A side-by-side look at the Mindvalley Products MCP and Universities MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Mindvalley Products MCP for education work as a local process; choose Universities for education as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
search_universities.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Education | Education |
| Quality signal | 37/100 · Fair | 49/100 · Fair |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | Not declared | Not declared |
| Pricing | Not declared | Not declared |
| Required env vars | None listed | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 0 | 0 |
| Directory activity | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 1 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | Not listed | 1 |
| Full listing | View Mindvalley Products MCP | View Universities |
No tool names declared yet. Check the project README from the listing page.
search_universitiesSearch universities worldwide by name and/or country using the Hipolabs API. Returns name, country, state/province, web pages, and email domains. At least one of name or country must be provided.Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
{
"mcpServers": {
"mindvalley-products-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mindvalley-products-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"universities": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-universities"
]
}
}
}