# Top MCP Servers: working brief

A one-page brief for choosing top MCP servers. Fill it in before you compare anything.

## The job

- What should the agent do?
- What does it read?
- What may it change or send?
- Who approves it?

## The candidates

| Name | Maker's page | Read on | Address or install | Sign-in | Price |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |

## The first run

- One job, one week, approvals on.
- Budget for the week:
- What a good result looks like:

### Describe the job before connecting anything

Write one sentence per job: what the agent reads, what it may change, and who checks the result. A server that can't do the job is out, however popular it is.

### Compare evidence on the same terms

For each candidate, read the maker's page for the address, the sign-in, the tools and any limits, and note the date you read it. Star counts say little about fit.

### Use a bounded first run

Connect one server, run one job for a week with approvals on, and read the log. Keep it when the calls were right and the cost was what you expected.

From Top MCP Servers, published by Conecto: https://topmcpservers.com/