MCP Ecosystem Weekly Tracker — July 22, 2026
Weekly snapshot of the Model Context Protocol ecosystem: 593 repositories, top servers by stars, language distribution, and protocol evolution toward the 2026-07-28 release candidate.
MCP Ecosystem Weekly Tracker — July 22, 2026
Last Updated: 2026-07-22 | Update Frequency: Weekly | Primary Sources: GitHub API, Awesome MCP Servers, Tavily Web Search, MCP Official Blog
The Model Context Protocol ecosystem continues its rapid expansion: 593 tagged repositories now exceed 50 stars (+24 this week, +4.2% WoW), with the top 30 projects accumulating 331,036 stars combined. The upcoming 2026-07-28 MCP Specification Release Candidate — introducing a stateless protocol core, Extensions framework, and MCP Apps — is poised to reshape how servers and clients interact at scale.
Methodology
Data for this tracker is collected weekly through a multi-source pipeline:
- GitHub Search API: Queries repositories tagged with both
mcpandmodel-context-protocoltopics, filtered to stars > 50, sorted by star count. This captures the core ecosystem of purpose-built MCP servers and SDKs. - GitHub Repository API: Direct lookups for official protocol repositories (servers, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK) to ensure accurate star/fork counts.
- Awesome MCP Servers List: The punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers curated directory provides community-verified server entries and categorization.
- Tavily Advanced Search: Supplemental web search for ecosystem news, protocol updates, and newly launched servers not yet reflected in GitHub topic tags.
Inclusion criteria: Repositories must carry both mcp and model-context-protocol GitHub topics and exceed 50 stars. This dual-topic filter ensures relevance while excluding tangential projects. Star counts are point-in-time snapshots; WoW changes are calculated against the previous week’s collection (July 15, 2026).
Known limitations: GitHub topic tagging is opt-in; some MCP-compatible servers may lack proper topics. The 30-result API cap means the full long tail (593 repos) is not individually tracked — only the top 30 by stars receive detailed analysis.
- Collection method: Automated GitHub API calls + curated list cross-reference + web search supplement
- Update cadence: Weekly (every Wednesday)
- Data quality checks: Star count validation against direct repo API; deduplication across sources; WoW change sanity-checked against historical baselines
Current Data
| Repository | Stars | Forks | Language | WoW Change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| modelcontextprotocol/servers | 88,729 | 11,265 | TypeScript | +252 (+0.3%) | → |
| DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp | 33,632 | 2,565 | C | +2,133 (+6.8%) | ↑ |
| PrefectHQ/fastmcp | 26,724 | 2,172 | Python | +523 (+2.0%) | → |
| modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk | 23,678 | 3,683 | Python | +63 (+0.3%) | → |
| microsoft/mcp-for-beginners | 16,803 | 5,477 | Jupyter Notebook | +48 (+0.3%) | → |
| modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk | 12,909 | 1,997 | TypeScript | +56 (+0.4%) | → |
| CoplayDev/unity-mcp | 12,721 | 1,347 | C# | +245 (+2.0%) | → |
| mcp-use/mcp-use | 10,336 | 1,373 | TypeScript | NEW | ↑ |
| lastmile-ai/mcp-agent | 8,464 | 864 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| Upsonic/Upsonic | 7,918 | 739 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server | 7,012 | 814 | JavaScript | NEW | ↑ |
| grab/cursor-talk-to-figma-mcp | 6,920 | 750 | JavaScript | NEW | ↑ |
| getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP | 6,102 | 303 | TypeScript | NEW | ↑ |
| appcypher/awesome-mcp-servers | 5,707 | 2,032 | N/A | NEW | ↑ |
| MinishLab/semble | 5,668 | 236 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| holaboss-ai/holaOS | 5,505 | 396 | TypeScript | NEW | ↑ |
| the-open-agent/openagent | 5,427 | 628 | Go | NEW | ↑ |
| nanbingxyz/5ire | 5,284 | 411 | TypeScript | NEW | ↑ |
| exa-labs/exa-mcp-server | 4,750 | 360 | TypeScript | NEW | ↑ |
