Week 45, updated 2 Nov 2026

Agent skills & MCP MCP reference servers

Are the MCP reference servers safe?

Short answer: No issues found. StackGrade's weekly scan of modelcontextprotocol/servers found no issues: no critical-severity dependency advisories, no downloading install hooks, no remote-code patterns and no risky agent instruction files. Automated scan of commit 194cc86 on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit.

Updated : the last week its score, rank or safety result changed.

Reference collection of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers from the MCP project.

  • 91,744 stars
  • pushed 29 Oct
  • Apache-2.0 / MIT
  • TypeScript

github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers · modelcontextprotocol.io

48score out of 100

#29of 52 overall#4in Agent skills & MCP▼ 11 vs Week 44

  • Maintenance 30%21
  • Adoption 30%60
  • Docs 20%69
  • Community 20%–
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Score over the last 4 weeks: 51, 60, 59, 48.

No issues found

All checks clean in the scan of 2 Nov 2026.

How this score works

Each part is a percentile among all 52 tracked tools, so 50 is average for this list. Community is not measured yet; the score uses the other 80%.

  • Maintenance: Last push 29 Oct 2026. Last 10 GitHub releases within 147 days (about 1.8 per 30 days), latest release 28 Oct 2026. Issue close time: fewer than 5 closed issues, so not used.
  • Adoption: 91,744 stars (70%), 11,902 forks (30%).
  • Docs: README 10,538 characters, 19 headings, 6 code blocks, install section: yes.

Methodology

#4 of 9 in Agent skills & MCP

Ranked by score. The yellow row is this tool.

Agent skills & MCP, Week 45score 0–100, safety
  1. 1Superpowers#13 overall62No dependencies scanned
  2. 2Context7#19 overall57Caution
  3. 3Agent Skills#25 overall53No issues found
  4. 4MCP reference servers#29 overall48No issues found
  5. 5awesome-mcp-servers#30 overall47No dependencies scanned
  6. 6Playwright MCP#32 overall45No issues found
Show the other 3
  1. 7wshobson/agents#38 overall42No issues found
  2. 8GitHub MCP Server#40 overall41No issues found
  3. 9skill-recorder#52 overall22No issues found

Safety scan, 2 Nov 2026

Automated scan of commit 194cc86, 341 files. Not a manual audit.

No issues found

  • 0Critical dependency advisories0 high, 3 medium, 0 low. OSV, runtime dependencies only.
  • 0Install hooksNo npm install scripts found.
  • 0Remote-code patternsFor example eval(fetch(…)).
  • 24Agent files checked0 phrases flagged for review.
  • 0curl | sh installersIn docs or program code. Information only.
Why this label?

No issues found by the automated scan.

Known vulnerabilities in runtime dependencies (OSV): 0 critical, 0 high, 3 medium, 0 low

Automated scan of commit 194cc86 on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit. 341 files checked. What we check

Repo activity

From the GitHub API, fetched 2 Nov 2026.

  • 6Releases, 90 daysLatest v2.2.0, 28 Oct
  • –Median issue closeFewer than 5 closed issues
  • 91.7kStars+180 since 26 Oct
  • 11.9kForks38 open issues
  • 2024Repo created19 Nov 2024
30 days ago2 Nov
4 releases in the last 30 days, one mark each (GitHub releases feed, last 10 entries).

4 releases in the last 30 days (GitHub releases feed, last 10 entries):

Questions about MCP reference servers

Answers use this week's StackGrade data.

Is MCP reference servers safe to use?

No issues found. StackGrade's weekly scan of modelcontextprotocol/servers found no issues: no critical-severity dependency advisories, no downloading install hooks, no remote-code patterns and no risky agent instruction files. Automated scan of commit 194cc86 on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit.

How does StackGrade score MCP reference servers?

MCP reference servers scores 48 out of 100 in Week 45: #29 of 52 tracked tools overall and #4 in Agent skills & MCP. The score combines maintenance (21), adoption (60) and docs (69) as percentiles among all 52 tracked tools; community (20% weight) is not measured yet, so the score uses the other 80%. It is not a hands-on test and it is separate from the safety label.

What are the alternatives to MCP reference servers?

The highest-scored other tools in Agent skills & MCP this week: Superpowers (62, No dependencies scanned), Context7 (57, Caution), Agent Skills (53, No issues found), awesome-mcp-servers (47, No dependencies scanned). StackGrade has not tested them hands-on.

What licence does MCP reference servers use?

The licence listed for modelcontextprotocol/servers is Apache-2.0 / MIT. Read the licence text before commercial use.

Compare and use it

All facts and sources
Type
MCP server
License
Apache-2.0 / MIT
Language
TypeScript
Created
19 Nov 2024
Owner
modelcontextprotocol (Organization)
Forks
11,902

GitHub description: “Model Context Protocol Servers”

Sources: github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers, api.github.com/repos/modelcontextprotocol/servers, raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/main/. Fetched 2 Nov 2026.

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