# Mirage (AgentVFS) vs Filesystem (MCP reference server) (slim)

> Mirage scores 65.3 (B) to Filesystem's 59.2 (C) for fs local. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Mirage (AgentVFS) scores 65.3 (B) on agent readiness against Filesystem (MCP reference server)'s 59.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Filesystem (MCP reference server) leads on transparency & trust. Both do fs local.

- Mirage (AgentVFS): B 65.3, rank #363 of 1197 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentvfs.min.md
- Filesystem (MCP reference server): C 59.2, rank #625 of 1197 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/filesystem-reference-server.min.md
- Mirage (AgentVFS), good for An agent that should reach several stores and services (S3, Drive, Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Notion, Postgres, Redis) through one shell with ls, grep and jq instead of one MCP server per service. Ahead on Reliability, 63 against 54; Agent ergonomics, 79 against 70; Security & auth, 57 against 39; Maintenance & community, 88 against 60. Also Free to start without a card.
- Filesystem (MCP reference server), good for Giving a local agent scoped read and write access to a project folder with host-side gating of writes through annotations. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 73 against 42.

| Category | Mirage (AgentVFS) | Filesystem (MCP reference server) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 63 | 54 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 68 | 68 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 79 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 39 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 88 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 42 | 73 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Mirage (AgentVFS) | Filesystem (MCP reference server) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | SDK + MCP | MCP server |
| Vendor | Strukto.AI | MCP project (reference servers) |
| Transports | stdio, HTTP | stdio |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT and Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 7 | 14 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-20 | 2026-08-31 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2021-09-08 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2023-03-15 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 3.7k stars, 24k npm/wk, 1.9k PyPI/wk | 90k stars, 647k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (2) |