| WenyuChiou/awesome-agentic-ai-zh | 4,715 | 619 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| IBM/mcp-context-forge | 4,118 | 760 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp | 4,068 | 167 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| IvanMurzak/Unity-MCP | 3,620 | 325 | C# | NEW | ↑ |
| KnockOutEZ/wigolo | 3,102 | 188 | TypeScript | NEW | ↑ |
| oomol-lab/open-connector | 3,057 | 235 | TypeScript | NEW | ↑ |
| taylorwilsdon/google_workspace_mcp | 2,892 | 888 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| zcaceres/markdownify-mcp | 2,887 | 243 | TypeScript | NEW | ↑ |
| bethington/ghidra-mcp | 2,883 | 64 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| stickerdaniel/linkedin-mcp-server | 2,847 | 492 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| genieincodebottle/generative-ai | 2,558 | 615 | Jupyter Notebook | NEW | ↑ |
Language Distribution (Top 30)
| Language | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 11 | 36.7% |
| TypeScript | 10 | 33.3% |
| Jupyter Notebook | 2 | 6.7% |
| C# | 2 | 6.7% |
| JavaScript | 2 | 6.7% |
| C | 1 | 3.3% |
| Go | 1 | 3.3% |
| N/A | 1 | 3.3% |
Trends
Stateless Protocol Core: The 2026-07-28 Release Candidate
The most consequential shift in the MCP ecosystem this week is the upcoming specification release candidate, scheduled for final publication on July 28, 2026. The RC removes the initialize/initialized handshake (SEP-2575) and the Mcp-Session-Id header (SEP-2567), making every MCP request independently routable to any server instance. This eliminates the sticky routing and shared session stores that horizontal deployments previously required at the protocol layer.
“Any MCP request can land on any server instance, and the sticky routing and shared session stores that horizontal deployments needed before are no longer required at the protocol layer.” — MCP Specification Release Candidate announcement
The RC also introduces the Extensions framework (negotiated capability extensions), Tasks (long-running operations), MCP Apps (packaged server+client bundles), and authorization hardening with OpenID Connect application_type declarations during Dynamic Client Registration. Three core features — Roots, Sampling, and Logging — are deprecated under the new feature lifecycle policy (SEP-2577).
codebase-memory-mcp Leads Growth for Second Consecutive Week
DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp added 2,133 stars this week (+6.8% WoW), maintaining its position as the fastest-growing project in the MCP ecosystem. Written in C for maximum performance, it indexes codebases into a persistent knowledge graph with sub-millisecond queries across 158 languages, using 99% fewer tokens than traditional grep+read approaches. Its growth reflects the developer community’s demand for efficient context delivery to AI coding agents — a direct response to the “context bloat” problem that MCP creator David Soria Parra identified as the ecosystem’s most pressing challenge.
New Frameworks Expand the MCP Development Surface
Two new entries signal maturation of the MCP development toolchain:
- mcp-use/mcp-use (10,336 stars): A fullstack MCP framework for building MCP Apps compatible with ChatGPT, Claude, and standalone MCP servers. Its rapid adoption suggests developers want unified abstractions over the raw SDK.
- MinishLab/semble (5,668 stars): A code search engine optimized for AI agents, using approximately 98% fewer tokens than grep+read workflows. This addresses the context efficiency problem from the retrieval side.
Together with the continued growth of PrefectHQ/fastmcp (+523 stars, now 26,724), these frameworks indicate that the MCP ecosystem is developing layered tooling — from low-level SDKs to high-level application frameworks — similar to the maturation path of web development frameworks.
Enterprise and Cross-Domain MCP Servers Gain Traction
Enterprise-grade MCP infrastructure is consolidating:
- IBM/mcp-context-forge (4,118 stars): An AI Gateway, registry, and proxy supporting MCP, A2A, and REST/gRPC protocols — positioning MCP as one integration standard among many in enterprise environments.
