I spent an afternoon digging through the MCP ecosystem numbers. Here is what I found.

The numbers

13,000+ MCP servers on npm and GitHub (as of May 2026)

97 million monthly SDK downloads — that is 3x from 6 months ago

400% YoY growth in new server registrations

Anthropic official servers reach 48,500 downloads/month for filesystem alone

What this means

MCP is not just a protocol anymore. It is becoming the standard way to give AI models access to tools — databases, APIs, file systems, everything.

But here is the gap: discovery. Finding the right MCP server is still painful. You search npm with guesswork or dig through folders on GitHub.

What I built

npm install -g mcp-hub mcp-hub search database mcp-hub install @modelcontextprotocol/server-postgres

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Six commands. Five official servers in the registry.…