MCP Registry
The community-driven registry service for MCP servers, maintained by the Model Context Protocol project. Discover, list, and validate MCP servers from inside agents. 6,781 GitHub stars and 65 commits on main in the last 30 days.
“The community-driven registry service for MCP servers, maintained by the official Model Context Protocol project. Discover, list, and validate MCP servers from inside agents. 6,781 stars and 65 commits on main in the last 30 days.”
INSTALL THIS SERVER
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-registry": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@modelcontextprotocol/registry"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-registry": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@modelcontextprotocol/registry"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-registry": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@modelcontextprotocol/registry"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-registry": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@modelcontextprotocol/registry"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-registry": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@modelcontextprotocol/registry"
]
}
}
}
5 TOOLS AVAILABLE
OUR ASSESSMENT
- 6,781 GitHub stars.
- 65 commits on main in the last 30 days.
- Official Model Context Protocol project maintenance.
- Validates server manifests against the registry schema.
- Pairs with MCP Inspector for full debug + discovery loop.
- License is NOASSERTION at inspection (typical for early Model Context Protocol projects); track for license clarification.
- Registry coverage depends on community submission velocity.
- Read-only useful surface; publish flow is on GitHub via PR.
No authentication required for read tools. Submitted server entries are reviewed via GitHub PR; trust the registry at the same level you trust GitHub-PR review for any community-curated source.
Operators who want to discover MCP servers programmatically; agent builders auditing the MCP ecosystem; teams maintaining their own MCP catalog and needing a reference baseline.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
ADOPTION METRICS
// Reading this6,781 stars on modelcontextprotocol/registry. 65 commits on main in the last 30 days.
// Reading thisPairs with MCP Inspector (modelcontextprotocol/inspector), Docker MCP Gateway, and the seven other official MCP infrastructure entries in dev-tools.
SOURCES & VERIFICATION
We don't take any single directory's word for it. Before scoring, we cross-reference 5 public MCP sources, install the server ourselves against the clients we cover, and record when we last re-verified.
The same server, 5 different lenses. We reconcile these signals into our editorial score, which is why our number sometimes diverges from a directory-aggregate star count.
| Source | Their rating | Their star count | Their downloads | Last synced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationSwitch This page | 4.7editorial | 6,781 | — | MAY 7, 2026 |
| PulseMCP | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 7, 2026 |
| MCP.so | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 7, 2026 |
| Glama | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 7, 2026 |
| Smithery | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 7, 2026 |
| Official MCP Registry | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 7, 2026 |
// Counts are directory-reported; we don't adjust them. Discrepancies usually come from different snapshot times or star-caching.
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