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MCP servers on GitHub come from four different places — the official repo, company org accounts, community awesome-lists, and solo maintainers — each with a different built-in trust level. A real checklist (commit recency, permissions requested, license, maintainer history) for telling a trustworthy server from one that will waste your afternoon.

Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and Windsurf all have native MCP support in 2026 — plus a growing list of extensions like Cline, Continue, Zed, and JetBrains's AI Assistant. Here's what's actually native vs. add-on, and how to tell the difference before you assume a tool supports it.

MCP and REST API solve different problems and aren't really competing designs — REST is a convention for building HTTP APIs a human developer integrates once; MCP is a protocol for letting an AI agent discover and call tools dynamically, often by wrapping an existing REST API underneath.

Every MCP server on DReview is tagged local or remote — here's what that actually means for setup, data access, and trust, with real examples from the directory.

A practical walkthrough for building a working MCP server with the official TypeScript SDK — from scaffolding a project to testing it in the MCP Inspector and wiring it into Claude Desktop.