MCP servers · least privilege
MCP servers with no destructive tools
3,151 MCP servers declare at least one tool and none of them is classed destructive: nothing deletes, overwrites or runs a command through a declared tool. 1,622 of them only read; the rest may create or edit.
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Verdicts · 3,151 servers
Transports
- stdio, runs locally2,195
- Streamable HTTP, remote1,064
- SSE, legacy remote253
- Not declared563
A server can list more than one transport.
Gholls/mcp-hub
Interactive micro-tools for humans and AI agents — a reference implementation of MCP Apps (SEP-1865) UI cards over Streamable HTTP MCP.
smeet666/mcp-imslp
MCP server for IMSLP, the Petrucci Music Library. Read works, scores and recordings. No API key required.
pipeworx-io/mcp-iso-ne
Real-time power grid data for ISO New England, the electricity market and grid operator for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont: wholesale electricity prices, system demand, and electricity generation by fuel type.
pipeworx-io/mcp-knmi
KNMI Data Platform (Open Data API) MCP.
pipeworx-io/mcp-kosis-kr
Korean national statistics (KOSIS) — browse, search and pull time series from Statistics Korea's official statistical database of ~100,000 tables covering population, prices, employment, trade and industry.
pipeworx-io/mcp-la-metro
LA Metro (LACMTA) MCP — routes, stops and live service cancellations for
pipeworx-io/mcp-law-commission
Law Commission of England & Wales — publications and law-reform projects.
pipeworx-io/mcp-meteoswiss
Swiss weather and federal geodata from MeteoSwiss and swisstopo on data.geo.admin.ch — find SwissMetNet automatic weather stations, radar, pollen, ICON forecasts and climate normals, plus elevation and topographic layers, and get the direct CSV, GeoTIFF and NetCDF download URLs for each.
pipeworx-io/mcp-mgnify
MGnify — EMBL-EBI's metagenomics resource: public microbiome studies, the biome vocabulary they are classified under, and the ~57,000 MAGs and isolate genomes in its species-level genome catalogues, with completeness, contamination and GTDB taxonomy for each.
pipeworx-io/mcp-miso
Real-time electricity data for MISO, the grid operator for 15 US states from Louisiana to Minnesota plus Manitoba: generation by fuel type, power demand, five-minute wholesale electricity prices, wind and solar output, and the transmission constraints driving congestion.
pipeworx-io/mcp-mobility-database
MobilityData's open catalogue of public-transport feeds — ~4,500 GTFS schedule feeds and ~1,900 realtime feeds worldwide, each with the operator's own download URL.
pipeworx-io/mcp-mozilla-observatory
MDN HTTP Observatory — grade any website's HTTP security headers and get the specific fixes, from Mozilla's public scanner.
pipeworx-io/mcp-nasa-ads
NASA ADS — the Astrophysics Data System, api.adsabs.harvard.edu.
pipeworx-io/mcp-nasa-firms
NASA FIRMS MCP — active-fire / thermal-anomaly detections from MODIS and VIIRS.
pipeworx-io/mcp-nasa-gibs
NASA GIBS MCP — the satellite-imagery layer catalogue behind Worldview.
pipeworx-io/mcp-ncbi-datasets
NCBI Datasets — the US National Library of Medicine's genome, gene and taxonomy reference service: which assemblies exist for an organism and how good they are, where a gene sits on the genome and what it is called everywhere else, and the NCBI taxonomy tree with per-node assembly and gene counts.
pipeworx-io/mcp-ncbi-variation
dbSNP refSNP records and HGVS/SPDI/rsID normalization for human genetic variants, from NCBI Variation Services.
pipeworx-io/mcp-nci-evs
NCI Thesaurus concepts and the other cancer-research vocabularies served by NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services: codes, synonyms, definitions and hierarchy.
pipeworx-io/mcp-newswire-com
Newswire.com MCP — press releases from Newswire's public newsroom feed.
pipeworx-io/mcp-ni-caselaw
Northern Ireland court and tribunal judicial decisions — judiciaryni.uk.
pipeworx-io/mcp-noaa-coastwatch
NOAA CoastWatch — satellite and model ocean data via ERDDAP.
pipeworx-io/mcp-noaa-ncei
NOAA NCEI MCP — the national climate archive, via the keyless Access services
pipeworx-io/mcp-noaa-ndbc
NOAA NDBC MCP — National Data Buoy Center marine observations
pipeworx-io/mcp-noirlab-datalab
NOIRLab Astro Data Lab — datalab.noirlab.edu.
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