teardown · Flavio Copes
22 MCP servers, 300+ tools, two used daily
22 MCP servers and 300+ tools connected. Two used daily.
01
The setup
Flavio Copes counted 22 MCP servers in Cursor: 10 in ~/.cursor/mcp.json and 12 via 8 plugins, adding up to more than 300 tools. He uses Astro docs and Cloudflare docs daily. Context7, Playwright, X, Paddle (read-only) and Convex each do one job. He built his own cloudflare-domains MCP with a $20 cap and an approval form.
02
What's idle
The GitHub MCP is rarely used because the gh CLI wins. The non-docs Cloudflare MCPs go unused because wrangler does the same. Resend, Railway, Supabase, Replit, tldraw, Dodo, Stitch and Polar sit idle. In his words: "Half of this list should go".
03
Our read
MCPs pile up quietly through plugins. Counting them, and noticing which have a CLI equivalent, is the cheapest audit there is.
04
What to steal
List your MCPs next to what you used this week, and disconnect the idle ones. If you build your own, add a spend cap and an approval step.
Facts from https://flaviocopes.com/mcp-servers-i-use/ (2026-09-28). "Our read" is Agent Setups' analysis, not the author's words.
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