50 Essential MCP Servers Reference

Skill by ara.so — MCP Skills collection.

This skill provides expert knowledge of the 50 Essential MCP Servers curated list — a reference guide for selecting, installing, and configuring Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex.

What This Project Provides

The 50 Essential MCP Servers is a curated reference of battle-tested MCP servers organized by category:

1. Core Dev — GitHub, Context7, Playwright, Filesystem, Brave Search
2. Databases & Backend — Postgres, Supabase, Neon, SQLite, Redis
3. Ops, Infra & Cloud — Cloudflare, Vercel, AWS, Docker Hub, Sentry, Kubernetes
4. Corporate/Team & Productivity — Slack, Linear, Notion, Jira, Google Drive, Gmail
5. Payments & Fintech — Stripe, PayPal, Plaid, QuickBooks
6. Blockchain & Web3 — Base, Solana Agent Kit, Thirdweb, The Graph, Dune
7. Trading & Markets — Alpaca, CCXT, Polygon.io, CoinGecko, TradingView
8. Creator Tools — Higgsfield, DaVinci Resolve, Figma, ElevenLabs, Blender
9. Reasoning & Memory — Sequential Thinking, Memory