Useful MCPs
MCPs are essentially toolbox you can give an agent to access data or perform tasks.
DIY
- 5eTools - my vibecoded D&D tool with homebrew support
- Color Theory - color tools, context, palette & swatch generation
- Brad MCP - an interface to my personal data
MCPs
- ATProto - there’s a couple…
- AT Explore - remote option for network data
- Ashex/atproto-mcp - for local development
- Lexicon Garden
- Bitwarden - credentials
- Buffer - social media scheduling
- CalDAV
- Chart - Antviz charts
- Context7 - Code library docs
- EXIF - photo metadata including XMP
- Infographic - Antviz infographics
- Obsidian
- turbovault - Way more features, multi-vault
- MCPVault - Good, needs MCP per vault though
- Mermaid - Mermaid diagrams
- OCR - render text from images without LLM/GPU
- OpenAlex - open research, free $1/day API
- OpenNutrition - food info fuzzy matched by name, brand, barcode, ID
- Outline Wiki - document and collection management
- Perplexity
- Playwright - agent browser
- Vikunja for selfhosted project management and todos
- Weather - this one has tons of good tools
- Wikipedia
Deployment
Currently working on setting these up in MetaMCP in a Homelab VM so I only have to configure them once, then my tools or agents can access over my LAN.
graph LR
A1[Agent 1] -->|SSE / HTTP| GW[MetaMCP]
A2[Agent 2] -->|SSE / HTTP| GW
T1[Tool / App] -->|SSE / HTTP| GW
GW --> AUTH[Auth / Session]
GW --> TR[Tool Registry]
TR -->|stdio / SSE| MCP1[MCP Server A]
TR -->|stdio / SSE| MCP2[MCP Server B]
TR -->|stdio / SSE| MCP3[MCP Server C]