About MyMCPTools
MyMCPTools is an MCP server for finding other MCP servers and checking their remote endpoint status. It is for evaluating reachability and tool changes; status data comes from live MCP handshake probes, while local-only servers are marked unprobeable.
Key features
- 01Search MCP servers by keyword and category
- 02View server entries and install details
- 03Probe remote server status live
- 04Review probe history and incidents
- 05Detect changes to tool lists
- 06View catalog and health statistics
Use cases
- 01Check a remote MCP server before recommending it
- 02See how many tools a server currently exposes
- 03Track server outages and probe history
- 04Review tool changes for compatibility risks
MCP support
Provides a hosted Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint and a local stdio adapter that connects to it. Its tools search for MCP servers and probe their status.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://mymcptools.com/api/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http shibley-mymcptools https://mymcptools.com/api/mcp{"mcpServers":{"shibley-mymcptools":{"type":"http","url":"https://mymcptools.com/api/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"shibley-mymcptools":{"type":"http","url":"https://mymcptools.com/api/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"shibley-mymcptools":{"type":"http","url":"https://mymcptools.com/api/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"shibley-mymcptools":{"serverUrl":"https://mymcptools.com/api/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
8| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | No | Max results (default 10, max 50). |
| query | string | No | Free-text query matched against name, description, author and category. |
| category | string | No | Category slug, e.g. 'database'. See list_categories. |
| official | boolean | No | Only first-party/official servers. |
| integration | string | No | Integration slug, e.g. 'claude-desktop' or 'cursor'. |
| install_type | enum | No | Restrict to one install mechanism.npm | pip | binary | docker | source | remote |
| only_verified | boolean | No | Only servers whose latest probe verdict is GOOD or WARN. |
Details
From the project READMEMyMCPTools MCP Server
An MCP server for finding other MCP servers — and, more usefully, for checking whether the one you are about to recommend is actually reachable.
Every uptime figure it returns comes from a real MCP handshake against the server's remote endpoint, not from self-reported metadata in a README.
Backed by mymcptools.com. No API key required.
Install
Remote endpoint (recommended — nothing to install)
The server is hosted. If your client speaks Streamable HTTP, point it straight at:
https://mymcptools.com/api/mcp
Stateless, read-only, no auth, no API key. This is also the entry published to the
official MCP Registry as
io.github.shibley/mymcptools.
Local stdio adapter
The code in this repo is a thin stdio adapter over that same endpoint, for clients that don't speak Streamable HTTP yet. It is not on npm yet, so build it from source (Node.js 18+):
git clone https://github.com/shibley/mymcptools-mcp-server.git
cd mymcptools-mcp-server
npm install && npm run build
Then point your client at the built entrypoint:
{
"mcpServers": {
"mymcptools": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["/absolute/path/to/mymcptools-mcp-server/dist/index.js"]
}
}
}
Add that to claude_desktop_config.json (Claude Desktop), .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor), or your client's equivalent.
Set MYMCPTOOLS_MCP_URL to override the upstream endpoint the adapter talks to.
Tools
| Tool | What it answers |
|---|---|
search_mcp_servers | Which servers match this keyword, category, client integration or install type? |
get_mcp_server | Full entry for one server: install command, repo, supported clients, current probe verdict. |
get_server_status | Is this server reachable right now? Verdict, exposed tool count, handshake latency, negotiated protocol version. |
get_server_history | Trailing probe history and a daily uptime sparkline for one server. |
list_server_incidents | Reconstructed outages — contiguous runs of failed probes, with start, end and duration. |
list_schema_drift | Which servers added, removed or changed tools between probes. Useful for spotting breaking changes. |
list_categories | Every category and client integration, with counts. Returns the valid slugs for the filters above. |
get_catalog_stats | Population-level health: verdict breakdown, transport mix, latency percentiles. |
What the probe data does and does not cover
Worth stating plainly, because the numbers are easy to misread:
- The catalog carries ~2,700 entries, but only ~44 are probeable — that is, they publish a remote endpoint something can actually connect to.
- The rest are local-only servers (stdio, run via
npxordockeron your machine). There is no remote endpoint to handshake against, so they are reported asUNPROBEABLErather than assigned a made-up status. For those,get_mcp_serverfalls back to a static repo-freshness signal. UNPROBEABLEtherefore means "not remotely checkable", not "broken".
So treat the live-verification tools as high-confidence for remote/hosted servers, and treat the catalog entry itself as the useful part for local ones.
Verdicts
| Verdict | Meaning |
|---|---|
GOOD | Handshake succeeded and the server listed its tools. |
WARN | Reachable, but something was off — slow handshake or a degraded response. |
AUTH_REQUIRED | Endpoint is live but needs credentials before it will list tools. |
DOWN | Endpoint is published but the handshake failed. |
UNPROBEABLE | No remote endpoint to probe — typically a local stdio server. |
Development
npm install
npm run build
Smoke-test the built server over stdio:
printf '%s\n%s\n%s\n' \
'{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"t","version":"1"}}}' \
'{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"notifications/initialized"}' \
'{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/list","params":{}}' \
| node dist/index.js
License
MIT
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