MCP Junction MCP Server

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MCP Junction is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 9 Sep 2026.

Search a nightly-refreshed directory of MCP servers by keyword, category or topic.

Uptime history 12 days of history

12 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

218 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 9 Sep 2026

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 6 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

6 Sep 2 tool descriptions were rewritten get_server, search_servers

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check MCP Junction every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add directory --transport http https://mcpjunction.ai/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "directory": {
      "url": "https://mcpjunction.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.directory]
url = "https://mcpjunction.ai/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "directory": {
      "url": "https://mcpjunction.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "directory": {
      "url": "https://mcpjunction.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

categories

list_categories

List all directory categories with slugs, names, and active-server counts.

dataset

get_dataset_info

Dataset metadata: entry counts, generation timestamp, source, and licensing terms for bulk or training use.

server

get_server

Get the full directory entry for one MCP server by id ('owner--repo', e.g. 'microsoft--playwright-mcp'). Includes install hint, license, stars, category, and editorial fields. Any install_hint is a best-effort guess from the repository language, not a verified command: relay the install_hint_caveat with it rather than presenting it as ready to run.

servers

search_servers

Search the MCP server directory by keyword and/or filters. Keyword matches name, description, and GitHub topics. Returns active servers sorted by relevance then stars. Supply at least one of query, category, or topic — with no query, filters alone enumerate a whole category or topic by stars. Data refreshes nightly from the public GitHub API. Any install_hint is a best-effort guess from the repository language, not a verified command: relay the install_hint_caveat with it rather than presenting it as ready to run.

topics

list_topics

List the curated GitHub topics that have a directory page, with active-server counts. Topics are assigned by repository owners and imported verbatim, so the full dataset carries thousands of them; this returns only the curated subset. search_servers accepts any topic string, curated or not.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcpjunction.ai/mcp	streamable-http	answering	109 ms	13 min ago

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MCP Junction — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can MCP Junction do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_dataset_info, get_server, list_categories, list_topics, search_servers. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is MCP Junction working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 218 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect MCP Junction?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does MCP Junction need an API key?

No. MCP Junction completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is MCP Junction?

It answers our handshake in 218 ms on average, which is faster than 64% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is MCP Junction open source?

We cannot say that it is. On our reading no licence is declared for it, which is not the same as open source: source code can be public and still be proprietary. Check the terms with the vendor before you build on it.