best of · updated August 2026

The 15 best documentation MCP servers

The 15 documentation MCP servers worth your time, out of 736 we track - actively maintained, with real adoption, ranked on monthly installs, GitHub stars, and commit recency. Checked nightly.

Documentation MCP servers retrieve library docs, specs, or internal wikis so answers cite current material. Compare index coverage, version pinning, and offline versus API-backed sources.

01 Context7 ★ 61,171 · commit 2026-08-24 Up-to-date code docs for any prompt 4,108,483 installs/mo · 2 tools documented · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @upstash/context7-mcp 02 GitLab MCP ★ 1,918 · commit 2026-08-24 📖 Documentation → Setup guides, environment variables, and the full tool reference live on the hosted docs site. 421,764 installs/mo · 40 tools documented · 10+ releases/90d · needs 12 env vars $ npx -y @zereight/mcp-gitlab 03 Repowise ★ 6,189 · commit 2026-08-24 Codebase intelligence for AI coding agents - graph, git history, docs, decisions, code health. 28,712 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ uvx repowise 04 Svelte MCP ★ 309 · commit 2026-08-23 Repo for the official Svelte MCP server. 102,283 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @sveltejs/mcp 05 Appwrite MCP Server ★ 71 · commit 2026-08-25 A Model Context Protocol server for Appwrite. 95,047 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx mcp-server-appwrite 06 Google Drive MCP ★ 206 · commit 2026-08-21 Connect an MCP client to Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Calendar through one self-hosted server. 32,358 installs/mo · 4 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @piotr-agier/google-drive-mcp 07 Obsidian MCP Server ★ 668 · commit 2026-08-22 Read, write, search, and surgically edit Obsidian vault notes, tags, and frontmatter via MCP. 14,711 installs/mo · 25 tools documented · 10+ releases/90d · needs 3 env vars $ npx -y obsidian-mcp-server 08 Gk CLI ★ 447 · commit 2026-08-17 The GitKraken MCP Server for managing repos, PRs, issues across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and more. 17,393 installs/mo · 4 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @gitkraken/gk 09 jDocmunch MCP ★ 202 · commit 2026-08-23 jDocMunch is an MCP server for coding agents that retrieves the exact documentation section a task needs, without loading whole files into the context window. 19,701 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ uvx jdocmunch-mcp 10 Esa ★ 62 · commit 2026-08-20 Official MCP server for esa.io - a documentation sharing service for teams. 25,034 installs/mo · 3 releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ npx -y @esaio/esa-mcp-server 11 ITASCA MCP Server ★ 157 · commit 2026-08-22 Give AI agents full access to ITASCA PFC, FLAC3D, 3DEC - documentation, simulation, plot capture. 6,170 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx itasca-mcp 12 Qverisai MCP Server ★ 255 · commit 2026-08-24 Discover, inspect and call ranked external data & tool APIs with unified billing and usage audit 3,767 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @qverisai/mcp 13 MediaWiki MCP Server ★ 124 · commit 2026-08-20 An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that enables Large Language Model (LLM) clients to interact with any MediaWiki wiki. 5,490 installs/mo · 40 tools documented · 9 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @professional-wiki/mediawiki-mcp-server 14 Agent Skills Search Server ★ 24,633 · commit 2026-08-09 A standardized way to give AI agents new capabilities and expertise. no env vars documented $ claude mcp add agentskills-agentskills --transport http https://skills-sh.run.mcp.com.ai/mcp 15 Genexus ★ 28 · commit 2026-08-24 GeneXus MCP Server lets AI agents - Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, and any MCP-compatible client - read, edit, analyze, and refactor objects inside a GeneXus 18 Knowledge Base. 8,663 installs/mo · 10 tools documented · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y genexus-mcp

How to choose between them

Context7 tops the list - the most installs (4,108,483 last month) and actively maintained. 3 of these 15 offer a remote endpoint (no local process to run); the rest are local stdio servers. 10 document no required env vars - paste the config and go; the others need env vars set first (each page lists exactly which). Where we've compared two of these head-to-head, the comparison is linked on each one's page.

Quick answers

Which documentation MCP server is most installed?

Context7, with 4,108,483 installs in the last month (as of August 2026).

How many documentation MCP servers exist?

We track 736 documentation MCP servers in the official registry. The 15 above are the actively-maintained ones with real adoption - ranked by monthly installs, GitHub stars, and commit recency.

All 180 documentation MCP servers

Ranked 16 onward, same order as above. Status checked last night.

How this list is ranked

Ranked from live registry + GitHub data: monthly installs (npm/PyPI), GitHub stars, and commit recency - recomputed nightly. No pay-to-rank, ever. The 15 above lead the full list of 180, all of which you can see on this page. The other 556 we track have stopped being maintained, or nobody is using them yet. Full recipe: how we verify.