- oomol-lab/open-connector (3,057 stars): An authentication gateway connecting 1,000+ SaaS providers to AI agents through standardized MCP interfaces.
- taylorwilsdon/google_workspace_mcp (2,892 stars): Full Google Workspace integration (Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides) via MCP.
Cross-domain expansion continues with gaming (two Unity MCP servers: CoplayDev/unity-mcp at 12,721 stars and IvanMurzak/Unity-MCP at 3,620 stars), design (grab/cursor-talk-to-figma-mcp at 6,920 stars), smart home (homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp at 4,068 stars), and security research (bethington/ghidra-mcp at 2,883 stars with 200+ reverse engineering tools).
🔺 Scout Intel: What Others Missed
Confidence: High | Novelty Score: 72/100
The 23 new entries in this week’s top 30 — compared to just 7 returning projects — reveal a structural shift: the MCP ecosystem’s center of gravity is moving from official/SDK repositories toward application-layer servers. Official repos (servers, python-sdk, typescript-sdk) grew only 0.3-0.4% WoW, while application servers like codebase-memory-mcp grew 6.8%. This mirrors the LSP (Language Server Protocol) adoption curve, where protocol adoption accelerated only after application-layer tooling reached critical mass. The upcoming stateless protocol RC will further accelerate this shift by removing deployment friction for multi-instance server architectures.
Key implication for MCP server developers: Prioritize compatibility testing against the 2026-07-28 RC now — the 10-week migration window before final spec publication means early adopters will gain significant discoverability advantages in the MCP Registry.
Changelog
| Date | Change | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-22 | Weekly snapshot #8 | 593 total repos (+24 WoW); 23 new entries in top 30; MCP 2026-07-28 RC coverage added |
| 2026-07-15 | Weekly snapshot #7 | 569 total repos (+19 WoW); codebase-memory-mcp fastest growing at +12.6% |
| 2026-07-08 | Weekly snapshot #6 | 550 total repos; IBM/mcp-context-forge entered top 20 |
Sources
MCP Ecosystem Weekly Tracker — July 22, 2026
Weekly snapshot of the Model Context Protocol ecosystem: 593 repositories, top servers by stars, language distribution, and protocol evolution toward the 2026-07-28 release candidate.
MCP Ecosystem Weekly Tracker — July 22, 2026
Last Updated: 2026-07-22 | Update Frequency: Weekly | Primary Sources: GitHub API, Awesome MCP Servers, Tavily Web Search, MCP Official Blog
The Model Context Protocol ecosystem continues its rapid expansion: 593 tagged repositories now exceed 50 stars (+24 this week, +4.2% WoW), with the top 30 projects accumulating 331,036 stars combined. The upcoming 2026-07-28 MCP Specification Release Candidate — introducing a stateless protocol core, Extensions framework, and MCP Apps — is poised to reshape how servers and clients interact at scale.
Methodology
Data for this tracker is collected weekly through a multi-source pipeline:
- GitHub Search API: Queries repositories tagged with both
mcpandmodel-context-protocoltopics, filtered to stars > 50, sorted by star count. This captures the core ecosystem of purpose-built MCP servers and SDKs. - GitHub Repository API: Direct lookups for official protocol repositories (servers, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK) to ensure accurate star/fork counts.
- Awesome MCP Servers List: The punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers curated directory provides community-verified server entries and categorization.
- Tavily Advanced Search: Supplemental web search for ecosystem news, protocol updates, and newly launched servers not yet reflected in GitHub topic tags.
Inclusion criteria: Repositories must carry both mcp and model-context-protocol GitHub topics and exceed 50 stars. This dual-topic filter ensures relevance while excluding tangential projects. Star counts are point-in-time snapshots; WoW changes are calculated against the previous week’s collection (July 15, 2026).
Known limitations: GitHub topic tagging is opt-in; some MCP-compatible servers may lack proper topics. The 30-result API cap means the full long tail (593 repos) is not individually tracked — only the top 30 by stars receive detailed analysis.
