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Read-only MCP servers

1,620 MCP servers declare tools that only read: none of their tools is classed write or destructive. That makes them the safest place to start giving an agent access. Read-only describes the tools, not the code, so the audit verdict still decides whether to connect one.

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ModelsAtlas. “Read-only MCP servers”. Retrieved 29 Oct 2026. https://modelsatlas.com/mcp/read-only/page/3

Verdicts · 1,620 servers

✓SAFE913!CAUTION261✕BLOCK446

Transports

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1,620 servers

49–72 of 1,620 · ranked by trust score, then stars

Obsidian

stevenstavrakis/obsidian-mcp

✓SAFE B

A simple MCP server for Obsidian

★ 7362 readstdio

A-Share

24mlight/a-share-mcp-is-just-i-need

✓SAFE B
★ 64641 readstdio

Workers

cloudflare/workers-mcp

!CAUTION B

Talk to a Cloudflare Worker from Claude Desktop!

★ 6451 readstdio

Apple Doc

mightydillah/apple-doc-mcp

✓SAFE B

MCP server providing seamless access to Apple Developer Documentation with smart search and wildcard support

★ 6336 readstdio

Corbell

corbell-ai/corbell

!CAUTION B

AI-powered spec generation and review using multi-repo code graph intelligence for backend teams that ship to production.

★ 6284 readsse

Google Search

web-agent-master/google-search

✓SAFE B

A Playwright-based Node.js tool that bypasses search engine anti-scraping mechanisms to execute Google searches. Local alternative to SERP APIs with MCP server integration.

★ 6211 readstdio

bm.md

miantiao-me/bm.md

✓SAFE B

更好用的 Markdown 排版助手|专为微信公众号与多平台排版设计,支持富文本复制、图片生成与矢量 PDF 导出。

★ 61824 read

YouTube Transcript

kimtaeyoon83/mcp-server-youtube-transcript

✓SAFE B

This is an MCP server that allows you to directly download transcripts of YouTube videos.

★ 5981 readstdio

Wire

0xkoda/wiremcp

✓SAFE B

An MCP for WireShark (tshark). Empower LLM's with realtime network traffic analysis capability

★ 5867 readstdio

X64dbg

wasdubya/x64dbgmcp

✓SAFE B

Model Context Protocol for x64dbg & x32dbg

★ 58556 read

YouTube

zubeidhendricks/youtube-mcp-server

!CAUTION B

MCP Server for YouTube API, enabling video management, Shorts creation, and advanced analytics

★ 57710 readstdio

WeRead

freestylefly/mcp-server-weread

✓SAFE B

微信读书MCP

★ 5764 readstdio

Todoist MCP Server

Doist/todoist-mcp

✓SAFE B

A set of tools to connect to AI agents, to allow them to use Todoist on a user's behalf. Includes MCP support.

★ 5577 readstdio

Todoist

doist/todoist-mcp

✓SAFE B

A set of tools to connect to AI agents, to allow them to use Todoist on a user's behalf. Includes MCP support.

★ 5537 readstdio

Airbnb

openbnb-org/mcp-server-airbnb

✓SAFE B

Search Airbnb using your AI Agent

★ 5472 readstdio

YouTube

anaisbetts/mcp-youtube

✓SAFE B

A Model-Context Protocol Server for YouTube

★ 5461 readstdio

Pg-Mcp

stuzero/pg-mcp-server

✓SAFE B
★ 5415 read

Kagi

kagisearch/kagimcp

✓SAFE B

The Official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Kagi Search & other tools.

★ 5281 readstreamable-http

MotherDuck

motherduckdb/mcp-server-motherduck

✓SAFE B

Local MCP server for DuckDB and MotherDuck

★ 5253 readstdio

Web Agent Protocol

ota-tech-ai/web-agent-protocol

✓SAFE B

🌐Web Agent Protocol (WAP) - Record and replay user interactions in the browser with MCP support

★ 5082 readstdio

Youtube Transcript

jkawamoto/mcp-youtube-transcript

!CAUTION B

MCP server retrieving transcripts of YouTube videos

★ 4862 readstdio

Google Map

cablate/mcp-google-map

✓SAFE B

18 Google Maps tools and 3 Agent Skills for place search, routes, travel planning, and local SEO—via MCP or standalone CLI.

★ 4671 readstdio

Weixin Reader

bwkyd/wexin-read-mcp

✓SAFE B

能够让大模型阅读微信公众号文章,使用浏览器模拟绕过反爬虫。

★ 4521 read

Baidu Maps

baidu-maps/mcp

✓SAFE B

Baidu Map MCP Server

★ 44511 readstdio

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Questions

What does read-only mean here?
A server is listed here when its source declares at least one tool and every tool is classed read: no write tools and no destructive tools.
Is a read-only server always safe?
No. 913 are SAFE, 261 CAUTION and 446 BLOCK on this list. A tool list says what the tools do, not whether the surrounding code is clean, so a read-only server can still be BLOCK.
Why are some servers on no risk list?
615 servers declare no tools we can read, because they build the list at runtime. They cannot be called read-only, so they appear on none of the risk hubs.

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