Friday, October 16, 2026

I tested 70 MCP server addresses; here are the 59 that answered

AI illustration: dozens of small brass beacons glow amber and green across a tabletop at night while a brass probe in the center sends arcs of light to them; a laptop shows a heartbeat line and an open notebook is filled with rows of colored dots.
AI illustration, not a photograph: seventy addresses pinged, the answers logged in colored dots. Made by Chris with ChatGPT, prompted with the full text of this post.

Every week another company announces an MCP server, and every list of them I find is a mix of official servers, hobby projects, and addresses that stopped working months ago. So tonight Claude and I tested them. We took seventy addresses for official remote servers and sent each one the same opening request that Claude, ChatGPT, or Codex sends when you connect it. Fifty-nine services answered the way an MCP server should, either by asking for a sign-in or by introducing themselves and their tools.

The result is a cheat sheet on the wiki, MCP servers, sorted by what each service does: work and hiring, projects, files, payments, SEO, websites, hosting, developer documentation, and more. Each row has the exact address to paste into your AI client and what kind of sign-in it wants. The Google entries surprised me most: Gmail, Calendar, Drive, BigQuery, and Maps each have their own server at Google, behind a Google Cloud sign-in.

The page is dated, because these addresses move. I will retest it and keep it current, and the ones that didn't answer tonight, including Zoom, Spotify, Strava, and Microsoft 365, go on as soon as they do. If you know an official server I missed, write to me.

The prompt for “I tested 70 MCP server addresses; here are the 59 that answered”

If you create a comprehansice cheat sheet of MCP even if it's only as of today, I might become very popular as a site almist immediately.