- Collection method: Automated GitHub API calls + curated list cross-reference + web search supplement
- Update cadence: Weekly (every Wednesday)
- Data quality checks: Star count validation against direct repo API; deduplication across sources; WoW change sanity-checked against historical baselines
Current Data
| Repository | Stars | Forks | Language | WoW Change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| modelcontextprotocol/servers | 88,729 | 11,265 | TypeScript | +252 (+0.3%) | → |
| DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp | 33,632 | 2,565 | C | +2,133 (+6.8%) | ↑ |
| PrefectHQ/fastmcp | 26,724 | 2,172 | Python | +523 (+2.0%) | → |
| modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk | 23,678 | 3,683 | Python | +63 (+0.3%) | → |
| microsoft/mcp-for-beginners | 16,803 | 5,477 | Jupyter Notebook | +48 (+0.3%) | → |
| modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk | 12,909 | 1,997 | TypeScript | +56 (+0.4%) | → |
| CoplayDev/unity-mcp | 12,721 | 1,347 | C# | +245 (+2.0%) | → |
| mcp-use/mcp-use | 10,336 | 1,373 | TypeScript | NEW | ↑ |
| lastmile-ai/mcp-agent | 8,464 | 864 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| Upsonic/Upsonic | 7,918 | 739 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server | 7,012 | 814 | JavaScript | NEW | ↑ |
| grab/cursor-talk-to-figma-mcp | 6,920 | 750 | JavaScript | NEW | ↑ |
| getsentry/XcodeBuildMCP | 6,102 | 303 | TypeScript | NEW | ↑ |
| appcypher/awesome-mcp-servers | 5,707 | 2,032 | N/A | NEW | ↑ |
| MinishLab/semble | 5,668 | 236 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| holaboss-ai/holaOS | 5,505 | 396 | TypeScript | NEW | ↑ |
| the-open-agent/openagent | 5,427 | 628 | Go | NEW | ↑ |
| nanbingxyz/5ire | 5,284 | 411 | TypeScript | NEW | ↑ |
| exa-labs/exa-mcp-server | 4,750 | 360 | TypeScript | NEW | ↑ |
| WenyuChiou/awesome-agentic-ai-zh | 4,715 | 619 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| IBM/mcp-context-forge | 4,118 | 760 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp | 4,068 | 167 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| IvanMurzak/Unity-MCP | 3,620 | 325 | C# | NEW | ↑ |
| KnockOutEZ/wigolo | 3,102 | 188 | TypeScript | NEW | ↑ |
| oomol-lab/open-connector | 3,057 | 235 | TypeScript | NEW | ↑ |
| taylorwilsdon/google_workspace_mcp | 2,892 | 888 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| zcaceres/markdownify-mcp | 2,887 | 243 | TypeScript | NEW | ↑ |
| bethington/ghidra-mcp | 2,883 | 64 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| stickerdaniel/linkedin-mcp-server | 2,847 | 492 | Python | NEW | ↑ |
| genieincodebottle/generative-ai | 2,558 | 615 | Jupyter Notebook | NEW | ↑ |
Language Distribution (Top 30)
| Language | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 11 | 36.7% |
| TypeScript | 10 | 33.3% |
| Jupyter Notebook | 2 | 6.7% |
| C# | 2 | 6.7% |
| JavaScript | 2 | 6.7% |
| C | 1 | 3.3% |
| Go | 1 | 3.3% |
| N/A | 1 | 3.3% |
Trends
Stateless Protocol Core: The 2026-07-28 Release Candidate
The most consequential shift in the MCP ecosystem this week is the upcoming specification release candidate, scheduled for final publication on July 28, 2026. The RC removes the initialize/initialized handshake (SEP-2575) and the Mcp-Session-Id header (SEP-2567), making every MCP request independently routable to any server instance. This eliminates the sticky routing and shared session stores that horizontal deployments previously required at the protocol layer.
