# Gearlist [Health: Active]

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**Repository:** https://gearlist.build/mcp  
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**Directory Page:** https://allmcps.com/mcp/gearlist

## Description
Gearlist is a free, source-checked directory of AI agent tools, MCP servers and skills. Its remote MCP server searches the list, returns each entry's access notes (keys, costs and what data leaves your machine) and finds entries that match a job you describe. Read-only, no sign-in needed.

## Tools
Capabilities this server exposes over MCP:

- **search_gear** — Search the Gearlist catalog of source-checked AI agent tools, MCP servers and skills. Matches words in the name, category, description, audience and access notes, best match first. Each result includes its access notes, which you should show the human. Entries are documentation-checked only, not installed or audited.
- **get_gear** — Get one Gearlist entry by its id, as returned by search_gear, with what was checked and when. Entries are documentation-checked only. Nothing was installed or audited.
- **list_categories** — List the Gearlist categories with the number of entries in each.
- **list_skills** — List the agent skills published in the Gearlist repository, with the command that installs each one. Ask the human before running any install command.
- **recommend_stack** — Find a short set of Gearlist entries whose own text shares the most words with a job you describe, spread across groups, quoting where each match appears. Matches are on words, so check each entry suits the job before suggesting it.

## Claude Desktop Quick Installation
Remote MCP endpoint (confidence: medium). Install path inferred — verify against the README before running it. Add as a URL/SSE server in your client:

```json
"mcpServers": {
  "gearlist": {
    "url": "https://gearlist.build/mcp"
  }
}
```

## Documentation

## What Gearlist does

Gearlist gives MCP-compatible agents a searchable view of a directory covering AI agent tools, MCP servers, and agent skills. The catalog is source-checked at the documentation level: entries are checked against their published information, but they are not installed or audited by Gearlist.

The directory is particularly useful for evaluating access requirements before adopting a tool. Search results include notes about required keys, costs, and the data that may leave the user's machine. Individual entries also identify what was checked and when.

Gearlist is read-only. It does not install tools, modify catalog entries, or require an account to use its remote MCP server.

## How it works

An MCP client sends requests to Gearlist's remote server, which searches or reads catalog data and returns structured results. `search_gear` matches terms across an entry's name, category, description, intended audience, and access notes, then orders results by match quality. Each returned entry includes its access notes, which should be shown to the human making the decision.

`recommend_stack` takes a natural-language description of a job and finds a short set of entries whose text shares the most words with that description. It spreads results across groups and quotes where each match occurs. Because the matching is word-based, recommendations still need to be checked for suitability.

The catalog can also be explored by category or by skill. Skill results include the command associated with installing each skill; the human should approve before an agent runs any such command.

## Setup and configuration

Use Gearlist as a remote MCP server from an MCP-compatible client. No sign-in is needed, and the service is read-only.

Once connected, an agent can call the catalog tools directly. Installing a skill listed by `list_skills` is a separate action and requires human confirmation before execution.

## Tools and capabilities

- **`search_gear`** searches source-checked tools, MCP servers, and skills by text across several catalog fields. Results are ordered by match and include access notes.
- **`get_gear`** retrieves one entry by the ID returned from `search_gear`, including the checks performed and their date.
- **`list_categories`** returns Gearlist's categories and the number of entries in each.
- **`list_skills`** lists published agent skills and the command used to install each one.
- **`recommend_stack`** proposes a short, cross-group set of entries for a described job and quotes the matching text.

The catalog's checks are documentation checks only. They do not establish that an entry was installed, tested, or independently audited.

_Full upstream README: https://allmcps.com/mcp/gearlist/readme_