What is the best MCP servers, plugins and skill for a software engineer?

By tashan's measured score the highest-ranked for this work are Context7, Chrome DevTools, MongoDB, Exa, MCP Appium - Mobile Development and Automation Server. The score combines upkeep and freshness, gated by real adoption; every input is public and linked to its source.

Are these audited for security?

Every capability tashan measures is checked against the OSV advisory database at the version you would install today, for install-time scripts, for build provenance, and for the permission surface its declared dependencies reach. The existence of a finding is always free to see. The audit reads public evidence only and never executes anything, so an empty result means nothing was declared, never that nothing is possible.

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MCP servers, plugins & skills for software engineer, ranked

Q: What work does this cover?

A software engineer here is the union of the tasks that job performs — application development, browser automation, code review, test automation, web scraping, database access — so a capability appears if it is measured against any of them. 1030 capabilities qualify today.

tashan measures 1030 capabilities against the work a software engineer actually does: application development, browser automation, code review, test automation, web scraping, database access. Ranked on public evidence alone: upkeep, freshness and real adoption. How we measure ›

The stack for this job

One pick per task, taken from the ranking below. Best fit first, then how well it documents itself, then the tashan score.

Application developmentReact Native AI DevTools71 Browser automationChrome DevTools92 Code reviewSem70 Test automationMCP Appium - Mobile Development and Automation Server79 Web scrapingExa83 Database accessMongoDB84

