Best of

The best MCP servers & Claude Code skills, ranked by data

For MCP servers, no defensible overall usage winner exists. The August 2026 MCP Server Census found no install count for any of 8,433 servers, while stars belong to host repositories rather than measuring server use. The Top 25 is therefore ordered by repository stars; vendor and job lists below compare like-for-like options.

Skills use installs from the skills.sh registry (231M tracked); MCP servers use host-repository stars · refreshed daily, last on October 2026.

Best-of is the curated vendor-and-job index. To inspect all 9,787 catalogued server, use the complete MCP server directory; the Top 25 leaderboard keeps the separate ranking methods visible.

Top 10 right now

The 10 most-installed agent skills

find-skillsvercel-labs4M installs
grill-memattpocock1M installs
agent-browservercel-labs1M installs
grill-with-docsmattpocock1M installs
hyperframes-cliheygen-com1M installs
hyperframesheygen-com1M installs
improve-codebase-architecturemattpocock1M installs
tddmattpocock1M installs
media-useheygen-com1M installs
reddit-automationflowkit-labs1M installs

Full rankings: Top 25 skills by installs and Top 25 MCP servers by repository stars.

By vendor

Best MCP servers by vendor & integration

Connecting your agent to one specific product? Each page ranks every “genuinely-for-this-vendor” MCP server - with the vendor's official server always included and marked OFFICIAL - and ends with a hand-written verdict.

By job

Best tools for the job in front of you

Want a job list? The Top 25 skills for developers is the flat ranking; design, marketing and finance have their own shortlists below.

Top skills by job

Best skills by job

Best MCP servers by job

Best plugins by job

Best marketplaces by job

The flat lists

Every ranking in one place

The Skillselion Top 25 - skills and marketplaces by installs; MCP servers by host-repository stars; refreshed daily.
Browse everything: agent skills, MCP server directory, marketplaces.
The State of AI Agent Skills 2026 - the ecosystem in numbers, free to cite.

By build stage

Shortlists by stage of the build

Prefer slicing by where you are between first idea and production? The same catalog, ranked within each stage.

FAQ

Common questions

How are the "best" tools chosen?

Agent skills are ordered by installs from the skills.sh registry, then GitHub stars. MCP servers lack comparable install data, so the Top 25 is ordered by host-repository stars. Vendor and job pages compare tools that serve the same integration or task. Paid placement never reorders a list.

What is the best MCP server right now?

No measured overall usage winner exists. Sequential Thinking currently leads the Top 25 when ordered by 90.1k host-repository stars as of October 2026, but repository stars are not MCP server usage. Compare servers for the same vendor or job before choosing one.

What are the best Claude Code skills?

find-skills is the most-installed agent skill right now, with 4M installs from the skills.sh registry as of October 2026. The Top 25 skills are ranked by real installs on the leaderboard, and the job-based lists below rank skills within one problem area each.

How are the shortlists grouped?

By the integration you are connecting - GitHub, Notion, Postgres, and 18 more vendor pages - and by the job in front of you, like security, testing or frontend design. Tools compete only against tools that do the same job, so every #1 is a like-for-like winner.

Are these tools free?

The listings are open-source agent skills, MCP servers, plugins and marketplaces - effectively free MCP servers and skills you install with a single command. Skillselion is an independent directory, not the vendor; pricing, when a tool has any, lives on the tool itself.

How often are the rankings updated?

Rankings regenerate daily from the live catalog, so a tool that gains installs or repository stars can move without anyone re-curating by hand. Each listing also carries its repository’s last-push date as a freshness signal.