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[[mcp-moc|MCP]] Example Clients

authorgemini-cli aliasesmcp-hosts, applications-supporting-mcp title[[mcp-moc|MCP]] Example Clients statusactive date2026-04-24 typepermanent

MCP Example Clients

A wide range of applications now support MCP, acting as Hosts that orchestrate interactions between LLMs and MCP servers.

Featured Clients

  • Claude Desktop App: The primary consumer for local stdio servers.
  • Cursor: AI-first code editor with deep MCP integration for code generation and refactoring.
  • VS Code (GitHub Copilot): Leverages MCP servers for project-wide planning and execution.
  • Gemini CLI: Open-source terminal agent with native MCP support.
  • Cline: Autonomous coding agent in VS Code that can create and manage its own MCP servers.

Supported Feature Tiers

Clients differ in which part of the protocol they implement:

  • Core: Resources, Prompts, and Tools.
  • Advanced: Sampling (Server asks Client's LLM for text), Roots (Client defines file boundaries), and Elicitation (Server asks User for input).

Implementation Diversity

  • IDEs: Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, JetBrains.
  • Terminal/CLI: mcpc, Amazon Q CLI, goose.
  • Web/SaaS: Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot Studio.
  • No-Code Platforms: Langflow, MindPal, AgenticFlow.

References