Anymd vs Phpgraph — MCP Server Comparison | AllMCPs
Side-by-Side Model Context Protocol Comparison
Anymd vs Phpgraph
In-depth architectural comparison of the Anymd and Phpgraph MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.
At a Glance & Executive Verdict
Anymd
Developer Tools · Local stdio
Quality: 69/100 (Great) | Auth: No auth required
Phpgraph
Developer Tools · Local stdio
Quality: 47/100 (Fair) | Auth: No auth required
Verdict Summary: Choose Anymd if you need specialized Developer Tools tools running via a local process. Choose Phpgraph if your workspace requires Developer Tools integration with local subprocess execution. Both servers can be configured concurrently in your client's mcpServers manifest.
Which MCP Server Should You Choose?
Choose Anymd when:
You need dedicated capabilities in the Developer Tools domain.
You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
Document and media evidence when Markdown is not enough. video_timeline (bounded scene/cue timeline) and render_frame (actual decoded frames), and cite_check (quote/location support, not semantic truth), are anymd Pro; PDF operations: inspect (page facts, metadata), render_page (PNG images), extract_regions (crop bounding boxes), ocr_pages / analyze_regions (configured OCR or vision provider), structure (JSON with document map, elements, geometry; profile quality|research adds trust and accessibility reports), compare (page-level diff of sources[0] vs sources[1]).
outline
Return a document heading tree with stable node ids, title paths, page/slide/chapter ranges and Markdown byte ranges. PDF bookmarks or detected headings, Word headings, PowerPoint slides, EPUB chapters and headings, HTML and Markdown. format json (default) or tree. Pass a node id to read to fetch that section.
read
Read any document as clean Markdown: PDF, Word (DOCX), PowerPoint (PPTX), Excel (XLSX/XLS/ODS), CSV, EPUB, HTML or a web URL, Markdown/text, images (metadata + OCR), audio/video (metadata, chapters, subtitles). Pages/slides/sheets carry <!-- page N --> style markers for citation. Long documents stop at max_tokens (default 20000) and end with a cursor to continue; choose pages with pages: "1-5,8". A directory returns its readable files.
Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations
Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).
Anymd is categorized under Developer Tools and uses a local stdio subprocess. In contrast, Phpgraph belongs to Developer Tools using local stdio subprocess. Select Anymd when you need capabilities focused on developer tools and Phpgraph when you require tools for developer tools.
Search documents for text: one file, many files, whole directories (recursive, .gitignore aware), or URLs, across every format read supports. Returns each hit as file + page/slide/sheet + a snippet with the match in bold. mode auto (default) finds the exact phrase and falls back to BM25-ranked passages when there is none; literal or ranked force one. Narrow directories with glob, e.g. "*.pdf".
Phpgraph Tools (8)
overview
Start here: Composer stack, namespace tree with layers, bounded contexts, layer-rule violations, messages, HTTP routes (each with method, path, controller and file up to 30, else grouped by path prefix), services, and what the graph cannot see.
query_graph
Find the code about a topic when you do not know the class names, by the words of their names (validated finds `Validator`), with the classes of the feature around the ones it names. A question about routes (*"mooc courses routes"*, *"GET /courses"*) returns the matching routes and their controller…
outline
Before explaining a feature: its structural outline, enough to read only the few files with non-obvious logic. The classes it is made of, by namespace and layer, with the first sentence of their docblock, their public signatures, constants and enum cases; the interfaces and base classes around it w…
get_node
Read one class, method, route or channel with all its relations; tests using it are counted by module.
get_neighbors
See what uses a node (`in`) or what it depends on (`out`).
impact_of
Before a change: every class that depends on a class or method, nearest first, with the lines of the calls; callers through the interface it implements; code depending on the state it writes; the routes reaching it, with each chain; and the tests to run, found through test helpers. It flags the cla…