THE INDEX · CLIENTS
Clients
Applications that consume MCP servers — the other end of every connection you build. Listed because which clients support which parts of the specification determines what a server can rely on.
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What belongs in this category
- Desktop, web, and terminal applications that connect to MCP servers
- IDEs and coding agents with MCP support
- Open-source chat interfaces with MCP support
ChatGPT
Clients
ChatGPT is a hosted chat application that connects to remote MCP servers over streamable HTTP and exposes their tools to the model in a conversation. A server can also register a UI resource so an MCP Apps component renders inline in the chat.
SaaS
Claude Code
Clients
Claude Code is an AI coding agent from Anthropic, used from the terminal, as an extension for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, or from a browser, mobile app, or desktop app. It reads codebases with agentic search, and can read issues, write code, run tests, and submit pull requests on GitHub and GitLab.
Hybrid
Claude Desktop
Clients
Claude Desktop is a downloadable desktop application for using Claude, available for macOS and Windows. It connects to local MCP servers configured through a JSON file, and to remote MCP servers by adding Custom Connectors.
Desktop app
Cline
Clients
Cline is an open source coding agent that runs as a VS Code extension, a JetBrains plugin, a terminal CLI, or an embeddable SDK. It connects to MCP servers over stdio, Streamable HTTP or SSE so their tools can be used alongside its built-in ones.
Not disclosed
Continue
Clients
Continue is an AI coding assistant delivered as IDE extensions and as a terminal command-line agent (`cn`) with TUI and headless modes. It connects to Model Context Protocol servers, which let it reach external tools, systems and databases from its agent mode.
Not disclosed
Cursor
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Cursor is a coding agent used to understand a codebase, plan and build features, fix bugs, and review changes. It connects to Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers configured in project or global `mcp.json` files, or registered programmatically through its extension API.
Desktop app
Gemini CLI
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Gemini CLI is an open-source AI agent that runs in a terminal and connects to Google's Gemini models. It ships built-in tools for file operations, shell commands, web fetching and Google Search grounding, and supports the Model Context Protocol for connecting external tools.
CLI tool
Goose
Clients
Open-source agent as desktop app and CLI, connecting to MCP servers as extensions
Desktop app
LibreChat
Clients
LibreChat is a self-hosted, open-source AI chat platform that brings multiple AI model providers together in a single interface. Beyond chat it provides AI agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, artifacts, a code interpreter, custom actions, conversation search, and multi-user authentication.
Self-hosted
Open WebUI
Clients
Open WebUI is a self-hosted AI platform, used through the browser, that connects to models served by Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible API, whether local or cloud-hosted. It is extended with Python plugins - Filters, Actions, Pipes, Tools and Skills - and reaches external services through MCP, MCPO and OpenAPI tool servers.
Self-hosted
Visual Studio Code
Clients
Visual Studio Code is an open source code editor whose chat agent connects to MCP servers declared in an mcp.json file in a workspace or in the user profile. It supports the stdio, Streamable HTTP and legacy SSE transports, and consumes server tools, prompts, resources, elicitation, sampling, roots and MCP Apps.
Desktop app
Warp
Clients
Warp is an open source terminal for AI-assisted software development that runs coding agents alongside the shell on macOS, Linux and Windows. Its local agents connect to MCP servers added in the app or read from ~/.warp/.mcp.json and .warp/.mcp.json files, over a launched command, Streamable HTTP or SSE.
Desktop app
Windsurf
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Windsurf is a desktop IDE for Mac, Windows, and Linux whose built-in Cascade agent acts as an MCP client, connecting to servers over stdio, Streamable HTTP, and SSE listed in ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json. The vendor has rebranded the editor to Devin Desktop, and its Linux packages now install devin-desktop with windsurf kept as a transitional package.
Desktop app
Zed
Clients
Zed is a code editor for macOS, Linux and Windows. It uses the Model Context Protocol to connect to MCP servers, and currently supports their tools and prompts.
Desktop app