What is a #read-only MCP server?
An MCP server tagged #read-only implements the Model Context Protocol so AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, and VS Code can access read-only-related tools, data, or APIs.
Every MCP server and client below is tagged #read-only — install one to give Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or any other MCP-compatible client access to read-only tools.
modelcontextprotocol
Model Context Protocol Servers
EquateItAu
MCP server for ClassQuill — read-only access to tutoring-business data (sessions, students, tutors, invoices, payments, reports) for Claude, Codex, Cursor & more.
ShortsMonkey
Find YouTube outliers, daily viral Shorts, and analyze video performance.
patrickdappollonio
mcp-kubernetes-ro is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server providing read-only access to Kubernetes clusters for AI assistants. It enables AI models to list resources, get resource details, retrieve pod logs, discover API resources, and perform base64 encoding/decoding operations
mo-sharif
Hosted ResolveMesh compatibility MCP server - read-only, source-backed compatibility lookups for AI agents
archimedes-market
Curated by Archimedes Market with a verified Trust Report (security, quality, license, complexity).
j0hanz
Read-only MCP server for secure filesystem exploration, searching, and analysis
Sarg338
A read-only Model Context Protocol server for Valve's public Steam Web API and storefront. Ask about your friends and games, playtime and achievements, as well as get game suggestions based on your library. Plus account-independent things like sales, reviews, live player counts,
Lawstronaut-FZCO
Access millions of official legal and regulatory source documents from 155+ jurisdictions via MCP. Lawstronaut supports AI agents with structured legal research, legal data, laws, regulations, cases, guidance, official s
abhinavnatarajan
MCP server for reading SQLite databases
erekola
The public read-only MCP server for turva.dev, live at mcp.turva.dev/mcp. Published in the official MCP registry as dev.turva/turva-mcp.
agentic-eng
3xpr1ment
Read-only MCP server that lets your coding agent see the sibling repositories next to the one it's working in overview, search, read, zero write tools. Security by architecture: path traversal, symlink escapes and secret files are blocked, proven by tests.
trackingtime
Official MCP server for TrackingTime (trackingtime.co). Query time entries, projects, tasks, customers, and team productivity data from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI client. Read-only. Works with SSE and HTTP transports.
JosueM1109
Self-hosted, read-only MCP server for personal finance. Connect your banks, credit cards, loans, and brokerage accounts via Plaid and query them from Claude Code in plain English — no third-party aggregator involved.
AnchorRegistry
AnchorRegistry is the open provenance layer for the agentic economy. Every digital artifact — code, research, data, models, media, agents, transactions — can be anchored to Base L2 with a permanent, machine-resolvable identifier (an AR-ID). When an AI assistant encounters an SPDX
jonchun
ShellGuard is an MCP server that lets LLM agents securely SSH into remote Linux hosts with read-only shell access. Instead of copy-pasting terminal output, your AI can run safe diagnostics, inspect logs, query systems, and troubleshoot production, staging, or dev environments aut
evanatpizzarobot
Read-only access to VR.org's live VR, AR, and XR coverage. Ten tools let an agent search the latest VR, AR, and XR news, see trending topics, read VR.org's original editorial, compare headsets, pull current deals and prices, and fetch the top game and app lists. No API keys, no w
archimedes-market
Curated by Archimedes Market. AWS Cost Explorer + Anomaly Detection exposed as MCP tools. Surface unusual spend by service, account, or tag. Pull cost breakdowns, forecasts, savings recommendations. Read-only IAM — refuses to start if the role can modify resources. → archimedes.m
ChunSam
Read-only MCP server for Kiwoom Securities (Korean brokerage): 28 tools for market data (quotes, charts, rankings, themes, short selling, investor flows) and account inquiry (balance, holdings, transactions), plus an opt
unitedideas
Audit public websites and AI crawler policies from any MCP client—remote, read-only, no auth.
slotix
Read-only MCP server for your databases. Lets AI assistants inspect schemas, preview data, run read-only SQL, and join across PostgreSQL, MySQL, files (CSV/JSONL/Parquet), and S3 - 26 read-only tools. SELECT-only by server-side filter: the AI can look and explain, never write.
Common questions about MCP servers and clients tagged #read-only
An MCP server tagged #read-only implements the Model Context Protocol so AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, and VS Code can access read-only-related tools, data, or APIs.
mcp.so currently lists 22 MCP servers and clients tagged #read-only.
Open any server below and copy its install snippet into Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client's configuration — remote servers need no separate download.