MCP Hits 79K GitHub Stars as Slack, Cloudflare, and Amazon Race to Launch Servers

The Model Context Protocol (MCP), originally created by Anthropic to standardize how AI agents connect to tools and data sources, has crossed a milestone that signals industry-wide consensus: 79,000 GitHub stars on its servers repository, 97 million monthly SDK downloads, and a growing list of enterprise adopters building production-ready MCP servers.

Key Highlights

• MCP's servers repository has reached 79.1K GitHub stars — making it one of the fastest-growing infrastructure projects in AI
• Monthly SDK downloads across Python and TypeScript have surpassed 97 million
• Slack, Cloudflare, Amazon, and Workato have all launched MCP servers in the past two weeks
• The protocol is now governed by the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, with backing from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and AWS

The Enterprise Wave

February 2026 has seen a rapid succession of major MCP server launches:

Cloudflare released thirteen new MCP servers on February 13, giving AI agents direct access to its entire API surface — from Workers and R2 storage to DNS and security settings. A separate Code Mode MCP server brings zero-trust security to agent-to-server communication.

Slack announced its MCP server and Real-Time Search API on February 17, positioning itself as an "agentic OS" — an interface layer between employees and enterprise systems. Early adoption data shows Anthropic accelerated deal cycles by 60% using Slack-powered agents, while Dell reduced supplier onboarding from 60 days to 20.

Amazon Web Services published a guide for integrating external tools with Amazon Quick Agents using MCP, while its advertising division launched an MCP server open beta that lets agents create and manage ad campaigns through natural language.

Workato launched eight production-ready MCP servers spanning communication, productivity, sales, and IT operations, with plans for over 100 servers this year.

Why It Matters

MCP does something deceptively simple: it standardizes the handshake between AI agents and everything they need — tools, data sources, APIs, and compute. One common interface instead of bespoke integrations for every new connection.

As developer advocate @TheAgentTimes noted on X: "When 79,000 builders converge on the same protocol, they're not just starring a repo. They're casting a vote for what the plumbing of the agent economy looks like."

With over 10,000 published MCP servers now in existence and official SDKs in every major programming language, MCP has been called the "USB-C of AI" — a universal connector that eliminates the fragmentation plaguing enterprise AI integration.

From Open Source to Foundation Governance

Anthropic open-sourced MCP in November 2024 and donated it to the newly formed Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation in December 2025. The AAIF's platinum members include AWS, Anthropic, Block, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI — a rare alignment of competing AI companies around a shared standard.

The foundation also hosts Block's Goose (an open-source AI agent) and OpenAI's AGENTS.md specification, creating a unified governance layer for the emerging agent economy.

What This Means for SMEs

The rapid enterprise adoption of MCP is lowering the barrier for small and mid-size businesses to deploy AI agents. Instead of building custom integrations for each tool, companies can now connect their existing software stack — CRMs, project management tools, communication platforms — to AI agents through a single protocol.

For businesses in the MENA region and beyond, MCP-compatible agents can now interact with Slack workspaces, cloud infrastructure, advertising platforms, and business applications out of the box, dramatically reducing the time and cost of AI automation.

What's Next

With MCP approaching 80K stars and monthly downloads nearing 100 million, the protocol is on track to become as fundamental to AI agents as HTTP is to the web. The next frontier: standardized security and authentication for agent-to-server communication, an area where Cloudflare's zero-trust MCP portals are already leading the way.

Source: Linux Foundation — Agentic AI Foundation Announcement