Best Developer tools MCP servers

A reference server exercising every MCP feature — useful for testing clients.

Read, search, and manipulate a local Git repository.

Repositories, issues, and pull requests via the GitHub API.

Projects, issues, and merge requests via the GitLab API.

Talk to a running JetBrains IDE — files, refactors, and run configs.

Run code snippets in many languages and return the output.

Run code in a secure cloud sandbox.

Run terminal commands and edit files on your machine.

Read and drive the active iTerm terminal session (macOS).

Run allow-listed shell commands and return their output.

Pull up-to-date, version-specific library docs into the model.

Generate React UI components from a natural-language prompt.

Read Figma files and frames so an agent can implement the design.

Convert PDFs, Office docs, and more to markdown.

Drive a real browser for navigation, scraping, and testing.

Inspect and operate a Kubernetes cluster via kubectl.

Retrieve and triage Sentry issues.

Query the Shopify Dev APIs and docs.