Best GNU MCP Servers
GNU is a free and open-source software project that provides a Unix-like operating system. It was founded by Richard Stallman in 1983 as part of his vision for software freedom. GNU stands for 'GNU's Not Unix' and is developed by the Free Software Foundation.
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Allows booting and managing GNU Hurd VMs with natural language, including SSH execution and serial console access.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceEnables AI assistants to run, manage, and debug BSD/Illumos VMs through natural language. Supports creating FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and OmniOS VMs, executing commands inside them, accessing console logs, and managing snapshots.71MITWhy this server?
Licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0, ensuring open-source distribution and modification rights for the MTA:SA documentation server.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceAn MCP server that provides AI assistants with access to Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas function documentation through vector similarity search and smart keyword expansion. It enables efficient information retrieval with features like deprecation warnings and SQLite caching for technical documentation.1137 npm8GPL 3.0Why this server?
Provides tools for reading, writing, and manipulating GNU Gettext .po translation files, including batch updates, context-aware lookups, and fuzzy entry detection.
AlicenseAqualityFmaintenanceA Model Context Protocol server for reading, writing, and managing GNU Gettext .po translation files, enabling language models to perform file operations, entry management, partial updates, and fuzzy entry detection.4MITWhy this server?
Engraves GNU LilyPond music notation sources into cropped PDF, EPS, SVG, and PNG assets, including preview images and diagnostics for iterating on scores.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceEnables engraving LilyPond sources into cropped, self-contained EPS, PDF, SVG, and PNG assets for placement in page-layout software, with support for files or inline code and helpful diagnostics on failure.327 npm1MITWhy this server?
Provides arbitrary precision arithmetic operations and mathematical functions by integrating with the GNU bc (Basic Calculator) command-line tool, supporting calculations with configurable precision up to 100 decimal places.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceProvides arbitrary precision arithmetic operations and advanced mathematical computations through the Unix bc calculator, supporting complex expressions, mathematical functions, and multi-line scripts with configurable precision.3MITWhy this server?
Enables interaction with GDB (GNU Debugger) for debugging and binary analysis, providing tools for session management, program loading, execution control, breakpoint setting, and memory/register examination.
AlicenseCqualityBmaintenanceEnables LLM clients to interact with the GNU Debugger (GDB) for comprehensive debugging and binary analysis. It provides a wide range of tools for program execution control, memory examination, stack analysis, and disassembly.61374GPL 3.0Why this server?
Provides indexed code search and navigation capabilities using GNU Global's tags engine, enabling fast definition lookup, reference search, call hierarchy, and code exploration for large codebases.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceProvides fast, indexed code navigation (definitions, references, callers, etc.) for AI coding agents by leveraging GNU Global (gtags), dramatically reducing context noise compared to grep.880 PyPI1MITWhy this server?
Provides tools for debugging C++ programs using the GNU Debugger (GDB), including session management, breakpoints, stepping, backtrace, variable inspection, and expression evaluation.
AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceProvides GDB and clangd-based tools for debugging C++ programs, enabling step execution, variable inspection, diagnostics, and combined runtime-static analysis.271MITWhy this server?
Provides parsing and diagnostic support for GNU toolchain outputs, including GNU ld .map files and GCC compiler errors.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceEnables AI agents to directly inspect and debug embedded hardware: reading/writing serial ports and bus devices, auto-detecting baud rates, parsing Modbus/NMEA/custom binary frames, plus diagnosing failures through a 45-rule fault-pattern library, error-code tables, and compile/flash error translation. Also provides pin-conflict checking, register and Cortex-M fault decoding, pre-validated driver and component selection libraries, board knowledge, and guarded flashing with post-flash byte-level verification.59MIT