“Any MCP request can land on any server instance, and the sticky routing and shared session stores that horizontal deployments needed before are no longer required at the protocol layer.” — MCP Specification Release Candidate announcement
The RC also introduces the Extensions framework (negotiated capability extensions), Tasks (long-running operations), MCP Apps (packaged server+client bundles), and authorization hardening with OpenID Connect application_type declarations during Dynamic Client Registration. Three core features — Roots, Sampling, and Logging — are deprecated under the new feature lifecycle policy (SEP-2577).
codebase-memory-mcp Leads Growth for Second Consecutive Week
DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp added 2,133 stars this week (+6.8% WoW), maintaining its position as the fastest-growing project in the MCP ecosystem. Written in C for maximum performance, it indexes codebases into a persistent knowledge graph with sub-millisecond queries across 158 languages, using 99% fewer tokens than traditional grep+read approaches. Its growth reflects the developer community’s demand for efficient context delivery to AI coding agents — a direct response to the “context bloat” problem that MCP creator David Soria Parra identified as the ecosystem’s most pressing challenge.
New Frameworks Expand the MCP Development Surface
Two new entries signal maturation of the MCP development toolchain:
- mcp-use/mcp-use (10,336 stars): A fullstack MCP framework for building MCP Apps compatible with ChatGPT, Claude, and standalone MCP servers. Its rapid adoption suggests developers want unified abstractions over the raw SDK.
- MinishLab/semble (5,668 stars): A code search engine optimized for AI agents, using approximately 98% fewer tokens than grep+read workflows. This addresses the context efficiency problem from the retrieval side.
Together with the continued growth of PrefectHQ/fastmcp (+523 stars, now 26,724), these frameworks indicate that the MCP ecosystem is developing layered tooling — from low-level SDKs to high-level application frameworks — similar to the maturation path of web development frameworks.
Enterprise and Cross-Domain MCP Servers Gain Traction
Enterprise-grade MCP infrastructure is consolidating:
- IBM/mcp-context-forge (4,118 stars): An AI Gateway, registry, and proxy supporting MCP, A2A, and REST/gRPC protocols — positioning MCP as one integration standard among many in enterprise environments.
- oomol-lab/open-connector (3,057 stars): An authentication gateway connecting 1,000+ SaaS providers to AI agents through standardized MCP interfaces.
- taylorwilsdon/google_workspace_mcp (2,892 stars): Full Google Workspace integration (Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides) via MCP.
Cross-domain expansion continues with gaming (two Unity MCP servers: CoplayDev/unity-mcp at 12,721 stars and IvanMurzak/Unity-MCP at 3,620 stars), design (grab/cursor-talk-to-figma-mcp at 6,920 stars), smart home (homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp at 4,068 stars), and security research (bethington/ghidra-mcp at 2,883 stars with 200+ reverse engineering tools).
🔺 Scout Intel: What Others Missed
Confidence: High | Novelty Score: 72/100
The 23 new entries in this week’s top 30 — compared to just 7 returning projects — reveal a structural shift: the MCP ecosystem’s center of gravity is moving from official/SDK repositories toward application-layer servers. Official repos (servers, python-sdk, typescript-sdk) grew only 0.3-0.4% WoW, while application servers like codebase-memory-mcp grew 6.8%. This mirrors the LSP (Language Server Protocol) adoption curve, where protocol adoption accelerated only after application-layer tooling reached critical mass. The upcoming stateless protocol RC will further accelerate this shift by removing deployment friction for multi-instance server architectures.
Key implication for MCP server developers: Prioritize compatibility testing against the 2026-07-28 RC now — the 10-week migration window before final spec publication means early adopters will gain significant discoverability advantages in the MCP Registry.
Changelog
| Date | Change | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-22 | Weekly snapshot #8 | 593 total repos (+24 WoW); 23 new entries in top 30; MCP 2026-07-28 RC coverage added |
| 2026-07-15 | Weekly snapshot #7 | 569 total repos (+19 WoW); codebase-memory-mcp fastest growing at +12.6% |
| 2026-07-08 | Weekly snapshot #6 | 550 total repos; IBM/mcp-context-forge entered top 20 |
Sources
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