The MCP Eleven — The Top 11 MCP Servers on Earth, Ranked by Verified Data (With Every Install Line)

The companion kit to the video. Two days before the biggest MCP spec revision ever (July 28, 2026), I ranked every major MCP server by real, verifiable data — GitHub stars and npm weekly downloads, both pulled from the public APIs on July 26 — and then actually ran every single one, headless, before it earned its spot. INSIDE: (1) THE LEADERBOARD — all 11 servers with API-verified star counts and npm weekly downloads: the reference servers (88,913 stars), Context7 (59,784), Chrome DevTools MCP (47,640), Playwright MCP (35,512 stars but 6.4 MILLION weekly installs — #1 on npm), GitHub official (31,737), Serena (26,943), Blender MCP (24,878), n8n-MCP (22,412), Google's MCP Toolbox for Databases (16,023), Framelink Figma Context (15,504), and PAL ex-Zen (11,695). (2) 11 COPY-PASTE INSTALL LINES — one command per server, ready for Claude Code and adaptable to Cursor/Windsurf/VS Code. (3) THE REAL TEST RECEIPTS — what each server returned when I ran it, including the two honest failures: Blender MCP needs the app open (no headless mode), and Framelink returns zero tools until you create a free Figma token. (4) THE 4 DEAD SERVERS TO UNINSTALL — the archived reference packages still being installed 380,000+ times a week (server-postgres 129k, server-github 128k, server-slack 90k, server-puppeteer 35k) and the maintained replacement for each. (5) THE JULY 28 SPEC-DAY CHECKLIST — what stateless MCP, first-class Apps & Tasks extensions, and the OAuth alignment actually change for you, and why nothing in this kit breaks. Plus the 60-second audit for the servers you already have installed. Independent kit — no server paid for placement.

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