#	Capability	tashan	Evidence	Health
1	Context7 primary npm deep	98	1.1m/wk	active
2	Chrome DevTools primary npm ✓ Google deep	92	3.3m/wk	active
3	MongoDB primary npm deep	84	56k/wk	active
4	Exa primary npm deep	83	20k/wk	active
5	MCP Appium - Mobile Development and Automation Server primary npm deep	79	8k/wk	active
6	Trusty Squire primary npm deep	76	3k/wk	active
7	React Native AI DevTools primary npm deep	71	2k/wk	active
8	Cocoindex Code primary plugin deep	71	3k ★	active
9	Sem primary npm deep	70	3k/wk	active
10	Safety Net primary plugin deep	70	1k ★	active
11	Ios Simulator primary npm deep	69	5k/wk	active
12	Execbro primary npm deep	69	2k/wk	active
13	Firecrawl · firecrawl primary plugin deep	68	542 ★	active
14	Unicli primary plugin deep	65	248 ★	active
15	Reolink CLI primary plugin deep	61	80 ★	active
16	Codedna primary plugin deep	60	143 ★	active
17	Weavatrix primary npm deep	59	358/wk	active
18	Growthbook · growthbook primary plugin deep	58	18 ★	active
19	Superpowers Chrome primary plugin deep	58	335 ★	active
20	Postiz primary plugin deep	58	381 ★	active
21	DuckDB Skills primary plugin deep	58	523 ★	active
22	Roundtable primary plugin deep	57	30 ★	active
23	Adcp Client primary plugin deep	57	18 ★	active
24	Noosphere primary plugin deep	57	18 ★	active
25	Asc · pofky primary npm deep	55	177/wk	active
26	GitHub Autopilot primary plugin deep	55	23 ★	active
27	Scandit SDK primary plugin deep	53	15 ★	active
28	Imessage primary plugin deep	53	24 ★	active
29	Cockroachdb primary plugin deep	53	3 ★	active
30	Openweb primary plugin deep	52	35 ★	active
31	Suiper primary plugin deep	51	12 ★	active
32	Haytham primary plugin deep	51	13 ★	active
33	Specrails primary plugin deep	50	9 ★	active
34	Summer primary plugin deep	50	32 ★	active
35	Specclaw primary plugin deep	50	10 ★	active
36	Tray API primary plugin deep	49	13 ★	active
37	Archy primary plugin deep	49	6 ★	active
38	Minecraft Java primary plugin deep	48	5 ★	active
39	Gooseworks primary plugin deep	48	6 ★	active
40	Excalidraw Skill primary plugin deep	47	182 ★	active
41	Claude Xcindex primary plugin deep	46	3 ★	active
42	Temper primary plugin deep	46	13 ★	active
43	Hyperflow primary plugin deep	46	3 ★	active
44	Nanostack primary plugin deep	45	204 ★	active
45	Zoom Plugin primary plugin deep	43	5 ★	active
46	Dominion Flow primary plugin deep	42	77 ★	active
47	Local CI primary plugin deep	41	3 ★	active
48	Supabase primary npm solid	98	112k/wk	active
49	Playwright primary npm ✓ Microsoft solid	85	4.6m/wk	active
50	Desktop Commander primary npm solid	83	39k/wk	active
51	Superpowers primary plugin solid	81	269k ★	active
52	Postman primary npm solid	81	13k/wk	active
53	Dbhub primary npm solid	80	12k/wk	active
54	Git primary pkg solid	80	7k/wk	active
55	Smartbear primary npm solid	79	10k/wk	active
56	GitLab primary npm solid	79	82k/wk	active
57	Ponytail primary plugin solid	78	90k ★	active
58	Mattpocock Skills primary plugin solid	78	191k ★	active
59	N8n primary npm solid	77	170k/wk	active
60	Browser Harness primary plugin solid	76	16k ★	active
61	Understand Anything primary plugin solid	76	76k ★	active
62	Expo primary plugin solid	75	2k ★	active
63	Mobile primary npm solid	75	16k/wk	active
64	Nvidia Skills primary plugin solid	74	3k ★	active
65	Swiftui Expert primary plugin solid	73	3k ★	active
66	XcodeBuildMCP primary npm solid	73	63k/wk	active
67	Yaver primary npm solid	73	5k/wk	active
68	Adr Analysis primary npm solid	73	744/wk	active
69	Whodb primary plugin solid	73	5k ★	active
70	Dart Flutter primary plugin solid	72	3k ★	active
71	GraphQL Enhanced primary npm solid	72	6k/wk	active
72	Memtrace primary npm solid	72	5k/wk	active
73	Claude Harness primary plugin solid	72	3k ★	active
74	AI Devkit primary plugin solid	71	2k ★	active
75	Imqueue primary npm solid	71	2k/wk	active
76	ClickHouse Best Practices primary plugin solid	71	498 ★	active
77	Brooks Lint primary plugin solid	70	1k ★	active
78	Mdk primary npm solid	70	5k/wk	active
79	Chrome DevTools Axi primary npm solid	70	4k/wk	active
80	Outputai primary plugin solid	70	426 ★	active
81	Symforge primary npm solid	69	2k/wk	active
82	Open Computer Use primary npm solid	69	2k/wk	active
