Overview

The Model Context Protocol ecosystem continues its rapid expansion, reaching 550 tagged repositories this week — a gain of 39 new repos (+7.6% WoW). The top 30 projects alone account for 319,864 cumulative stars, with the official modelcontextprotocol/servers repository crossing the 88K star milestone.

Key metrics for the week of July 2–8, 2026:

Metric	Value	WoW Change
Total tagged repositories	550	+39 (+7.6%)
Top 30 cumulative stars	319,864	—
Official servers repo stars	88,169	+561 (+0.6%)
New entries in top 30	23	—
Python projects (top 30)	10	—
TypeScript projects (top 30)	9	—

Top 30 MCP Repositories

#	Repository	Stars	Week Change	Trend	Language
1	modelcontextprotocol/servers	88,169	+561 (+0.6%)	➡️ Stable	TypeScript
2	DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp	27,966	+15,178 (+118.7%)	🚀 Surging	C
3	PrefectHQ/fastmcp	26,022	+260 (+1.0%)	➡️ Stable	Python
4	modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk	23,554	+129 (+0.6%)	➡️ Stable	Python
5	microsoft/mcp-for-beginners	16,704	+112 (+0.7%)	➡️ Stable	Jupyter Notebook
6	modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk	12,815	+100 (+0.8%)	➡️ Stable	TypeScript
7	CoplayDev/unity-mcp	12,201	+1,232 (+11.2%)	📈 Rising	C#
8	mcp-use/mcp-use	10,264	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	TypeScript
9	lastmile-ai/mcp-agent	8,412	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	Python
10	Upsonic/Upsonic	7,902	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	Python
11	grab/cursor-talk-to-figma-mcp	6,882	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	JavaScript
12	firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server	6,872	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	JavaScript
13	getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP	6,042	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	TypeScript
14	appcypher/awesome-mcp-servers	5,672	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	—
15	MinishLab/semble	5,538	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	Python
16	holaboss-ai/holaOS	5,490	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	TypeScript
17	the-open-agent/openagent	5,358	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	Go
18	nanbingxyz/5ire	5,265	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	TypeScript
19	exa-labs/exa-mcp-server	4,675	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	TypeScript
20	WenyuChiou/awesome-agentic-ai-zh	4,238	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	Python
21	IBM/mcp-context-forge	4,046	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	Python
22	homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp	3,858	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	Python
23	IvanMurzak/Unity-MCP	3,469	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	C#
24	taylorwilsdon/google_workspace_mcp	2,801	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	Python
25	zcaceres/markdownify-mcp	2,771	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	TypeScript
26	bethington/ghidra-mcp	2,720	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	Java
27	stickerdaniel/linkedin-mcp-server	2,681	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	Python
28	genieincodebottle/generative-ai	2,535	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	Jupyter Notebook
29	metatool-ai/metamcp	2,502	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	TypeScript
30	zinja-coder/jadx-ai-mcp	2,440	🆕 New	🆕 New Entry	Java

Notable Movers

DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp — +15,178 stars (+118.7% WoW)

The standout performer this week. This high-performance code intelligence MCP server, written in C, surged from ~12.8K to nearly 28K stars — more than doubling in a single week. The project indexes codebases into a persistent knowledge graph, enabling agents to navigate large codebases with minimal token consumption. Its C-based implementation offers significant performance advantages over Python/TypeScript alternatives for code search at scale.

mcp-use/mcp-use — New Entry at #8 (10,264 stars)

A fullstack MCP framework for building MCP applications compatible with ChatGPT, Claude, and other MCP servers. Its rapid ascent signals developer demand for unified frameworks that abstract away the complexity of building MCP-compatible tools and clients.

grab/cursor-talk-to-figma-mcp — New Entry at #11 (6,882 stars)

Grab’s official MCP integration between AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) and Figma. This reflects the growing intersection of AI-assisted development and design tooling — enabling agents to read and manipulate Figma designs directly.

getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP — New Entry at #13 (6,042 stars)

Sentry’s official MCP server for Xcode build operations. A strong signal that major developer tooling companies are investing in MCP integrations for their core products, extending agent capabilities into iOS/macOS development workflows.

homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp — New Entry at #22 (3,858 stars)

Smart home meets AI agents. This unofficial Home Assistant MCP server enables agents to control and monitor smart home devices, pointing toward a future where MCP becomes the universal integration layer not just for developer tools but for IoT and consumer automation.

