Best MCP Servers for Coding
UI components, observability dashboards, API testing, payment integration, and platform management — tools that accelerate development workflows.
8 coding servers reviewed. 6 recommended, 2 conditional, 0 skip.
✅ Recommended
Context7 MCP Server
✅ RecommendedInjects up-to-date, version-specific library documentation directly into LLM prompts — solves the hallucinated API problem.
Git MCP Server
✅ RecommendedAnthropic's reference server for local Git operations — read files, search commits, view diffs, and inspect history without API keys.
GitLab MCP Server
✅ RecommendedThree integration paths — GitLab's built-in MCP (18.6+), Anthropic's reference server, and feature-rich community options with 60+ tools.
Anthropic MCP Connector
✅ RecommendedAPI feature that connects Claude to any remote MCP server without writing client code — add a URL to your API request and Anthropic handles the rest.
shadcn/ui MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial shadcn CLI-integrated server for browsing, searching, and installing UI components from shadcn registries via natural language.
Stripe MCP Server
✅ RecommendedOfficial Stripe server for managing customers, products, payments, subscriptions, and invoices — with permission-scoped tools via Restricted API Keys.
⚠️ Conditional
Grafana MCP Server
⚠️ ConditionalOfficial Grafana server for searching dashboards, running PromQL and LogQL queries, managing OnCall, and working with Tempo traces — all from your AI client.
Sentry MCP Server
⚠️ ConditionalOfficial Sentry server for searching issues, events, and errors — includes AI-powered fix recommendations via Sentry's Seer integration.
How We Test Coding MCP Servers
Every coding server was tested in real development workflows — installing components, querying dashboards, testing APIs, and managing deployments. We evaluate how well each server integrates into an existing development process and whether it genuinely saves time compared to using the tool's native interface directly.