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punkpeye's awesome-remote-mcp-servers catalogs hosted MCP endpoints across 40 categories, hits 622 stars in 24 days
An awesome list of remote MCP servers, the hosted kind that an agent reaches by URL and OAuth rather than installing a local process, picked up 622 GitHub stars and 857 forks since launching on 8 September.
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Why it mattersA team wiring agents to third-party systems can read one directory for the hosted MCP endpoint, OAuth flow and category of hundreds of services instead of searching each vendor site and discovering they do not run one.
A team wiring an agent to a third-party system today has two paths, and the one with less setup is the one that keeps winning. awesome-remote-mcp-servers, maintained by punkpeye on GitHub, has collected 622 stars and 857 forks since it was created on 8 September 2026 and is a running catalogue of the hosted MCP endpoints that an agent can reach by URL rather than install locally.
The repository description reads "A collection of remote MCP servers". The homepage field points at glama.ai/mcp/connectors, so the GitHub list and that catalogue share the same body of work. The list is MIT licensed and currently carries 421 open issues, which on an awesome list usually tracks the queue of new submissions.
What a remote MCP server is, in the list's own words
The project defines a remote MCP server as "an MCP server someone else operates for you. Instead of installing a package and spawning a local process over stdio, you point your client at a URL and authenticate, usually with OAuth." That one sentence is the whole reason to prefer a remote server where a vendor runs one: a local MCP server has to be installed on every machine that calls it, and a remote one is a URL in an agent configuration, with the vendor keeping the integration current.
The list is organised into categories and the README names more than 40 of them: aggregators like Zapier and mcp.market, cloud platforms including Vercel, Netlify and Heroku, finance, CRM, databases, developer tools, e-commerce, communication, content management, payments, project management, search, security, social media, support, translation, travel, version control, and workplace.
What the fork count is telling you
857 forks against 622 stars is unusual on a repository of this age. On an awesome list the pattern is almost always a contribution workflow, where a would-be submitter forks the list to add a line, which is reinforced by the 421 open issues the repo lists. The reader does not fork an awesome list to use it; a fork count that exceeds the star count is a signal that the list is attracting entries, not that it has 857 users.
The reason to read it this morning is practical. A team wiring an agent to the vendor it just signed with can check the catalogue for an endpoint before writing a client. If the entry exists, the agent config is a URL and an OAuth flow. If it does not, the alternatives are the local MCP server from the vendor, the one somebody else wrote, or writing one. The catalogue does not QA any of its entries: the project is a list, and the authority on whether a specific endpoint is production ready is the vendor's own documentation.
Source
- Primary source: punkpeye/awesome-remote-mcp-servers on GitHub
- Related: the Glama MCP connectors catalogue, the project's listed homepage
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