MCP

Peak · emerged November 2024 · high May 2026 · -2% on the month before · 89 mentions on Trending in 14 days

Model Context Protocol: an open standard for connecting models and agents to tools and data sources. Named by Anthropic: Introducing the Model Context Protocol (Nov 25, 2024). Also called Model Context Protocol, MCP server, MCP servers.

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Signals

Signal	Value	Reads as
Hacker News stories, last 12 months2,684 stories	2,684 stories	Adoption
arXiv papers, last 12 months409 papers	409 papers	Adoption
Wikipedia views, August 202636,086, -32% on a year before	36,086, -32% on a year before	Decline
Product releases naming it322 since Sep 1, 2025	322 since Sep 1, 2025	Adoption
GitHub repositories30,211	30,211	Adoption
Conferences about it4	4	Adoption

Trending terms

Term	Last day	Days	PeakPeak score
MCPDeveloper tool10 days, last Sep 24 yesterday	Sep 24yesterday	10	35

Companies

Name	Mentions
Cloudflare	34
Cognition	30
GitHub	18
Databricks	18
Google Cloud	17
Vercel	14
MotherDuck	11
Figma	9

Releases

322 releases since Sep 1, 2025

Name	Date
Retool CLIRetool · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday	Sep 24, 2026yesterday
Qwen Code Desktop v0.24.5Alibaba · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday	Sep 24, 2026yesterday
Vercel Connect now supports TanStack AIVercel · Sep 24, 2026 yesterday	Sep 24, 2026yesterday
Qwen Code cua-driver-rs v0.20.11Alibaba · Sep 23, 2026 2 days ago	Sep 23, 20262 days ago
Bring-Your-Own OAuth Setup Guides for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace MCPsCognition · Sep 23, 2026 2 days ago	Sep 23, 20262 days ago
Plugin MCPs Appear in Customize → MCPsCognition · Sep 23, 2026 2 days ago	Sep 23, 20262 days ago
Teams MCP Can Read Channel MessagesCognition · Sep 23, 2026 2 days ago	Sep 23, 20262 days ago
Claude Code 2.1.281Anthropic · Sep 23, 2026 2 days ago	Sep 23, 20262 days ago

GitHub projects

30,211 repositories

Name	Created	Stars
modelcontextprotocol/serversModel Context Protocol Servers · Nov 19, 2024 1 year ago	Nov 19, 20241 year ago	90,580
modelcontextprotocol/python-sdkThe official Python SDK for Model Context Protocol servers and clients · Sep 24, 2024 2 years ago	Sep 24, 20242 years ago	24,390
microsoft/mcp-for-beginnersThis open-source curriculum introduces the fundamentals of Model Context Protocol (MCP) through real-world, cross-language examples in .NET, · Apr 4, 2025 1 year ago	Apr 4, 20251 year ago	17,285
modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdkThe official TypeScript SDK for Model Context Protocol servers and clients · Sep 24, 2024 2 years ago	Sep 24, 20242 years ago	13,452
hangwin/mcp-chromeChrome MCP Server is a Chrome extension-based Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes your Chrome browser functionality to AI assis · Jun 9, 2025 1 year ago	Jun 9, 20251 year ago	12,452
tadata-org/fastapi_mcpExpose your FastAPI endpoints as Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, with Auth! · Mar 8, 2025 1 year ago	Mar 8, 20251 year ago	12,007

Conferences

4 conferences

Name	Date
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2027London, United Kingdom · Sep 15, 2027 in 11 months	Sep 15, 2027in 11 months
AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2027San Francisco, SF Bay Area, CA · Apr 28, 2027 in 7 months	Apr 28, 2027in 7 months
AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026San Jose, SF Bay Area, CA · Oct 22, 2026 in 3 weeks	Oct 22, 2026in 3 weeks
MCP Dev Summit Toronto 2026Toronto, Canada · Oct 5, 2026 in 10 days	Oct 5, 2026in 10 days

Movement	Stage
AI agentsModels that plan and act in steps, calling tools and other services until a task is done.	Peak
Agentic codingCoding agents that read a repository, run commands and tests, and change code across files on their own.	Rising
Context engineeringDeciding what goes into a model's context window, and in what order: instructions, retrieved documents, tools and memory.	Plateau

History

Date	What changed
Sep 24, 2026	Tracking started: emerged November 2024, peak, 3 other names recorded

Sources: Curve: Hacker News story titles, Wikipedia pageviews and arXiv papers by month, refreshed Sep 24, 2026. Related entities from the fru.dev sites' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.