mcp-go
Go implementation of the Model Context Protocol. Enables seamless integration between LLMs and external data and tools. 8,690 GitHub stars and 58 commits on main in the last 30 days.
“Go implementation of the Model Context Protocol. Enables seamless integration between LLMs and external data and tools. 8,690 stars and 58 commits on main in the last 30 days.”
INSTALL THIS SERVER
{
"mcpServers": {
"my-go-mcp-server": {
"command": "/path/to/my-go-mcp-server",
"args": [
"serve",
"--stdio"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"my-go-mcp-server": {
"command": "/path/to/my-go-mcp-server",
"args": [
"serve",
"--stdio"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"my-go-mcp-server": {
"command": "/path/to/my-go-mcp-server",
"args": [
"serve",
"--stdio"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"my-go-mcp-server": {
"command": "/path/to/my-go-mcp-server",
"args": [
"serve",
"--stdio"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"my-go-mcp-server": {
"command": "/path/to/my-go-mcp-server",
"args": [
"serve",
"--stdio"
]
}
}
}
5 TOOLS AVAILABLE
OUR ASSESSMENT
- 8,690 GitHub stars. Top Go MCP framework.
- 58 commits on main in the last 30 days.
- MIT license.
- Single-binary deployment.
- Supports all three MCP transports.
- Predates the official Go SDK; some interfaces may converge or diverge.
- Smaller community than Python or TypeScript ecosystems.
- Community-maintained; no commercial vendor backing.
No authentication at the framework level. Servers built with mcp-go must add authentication for production deployments; Go middleware patterns work well for this.
Go developers building MCP servers; cloud-native teams that prefer single-binary deployments; Kubernetes operators wrapping internal APIs as MCPs without a Python runtime.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
ADOPTION METRICS
// Reading this8,690 stars on mark3labs/mcp-go. 58 commits on main in the last 30 days.
// Reading thisPairs with FastMCP (Python), the MCP Spec, MCP Inspector, MCP Registry as the language-and-tooling layer.
SOURCES & VERIFICATION
We don't take any single directory's word for it. Before scoring, we cross-reference 4 public MCP sources, install the server ourselves against the clients we cover, and record when we last re-verified.
The same server, 4 different lenses. We reconcile these signals into our editorial score, which is why our number sometimes diverges from a directory-aggregate star count.
| Source | Their rating | Their star count | Their downloads | Last synced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationSwitch This page | 4.6editorial | 8,690 | — | MAY 12, 2026 |
| PulseMCP | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 12, 2026 |
| MCP.so | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 12, 2026 |
| Glama | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 12, 2026 |
| Smithery | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 12, 2026 |
// Counts are directory-reported; we don't adjust them. Discrepancies usually come from different snapshot times or star-caching.
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