best of · updated September 2026

The 15 best documentation MCP servers

The 15 documentation MCP servers worth your time, out of 883 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 ★ 62,152 · commit 2026-09-18 Up-to-date code docs for any prompt 3,719,962 installs/mo · 2 tools documented · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @upstash/context7-mcp 02 GitLab MCP ★ 1,984 · commit 2026-09-16 📖 Documentation → Setup guides, environment variables, and the full tool reference live on the hosted docs site. 497,724 installs/mo · 40 tools documented · 10+ releases/90d · needs 12 env vars $ npx -y @zereight/mcp-gitlab 03 Svelte MCP ★ 326 · commit 2026-09-16 Repo for the official Svelte MCP server. 107,543 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @sveltejs/mcp 04 Appwrite MCP Server ★ 72 · commit 2026-09-16 A Model Context Protocol server for Appwrite. 139,590 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx mcp-server-appwrite 05 Gk CLI ★ 458 · commit 2026-09-16 The GitKraken MCP Server for managing repos, PRs, issues across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and more. 21,076 installs/mo · 3 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @gitkraken/gk 06 Obsidian MCP Server ★ 681 · commit 2026-09-13 Read, write, search, and surgically edit Obsidian vault notes, tags, and frontmatter via MCP. 23,014 installs/mo · 14 tools documented · 10+ releases/90d · needs 4 env vars $ npx -y obsidian-mcp-server 07 Google Drive MCP ★ 219 · commit 2026-09-17 Connect an MCP client to Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Calendar through one self-hosted server. 38,293 installs/mo · 9 releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @piotr-agier/google-drive-mcp 08 Esa ★ 62 · commit 2026-09-18 Official MCP server for esa.io - a documentation sharing service for teams. 21,296 installs/mo · 3 releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ npx -y @esaio/esa-mcp-server 09 IWE ★ 1,650 · commit 2026-09-17 IWE turns a directory of markdown files into a knowledge graph - a connected structure you browse from your editor and your AI queries from the command line. 2,104 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @iwe-org/mcp 10 jDocmunch MCP ★ 203 · commit 2026-09-18 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. 8,218 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · needs 1 env var $ uvx jdocmunch-mcp 11 ITASCA MCP Server ★ 191 · commit 2026-09-17 Give AI agents full access to ITASCA PFC, FLAC3D, 3DEC, MPoint, MassFlow: docs, simulation, plots. 4,735 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ uvx itasca-mcp 12 Qveris ★ 263 · commit 2026-09-18 Bring professional data to the AI you already use. 3,141 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @qverisai/mcp 13 Doc Bridge ★ 7 · commit 2026-09-18 npm: @agentskit/doc-bridge · CLI: ak-docs · Landing: agentskit-io.github.io/doc-bridge. 28,401 installs/mo · 10+ releases/90d · no env vars documented $ npx -y @agentskit/doc-bridge 14 Octocode ★ 475 · commit 2026-09-16 Give your AI assistant a brain for your codebase. 1,696 installs/mo · 7 tools documented · 10+ releases/90d · needs 5 env vars $ npx -y @muvon/octocode 15 Genexus ★ 32 · commit 2026-09-18 10 documented tools with a focus on genexus; local stdio install. 9,817 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 (3,719,962 last month) and actively maintained. 4 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 3,719,962 installs in the last month (as of September 2026).

How many documentation MCP servers exist?

We track 883 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 205 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 205, all of which you can see on this page. The other 678 we track have stopped being maintained, or nobody is using them yet. Full recipe: how we verify.