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

One ranked list per intent: 80,419 agent skills, MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, plugins and marketplaces, ranked by 148M real installs from the skills.sh registry plus GitHub stars - never by paid placement. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and any MCP client. Think awesome-mcp-servers, but ranked by data.

Ranked by Skillselion · adoption from the skills.sh registry & GitHub · refreshed daily, last on July 2026.

Want one flat list? The Top 100 leaderboard ranks everything by installs.

Top 10 right now

The 10 most-installed agent skills

find-skillsvercel-labs3M installs
frontend-designanthropics708k installs
grill-memattpocock669k installs
agent-browservercel-labs582k installs
vercel-react-best-practicesvercel-labs582k installs
grill-with-docsmattpocock567k installs
improve-codebase-architecturemattpocock550k installs
tddmattpocock529k installs
web-design-guidelinesvercel-labs492k installs
microsoft-foundrymicrosoft483k installs

Full rankings: the Top 100 skills and the Top 25 MCP servers.

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

Ranked within one problem area each - security, testing, frontend design - so a tool only competes against tools that do the same 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 100 - skills, MCP servers and marketplaces ranked by real installs, refreshed daily.
Browse everything: agent skills, MCP servers, 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?

Each ranked list orders the Skillselion catalog by real adoption - installs from the skills.sh registry first, then GitHub stars. There is no paid placement in the ranking: sponsored slots, when present, are labelled separately and never reorder the list.

What is the best MCP server right now?

Labelhead Artist Momentum leads the MCP rankings with 74.8k GitHub stars as of July 2026. Most MCP servers do not report installs yet, so they rank by stars - and every vendor page force-includes the vendor's official server, marked OFFICIAL. See the Top 25 MCP servers on the leaderboard.

What are the best Claude Code skills?

find-skills is the most-installed agent skill right now, with 3M installs from the skills.sh registry as of July 2026. The Top 100 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 adoption climbs without anyone re-curating by hand. Each listing also carries its repository’s last-push date as a freshness signal.