source project management that works for you, not against you. | 98 | 97 | 9k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 32 | Deco StudioOpen-source control plane for managing AI agents, tools, and usage. | 97 | 99 | 405 | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 33 | CuaOpen-source infrastructure for computer-use agents, with sandboxes, SDKs, and benchmarks. | 97 | 98 | 22.4k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 34 | Assistant UIOpen-source React and TypeScript library for building AI chat interfaces. | 97 | 98 | 12.1k | OSI-approved OSS | 98 |
| 35 | LangChainThe agent engineering platform | 98 | 97 | 146k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 36 | MLflowThe open source AI engineering platform for agents, LLMs, and ML models. MLflow enables teams of all sizes to debug, evaluate, monitor, and optimize production-quality AI applications while controlling costs and managing access to models and data. | 98 | 97 | 27.9k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 37 | ToolHivePlatform for running and managing MCP servers. | 98 | 97 | 2.2k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 38 | Agent DeckTerminal session manager for AI coding agents. One TUI for Claude, Gemini, OpenCode, Codex, and more. | 98 | 97 | 867 | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 39 | AgnoBuild, run, manage agentic software at scale. | 98 | 96 | 42.1k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 40 | LibreChatEnhanced ChatGPT Clone: Features Agents, MCP, DeepSeek, Anthropic, AWS, OpenAI, Responses API, Azure, Groq, o1, GPT-5, Mistral, OpenRouter, Vertex AI, Gemini, Artifacts, AI model switching, message search, Code Interpreter, langchain, DALL-E-3, OpenAPI Actions, Functions, Secure Multi-User Auth, Presets, open-source for self-hosting. Active. | 97 | 98 | 43k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 41 | PipecatOpen Source framework for voice and multimodal conversational AI | 97 | 98 | 15.4k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 42 | EmdashOpen-source agentic development environment for running multiple coding agents in parallel. | 97 | 98 | 5.7k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 43 | AutoGPTAutoGPT is the vision of accessible AI for everyone, to use and to build on. Our mission is to provide the tools, so that you can focus on what matters. | 97 | 97 | 187.2k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 44 | Open WebUIUser-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...) | 97 | 97 | 151.4k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 45 | claude-memA Claude Code plugin that automatically captures everything Claude does during your coding sessions, compresses it with AI (using Claude's agent-sdk), and injects relevant context back into future sessions. | 97 | 97 | 93.6k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 46 | NetdataThe fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams. | 97 | 97 | 80.5k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 47 | RTKCLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies | 97 | 97 | 79.7k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 48 | Oh My ClaudeCodeTeams-first Multi-agent orchestration for Claude Code | 97 | 97 | 39.1k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 49 | AionUIFree, local, open-source 24/7 Cowork app and OpenClaw for Gemini CLI, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Qwen Code, Goose CLI, Auggie, and more | ๐ Star if you like it! | 97 | 97 | 32.7k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
| 50 | FastGPTFastGPT is a knowledge-based platform built on the LLMs, offers a comprehensive suite of out-of-the-box capabilities such as data processing, RAG retrieval, and visual AI workflow orchestration, letting you easily develop and deploy complex question-answering systems without the need for extensive setup or configuration. | 97 | 97 | 29.6k | OSI-approved OSS | 97 |
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