Awesome MCP Best Practices

Example Use Cases

• 1

  Implement MCP Servers with consistent and discoverable tool naming conventions.

• 2

  Guidance on providing rich server instructions and abstracting server capabilities.

• 3

  Best practices on deploying MCP Servers securely and efficiently using Docker.

Description

This repository provides opinionated guidelines and standards for naming, describing, and implementing MCP Server tools, defining server instructions, architecture recommendations, deployment strategies, security practices, and performance optimizations. It aims to help developers build robust, discoverable, and efficient MCP Servers that integrate well with MCP Clients. The best practices include tool naming conventions, rich server instructions, avoiding 1:1 API mappings, Docker deployment, and securing dependencies.