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Guide for creating high-quality MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that enable LLMs to interact with external services through well-designed tools. Use when building MCP servers to integrate external APIs or services, whether in Python (FastMCP) or Node/TypeScript (MCP SDK).

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182,226 stars Updated 26d ago License Apache-2.0 Context ≈72 tokens always loaded
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Why this score

Stars28/35
Usage (forks)13/15
Upkeep25/25
License15/15
Owner history10/10

This repo hosts 19 skills, so its 182,226 stars are split between them (about 9,591 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 91/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

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Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit dbd4588f9e10, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

What its code does:

  • Uses dependencies without a pinned version A later version of a dependency could change what runs.scripts/requirements.txt:1 and 1 more

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