Ecosystem Breakdown

Language Distribution (Top 30)

Language	Count	Share
Python	10	33.3%
TypeScript	9	30.0%
JavaScript	2	6.7%
C#	2	6.7%
Java	2	6.7%
Jupyter Notebook	2	6.7%
C	1	3.3%
Go	1	3.3%
Other/None	1	3.3%

Python and TypeScript continue to dominate, collectively accounting for 63% of top projects. The presence of C (codebase-memory-mcp) and Go (openagent) in the top 30 signals that performance-critical MCP implementations are emerging beyond the scripting language mainstream.

Category Highlights

• Enterprise: IBM/mcp-context-forge (4,046 stars) — AI Gateway for MCP/A2A protocol bridging; taylorwilsdon/google_workspace_mcp (2,801 stars) — full Google Workspace control via MCP
• Gaming: Two Unity MCP servers (CoplayDev/unity-mcp at 12,201 + IvanMurzak/Unity-MCP at 3,469) — game development MCP tooling is maturing rapidly
• Security/RE: bethington/ghidra-mcp (2,720 stars) + zinja-coder/jadx-ai-mcp (2,440 stars) — reverse engineering MCPs signal demand for AI-assisted security analysis
• Web/Scraping: firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server (6,872 stars) + exa-labs/exa-mcp-server (4,675 stars) — web data access remains a top MCP use case
• Smart Home: homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp (3,858 stars) — MCP expanding beyond developer tools into consumer IoT

🔺 Scout Intel: What Others Missed

The MCP ecosystem is undergoing a structural shift from “protocol infrastructure” to “application layer.” While most coverage focuses on the official SDKs and servers repo (which grew modestly at +0.6% WoW), the real story is the explosive growth of application-specific MCP servers. 23 of the 30 top projects are new entries this week — not because they were just created, but because the GitHub topic tagging and search index has matured enough to surface them.

Three underreported trends:

1. Performance-native MCP is emerging. DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp’s 118.7% weekly surge (written in C) and the Go-based openagent suggest that the next wave of MCP innovation will come from performance-critical implementations, not just Python/TypeScript wrappers. This mirrors the early days of containerization, where the initial Docker ecosystem was Python/Node-heavy before Rust and Go implementations took over for production workloads.

2. MCP is becoming the universal API bridge. The diversity of this week’s top 30 — spanning game engines (Unity), design tools (Figma), smart home (Home Assistant), security (Ghidra/JADX), enterprise SaaS (Google Workspace), and social platforms (LinkedIn) — indicates MCP is evolving from a “model context” protocol into a de facto universal tool-calling standard. The protocol’s simplicity (JSON-RPC over stdio/SSE) makes it trivially adoptable across domains that REST APIs or GraphQL would over-engineer.

3. The aggregator layer is consolidating. Projects like metatool-ai/metamcp (MCP Aggregator/Gateway) and IBM/mcp-context-forge (MCP/A2A bridge) represent a new middleware tier. As the number of MCP servers grows past 500, the problem shifts from “how to build an MCP server” to “how to discover, orchestrate, and govern hundreds of them.” This is the infrastructure layer that will determine whether MCP scales to enterprise production or remains a developer novelty.

Looking Ahead

• Watch for MCP specification updates as the protocol matures toward 1.0 — the current rapid ecosystem growth will likely trigger governance discussions
• The aggregator/gateway tier (metamcp, mcp-context-forge) is poised for consolidation as enterprises need MCP management at scale
• Security MCPs (ghidra-mcp, jadx-ai-mcp) may see accelerated adoption as AI-assisted security auditing becomes mainstream
• The smart home / IoT segment (ha-mcp) could be the leading edge of MCP’s expansion beyond developer tooling into consumer applications

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Data collected on July 8, 2026. Repository data sourced from GitHub API search (topic:mcp + topic:model-context-protocol, stars:>50). Week-over-week changes calculated against the June 24, 2026 snapshot.