Remote MCP servers
43,159 servers you connect by URL over streamable HTTP. Nothing to install or keep running on your machine.
43,159 servers you connect by URL over streamable HTTP. Nothing to install or keep running on your machine.
A remote MCP server runs on someone else's infrastructure and your client connects to it by URL over streamable HTTP (older servers use SSE). Sign-in usually happens through OAuth in the browser instead of an API key in a config file.
Local servers run as a process on your machine and can reach your files and private network. Remote servers need no runtime and update themselves, but your data goes to the provider. Pick remote for SaaS products, local for files, databases on your network and anything offline.
In Claude Code run claude mcp add --transport http <name> <url>. In Cursor and Gemini CLI add the URL under mcpServers; in VS Code add it under servers with "type": "http". Each server page has the exact config.
PermID MCP — Refinitiv / LSEG Permanent Identifier (free, requires API key)
$claude mcp add mcp-permid -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-permidPhoton MCP — OSM geocoder
$claude mcp add mcp-photon -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-photonGo modules MCP — wraps proxy.golang.org
$claude mcp add mcp-pkg-go-dev -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-pkg-go-devPLOS Search MCP — Solr-backed search over all PLOS journals.
$claude mcp add mcp-plos -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-plosPubChem MCP — NIH chemistry compound database (no auth)
$claude mcp add mcp-pubchem -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-pubchemPVGIS MCP — EU Joint Research Centre PV system modeler
$claude mcp add mcp-pvgis -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-pvgisRCSB PDB MCP — experimentally determined macromolecular structures.
$claude mcp add mcp-rcsb-pdb -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-rcsb-pdbReactome MCP — open biological pathway knowledge-base.
$claude mcp add mcp-reactome -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-reactomeRegulations.gov MCP — federal regulatory dockets, documents, public comments
$claude mcp add mcp-regulations-gov -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-regulations-govRemotive MCP — curated remote-only job board
$claude mcp add mcp-remotive -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-remotiveRepology MCP — cross-distro package version aggregator.
$claude mcp add mcp-repology -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-repologyRIPE Stat MCP — IP/ASN/BGP data
$claude mcp add mcp-ripe-stat -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-ripe-statROR MCP — Research Organization Registry.
$claude mcp add mcp-ror -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-rorSchemaStore MCP
$claude mcp add mcp-schemastore -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-schemastoreSolscan MCP — Solana block-explorer + network analytics
$claude mcp add mcp-solscan -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-solscanSPDX License List MCP
$claude mcp add mcp-spdx-license -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-spdx-licenseSpotify MCP — Web API via client_credentials OAuth
$claude mcp add mcp-spotify -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-spotifySquiggle MCP — AFL fixture / results / tips.
$claude mcp add mcp-squiggle -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-squiggleSTRING-DB MCP — protein-protein interaction networks.
$claude mcp add mcp-string-db -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-string-dbStudio Ghibli MCP — fan API. Auth: none. Docs: https://ghibliapi.vercel.app
$claude mcp add mcp-studio-ghibli -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-studio-ghibli