# Cliff Hall (slim)

> Cliff Hall is reference servers maintainer at Model Context Protocol. Fetch (MCP reference server), Filesystem (MCP reference server), Memory (MCP reference server) and Sequential Thinking (MCP reference server) on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Reference servers maintainer, Model Context Protocol.

- GitHub: https://github.com/cliffhall

## What Cliff builds

- [Fetch (MCP reference server)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fetch-reference-server.md), graded C, 57.6/100, in Web search APIs. Python reference server with a single 'fetch' tool that retrieves a URL and converts HTML to markdown, with pagination (start_index/max_length) and raw mode. Reference servers maintainer, Model Context Protocol, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Filesystem (MCP reference server)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/filesystem-reference-server.md), graded C, 59.4/100, in Databases & files. Reference server for secure local file operations (read, write, edit, search, directory listing) restricted to allowed directories supplied as arguments or via MCP Roots. Reference servers maintainer, Model Context Protocol, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Memory (MCP reference server)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/memory-reference-server.md), graded C, 54.4/100, in Databases & files. Knowledge-graph persistent memory reference server (entities, relations, observations) stored as JSONL at MEMORY_FILE_PATH. Reference servers maintainer, Model Context Protocol, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Sequential Thinking (MCP reference server)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sequential-thinking-reference-server.md), graded B, 62.7/100, in Reasoning scaffolds. Single-tool reference server (`sequentialthinking`) that structures step-by-step reasoning with numbered thoughts, revisions and branches; no external calls. Reference servers maintainer, Model Context Protocol, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [David Soria Parra](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/david-soria-parra/), Co-creator and Lead Maintainer, Model Context Protocol
- [Den Delimarsky](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/den-delimarsky/), Lead Maintainer, Model Context Protocol
- [Jonathan Hefner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jonathan-hefner/), Reference servers maintainer, Model Context Protocol
- [Justin Spahr-Summers](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/justin-spahr-summers/), Co-inventor, Lead Maintainer Emeritus, Model Context Protocol
- [Ola Hungerford](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ola-hungerford/), Reference servers maintainer, Model Context Protocol
- [Shaun Smith](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shaun-smith/), Reference servers maintainer, Model Context Protocol
- [Tadas Antanavicius](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tadas-antanavicius/), Reference servers maintainer, Model Context Protocol

## Questions

### Who is Cliff Hall?

Cliff Hall is reference servers maintainer at Model Context Protocol.

### What does MCP project (reference servers) make?

Anchor Terminal lists Fetch (MCP reference server), Filesystem (MCP reference server), Memory (MCP reference server) and Sequential Thinking (MCP reference server) from MCP project (reference servers).

### How are Cliff's tools graded?

Fetch (MCP reference server) is graded C, 57.6 out of 100; Filesystem (MCP reference server) is graded C, 59.4 out of 100; Memory (MCP reference server) is graded C, 54.4 out of 100; Sequential Thinking (MCP reference server) is graded B, 62.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/2026-07-28/getting-started/intro
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_Context_Protocol
- https://modelcontextprotocol.io/community/governance
- https://jspahrsummers.com/
- https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2025-12-09-mcp-joins-agentic-ai-foundation/
- https://github.com/dsp

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.