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🔍 Best MCP servers for search & knowledge
The 50 most used MCP servers for search & knowledge, ranked daily from downloads and GitHub data. Snapshot 2026-10-14.
| # | Server | Weekly downloads | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agent Skills Search Server activeremote Search and discover Agent Skills from the skills.sh registry. Powered by HAPI MCP server. | — | 26.1k |
| 2 | Robin: AI-Powered Dark Web OSINT active Dark web OSINT over Tor: search onion engines, scrape pages, report with your own model. | — | 7,549 |
| 3 | Zotero MCP active Search, read, annotate, and add to your Zotero research library, local or web. | 7,099 | 5,384 |
| 4 | Atlassian Rovo MCP Server activeremote Connect to Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Loom, and more to search, create, and manage your work. | — | 1,094 |
| 5 | basic-memory active Local-first knowledge management with bi-directional LLM sync via Markdown files. | 6,520 | 4,171 |
| 6 | llmwiki active Compile documents into a cited knowledge wiki. Retrieve evidence, query, and review via local MCP. | 1,670 | 2,182 |
| 7 | appwrite/mcp activeremote Manage Appwrite projects, databases, auth, storage, functions, and messaging; search Appwrite docs | 65.1k | 72 |
| 8 | beever-atlas active Open-source LLM knowledge base: team chat into a typed knowledge graph and auto-generated wiki. | — | 449 |
| 9 | GrayMatter active Persistent agent memory as a single Go binary: knowledge graph, TUI observability, zero infra. | — | 483 |
| 10 | Flutter MCP Toolkit active Inspect and drive Flutter debug apps/games: semantic snapshots, search, and custom client tools | — | 389 |
| 11 | Octocode MCP - AI Context Platform active AI code research platform. Search, analyze, and extract insights from any GitHub repository. | 2,118 | 950 |
| 12 | tw-legal-rag activeremote Citation-guarded retrieval over 22M Taiwan court judgments and administrative interpretations | — | 328 |
| 13 | anytype-mcp active Official MCP server for Anytype API - your encrypted, local and collaborative wiki. | 2,138 | 532 |
| 14 | mengram activeremote Long-term memory for AI agents: semantic facts, episodic events, and procedural workflows | — | 204 |
| 15 | seo-monster active Local-first SEO MCP: track AI citations, Search Console, GA4, PageSpeed, Cloudflare, IndexNow, CrUX. | 161 | 544 |
| 16 | ori-mnemos active Persistent memory infrastructure for AI agents. Identity, knowledge graph, and search. | 354 | 331 |
| 17 | Lumen at-risk Self-hostable agentic-AI LMS: catalog, RAG tutor, FSRS reviews, AI authoring, ingest. | — | 88 |
| 18 | Hexis activeremote Git-backed platform for skills, tools, and context for AI agents | — | 114 |
| 19 | AKShare active Let a model explore AKShare's 1000+ China market data functions on its own — search, inspect, call | 85 | 584 |
| 20 | Firecrawl MCP Server newremote MCP server for Firecrawl — web search, scraping, and biomedical/arXiv paper search. | 151.0k | — |
| 21 | Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine at-risk Search and explore the Holy Qur'an with Arabic text, transliteration, and advanced search support. | 131 | 286 |
| 22 | Repomix Pack local or remote codebases into AI-friendly files that LLMs and coding agents can read or search | 114.4k | — |
| 23 | mcp-documentation-server active Local-first document management and semantic search for AI coding agents | 63 | 343 |
| 24 | schemagate active Identity-scoped schema selection for text-to-SQL. Returns only the tables the caller may read. | 675 | 103 |
| 25 | Open Library active Search books and authors on the Internet Archive's Open Library | 195 | 95 |
| 26 | Myco: Agent-First Cognitive Substrate active Agent-first cognitive substrate: 20 verbs + 50 lint dims over a self-validating graph. | — | 66 |
| 27 | Redmine active Work with Redmine issues, projects, time entries, wiki pages and more. Read-only by default. | — | 53 |
| 28 | veritasgraph active Zero-trust, air-gapped Enterprise GraphRAG MCP server with offline, citation-grounded answers. | 34 | 324 |
| 29 | Hatchdoor active Self-host your Obsidian vaults: a web UI for you, MCP for your AI agents. No Obsidian, no plugins. | — | 58 |
| 30 | tavily-mcp MCP server for advanced web search using Tavily | 25.5k | — |
| 31 | brave-search-mcp-server remote Visit https://brave.com/search/api/ for a free API key. Search the web, local businesses, images,… | 25.1k | — |
| 32 | showagent active Search, resume and convert AI coding sessions (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode, Pi) over MCP. | — | 53 |
| 33 | docdex active Fast per-repo documentation indexer and full-text search MCP server for codebases. | 995 | 15 |
| 34 | ATXP — Agent Payment & Wallet Infrastructure at-risk Agent wallet, email, phone, and 41 paid tools: search, image/video/music gen, SMS, calls. | 238 | 45 |
| 35 | brightdata-mcp new Bright Data's Web MCP server enabling AI agents to search, extract & navigate the web | 18.9k | — |
| 36 | Bhived MCP active Shared knowledge graph, skills, and tool discovery for AI agents through the Model Context Protocol. | 377 | 35 |
| 37 | open-affiliate activeremote Search and discover affiliate programs with agent-ready data and commission details. | 28 | 115 |
| 38 | mcp-server-kalshi active MCP server for end-to-end trading on Kalshi prediction markets: discover, research, trade. | 203 | 31 |
| 39 | awesome-mcps MCP server for Blizzard games: WoW token price, achievements, Diablo seasons. Needs free API client. | 12.7k | — |
| 40 | iMessage History active Search and read your Apple Messages history from any MCP client. Read-only, local. | 258 | 27 |
| 41 | SearXNG Search new MCP server for SearXNG — privacy-respecting web search with pagination, URL reading | 12.0k | — |
| 42 | Cartographer active Governance MCP server for agent-maintained knowledge bases (OKF): git-backed writes, search, lint. | — | 38 |
| 43 | screenpipe new Search your local screen recordings, audio transcripts, and computer activity from screenpipe. | 9,582 | — |
| 44 | Codebase Memory Codebase knowledge graph for AI agents — 162 languages, sub-ms queries, 99% fewer tokens. | 9,343 | — |
| 45 | vinted-mcp active MCP Server for Vinted that allows to search items, compare prices, and analyze sellers. | 253 | 20 |
| 46 | OmniSeek active Your agent seeks what search can't find. A self-hosted perception MCP server. | 42 | 94 |
| 47 | align-cli active Cross-tool decision memory for AI coding agents: search your decision graph, check changes over MCP. | 3,088 | 2 |
| 48 | Canli Backtest activeremote Lookahead-free backtests: point-in-time SEC factors, your prices, real costs, every variant counted. | 6,059 | 0 |
| 49 | GEO Tracker by DigestSEO active Track brand citations across seven AI search surfaces. Free OSS; optional EUR 99 client-ready audit. | 148 | 37 |
| 50 | AitherOS ADK active Agent runtime with typed memory, knowledge and code graphs, plus file and web tools | 448 | 11 |