83	Codspeed primary plugin solid	69	235 ★	active
84	Unreal Engine Skills For Claude Code primary plugin solid	68	157 ★	active
85	Godot Prompter primary plugin solid	68	485 ★	active
86	Bunqueue primary npm solid	68	3k/wk	active
87	Data Agent Kit Starter Pack primary plugin ✓ Google solid	68	151 ★	active
88	Dataverse · microsoft primary plugin ✓ Microsoft solid	68	184 ★	active
89	Geosql primary plugin solid	68	558 ★	active
90	Apollo Skills primary plugin solid	67	100 ★	active
91	Coderabbit primary plugin solid	67	142 ★	active
92	Code Index primary npm solid	67	898/wk	active
93	Agentforce Adlc primary plugin solid	67	93 ★	active
94	Neon primary plugin solid	66	81 ★	active
95	Sonarqube primary plugin solid	65	98 ★	active
96	Tavily · tavily-ai primary plugin solid	65	433 ★	active
97	Teamcity CLI primary plugin solid	65	119 ★	active
98	Qodo primary plugin solid	64	44 ★	active
99	Sigmap primary npm solid	64	703/wk	active
100	Nimble primary plugin solid	64	50 ★	active
101	Firecrawl · firecrawl primary plugin solid	64	174 ★	active
102	Rn DevTools Hub primary npm solid	64	849/wk	active
103	Gk CLI primary npm solid	64	5k/wk	active
104	Auth0 · auth0 primary plugin solid	63	40 ★	active
105	Quarkus Agent primary plugin solid	63	45 ★	active
106	Workos primary plugin solid	62	43 ★	active
107	Argot primary npm solid	62	708/wk	active
108	Evalview primary plugin solid	62	124 ★	active
109	Twilio Developer Kit primary plugin solid	61	26 ★	active
110	Postman · postman-devrel primary plugin solid	61	34 ★	active
111	Sfmc primary npm solid	61	473/wk	active
112	Extension Dev primary npm solid	61	465/wk	active
113	Mergify primary plugin solid	61	28 ★	active
114	Terminal Driver primary npm solid	61	964/wk	active
115	Crowdstrike Falcon Foundry primary plugin solid	60	22 ★	active
116	Mercadopago primary plugin solid	60	24 ★	active
117	Salesforce Metadata primary npm solid	60	483/wk	active
118	Opentrace Oss primary plugin solid	60	104 ★	active
119	BigQuery Data Analytics primary plugin ✓ Google solid	60	47 ★	active
120	Cloud SQL PostgreSQL primary plugin ✓ Google solid	60	41 ★	active
121	Yapi Plugin primary plugin solid	59	167 ★	active
122	Subtext primary plugin solid	59	64 ★	active
123	Codescene Codehealth primary plugin solid	59	58 ★	active
124	Otito primary npm solid	59	432/wk	active
125	Zyte Web Data primary plugin solid	59	27 ★	active
126	Revolut X primary plugin solid	59	49 ★	active
127	Alloydb primary plugin ✓ Google solid	59	22 ★	active
128	Harness Kit primary plugin solid	58	25 ★	active
129	Docusaurus Plugin primary npm solid	58	3k/wk	active
130	Tricorder primary plugin solid	57	38 ★	active
131	Parallel primary plugin solid	57	62 ★	active
132	Gangsta primary plugin solid	57	67 ★	active
133	Domscribe primary plugin solid	57	179 ★	active
134	Delphi Dev primary plugin solid	56	71 ★	active
135	Insforge primary plugin solid	56	33 ★	active
136	Pdca Framework primary plugin solid	56	41 ★	active
137	Tap primary npm solid	56	282/wk	active
138	Fixmap primary npm solid	56	177/wk	active
139	Android Remote Control primary plugin solid	55	171 ★	active
140	Draft primary plugin solid	55	39 ★	active
141	Vibe Replay primary plugin solid	55	33 ★	active
142	Cloud SQL MySQL primary plugin ✓ Google solid	55	11 ★	active
143	Helius primary plugin solid	54	24 ★	active
144	Laravel API Tool Kit primary plugin solid	54	532 ★	active
145	Launchdarkly · launchdarkly primary plugin solid	54	20 ★	active
146	Claude Ops primary plugin solid	54	20 ★	active
147	Openhop primary plugin solid	54	40 ★	active
148	Mirrord Agent Skills primary plugin solid	54	21 ★	active
149	Confidence primary plugin solid	53	7 ★	active
150	Devflow primary plugin solid	53	17 ★	active

Recently changed in Software engineer

898 changes recorded here in the last 45 days, newest and most serious first.

2026-08-05 Yaver — yaver now runs a script when it installs
2026-08-05 Argot — argot now runs a script when it installs
2026-08-05 Shiplight — shiplight now reaches browser, credentials, filesystem, network
2026-08-05 Puppeteer — @modelcontextprotocol/server-puppeteer was marked deprecated on npm

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