MCP Clients

Claude Desktop

Free

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• Desktop
• Tools
• Resources
• Prompts
• Roots
• Apps
• DCR

Anthropic's official desktop app for Claude on macOS and Windows. The original reference MCP client — install MCP servers via the config file and Claude can call their tools, read their resources, and use their prompts mid-conversation.

• Desktop
• Tools
• Prompts
• Roots
• Elicitation
• DCR

Cursor is an AI-first code editor fork of VS Code that helps you code faster with built-in chat, edit, and debugging AI features. It supports MCP for enhanced AI capabilities and tool integration.

• Desktop
• Tools
• Resources
• Prompts
• Discovery
• Instructions
• Sampling
• Roots
• Elicitation
• Apps
• DCR

Goose is a general-purpose AI agent that can dynamically plug into new extensions and learn how to use them. It solves higher-level problems using tools from multiple extensions and can interact with multiple extensions at once.

• Desktop
• Tools
• Resources
• Prompts
• Discovery
• Instructions
• Sampling
• Roots
• Elicitation
• Tasks
• Apps
• CIMD
• DCR

VS Code integrates MCP with GitHub Copilot through agent mode, allowing direct interaction with MCP-provided tools within your agentic coding workflow.

• Tools
• Resources
• Prompts
• Discovery
• Instructions
• Roots
• Elicitation
• DCR

Claude Code is an interactive agentic coding tool from Anthropic that helps you code faster through natural language commands. It supports MCP integration for resources, prompts, tools, and roots, and also functions as an MCP server to integrate wit…

• Tools
• Resources
• Prompts
• Roots

ECA is a Free and open-source editor-agnostic tool that aims to easily link LLMs and Editors, giving the best UX possible for AI pair programming using a well-defined protocol

• Tools
• Resources
• Prompts
• Discovery
• Instructions
• Sampling
• Roots
• Elicitation

fast-agent is a Python Agent framework, with simple declarative support for creating Agents and Workflows, with full multi-modal support for Anthropic and OpenAI models.

• Tools
• Resources
• Prompts
• Sampling
• Roots
• Elicitation

mcp-agent is a simple, composable framework to build agents using Model Context Protocol.

• CLI
• Tools
• Resources
• Prompts
• Discovery
• Sampling
• Roots
• Elicitation

VT Code is a terminal coding agent that integrates with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, focusing on predictable tool permissions and robust transport controls.