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MCP

Peak · emerged November 2024 · high May 2026 · +2% on the month before · 172 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.

Index 0 to 100, monthly
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Signals

AdoptionHacker News stories, last 12 months2,805 stories, +42% on the 12 months before
AdoptionarXiv papers, last 12 months450 papers, +181% on the 12 months before
DeclineWikipedia views, October 202647,600, -10% on a year beforeAdoptionProduct releases naming it624 since Feb 19, 2026AdoptionGitHub repositories30,575AdoptionConferences about it6
SignalReads as
Hacker News stories, last 12 months2,805 stories, +42% on the 12 months beforeAdoption
arXiv papers, last 12 months450 papers, +181% on the 12 months beforeAdoption
Wikipedia views, October 202647,600, -10% on a year beforeDecline
Product releases naming it624 since Feb 19, 2026Adoption
GitHub repositories30,575Adoption
Conferences about it6Adoption

Trending terms

TermPeak
MCPModel Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI models to tools and data.22 days, last Nov 5 4 days ago34

Companies

Releases

624 releases since Feb 19, 2026
Name
October 2026Braintrust · Oct 30, 2026 10 days ago
October 2026Searchable · Oct 29, 2026 11 days ago
Remote MCP server for Web APIOxylabs · Oct 29, 2026 11 days ago
Connect your own MCP servers to Monte Carlo's agentsMonte Carlo · Oct 29, 2026 11 days ago
October 2026Searchable · Oct 28, 2026 12 days ago
Plugin Item View and User-only SkillsCognition · Oct 28, 2026 12 days ago
Access, Cloudflare One - Filter MCP tool-call analytics by response statusCloudflare · Oct 28, 2026 12 days ago
Upcoming end of life for the Genie One MCP Beta endpointDatabricks · Oct 28, 2026 12 days ago

Papers

Name
MCP-Atlas: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Tool-Use Competency with Real MCP ServersScale AI · Jan 31, 2026 9 months ago
TOUCAN: Synthesizing 1.5M Tool-Agentic Data from Real-World MCP EnvironmentsIBM · Oct 1, 2025 1 year ago
MCP-Universe: Benchmarking Large Language Models with Real-World Model Context Protocol ServersSalesforce · Aug 20, 2025 1 year ago

GitHub projects

30,575 repositories
NameStars
modelcontextprotocol/serversModel Context Protocol Servers · Nov 19, 2024 1 year ago90,955
modelcontextprotocol/python-sdkThe official Python SDK for Model Context Protocol servers and clients · Sep 24, 2024 2 years ago24,452
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 ago17,382
modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdkThe official TypeScript SDK for Model Context Protocol servers and clients · Sep 24, 2024 2 years ago13,501
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 ago12,458
tadata-org/fastapi_mcpExpose your FastAPI endpoints as Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, with Auth! · Mar 8, 2025 1 year ago12,013

Partnerships

Name
MongoDB, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Cognition: Atlas in coding agentsAug 13, 2026 2 months ago
Elastic and OpenAI: OpenAI models with ElasticsearchJul 30, 2026 3 months ago
Cloudflare and Coinbase: the x402 FoundationSep 23, 2025 1 year ago

Conferences

6 conferences
Name
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2027London, United Kingdom · Sep 15, 2027 in 10 months
AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2027San Francisco, SF Bay Area, CA · Apr 28, 2027 in 5 months
Agentics Day: MCP + Agents North America 2026Salt Lake City, UT · Nov 9, 2026 today
AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026San Jose, SF Bay Area, CA · Oct 22, 2026 2 weeks ago
MCP Dev Summit Toronto 2026Toronto, Canada · Oct 5, 2026 5 weeks ago
MCP Community Connect Bengaluru 2026Bengaluru, India · Sep 26, 2026 6 weeks ago
MovementStage
AI agentsModels that plan and act in steps, calling tools and other services until a task is done.Rising
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

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

Sources: Curve: Hacker News story titles, Wikipedia pageviews and arXiv papers by month, refreshed Nov 1, 2026. Related entities from the other Glyph Ibis sources' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.