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The PickAPlugin MCP server

Ask your agent “find me a plugin for X” and it searches the PickAPlugin catalog: about 550 ChatGPT, Codex and Claude plugins and MCP servers, sorted into 12 categories. It's a remote MCP server, so there's nothing to install or run.

Endpoint: https://pickaplugin.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no auth)

Tools

• search_plugins(query, category?, limit?): keyword search across names, descriptions, makers and categories.
• get_plugin(slug): full details for one listing, including its install command when we have one.
• list_categories(): every category with its plugin count.
• top_plugins(category?, limit?): our editor's picks first, then the most-starred maintained projects.

Every result has the name, a one-line summary, the category, the repo and homepage links, and its pickaplugin.com/p/<slug> page. Paid featured listings show up first and are always labelled "featured": true, so your agent can tell an ad from a pick.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http pickaplugin https://pickaplugin.com/mcp

Claude Desktop / claude.ai

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, name it PickAPlugin and paste https://pickaplugin.com/mcp. Or, on older versions of Claude Desktop, add this to claude_desktop_config.json (needs Node):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pickaplugin": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://pickaplugin.com/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Cursor

Add to Cursor or put this in ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pickaplugin": {
      "url": "https://pickaplugin.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Codex

codex mcp add pickaplugin --url https://pickaplugin.com/mcp

Or in ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.pickaplugin]
url = "https://pickaplugin.com/mcp"

There's also a ready-made Codex plugin (.codex-plugin/plugin.json plus .mcp.json) in our repo.

VS Code (GitHub Copilot)

Add to VS Code or run:

code --add-mcp '{"name":"pickaplugin","type":"http","url":"https://pickaplugin.com/mcp"}'

Or add it to .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "pickaplugin": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://pickaplugin.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

ChatGPT

With developer mode on: Settings → Apps & Connectors → Create, paste https://pickaplugin.com/mcp and pick “No authentication”.

Try it with curl

curl -s https://pickaplugin.com/mcp \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' -H 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_plugins","arguments":{"query":"memory","limit":3}}}'

Good to know

• It's read-only and stores nothing about your queries beyond normal server logs.
• The catalog updates daily. Descriptions are each project's own. We don't test or audit plugins, so check a project before you install it.
• Please keep it reasonable: up to 25 results per call. Need the whole catalog? It's at /catalog.json.
• Your plugin missing? Submit it free, then add the badge.