MCP Registry (Official)

The official MCP server registry maintained by Anthropic's Model Context Protocol team — a canonical directory of available MCP servers for discovery and installation by agents and developers.

Evaluated Mar 06, 2026 (0d ago) vcurrent
Homepage ↗ Repo ↗ Developer Tools mcp model-context-protocol registry discovery official anthropic directory
⚙ Agent Friendliness
72
/ 100
Can an agent use this?
🔒 Security
87
/ 100
Is it safe for agents?
⚡ Reliability
79
/ 100
Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality
50
Documentation
82
Error Messages
75
Auth Simplicity
100
Rate Limits
60

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement
100
Auth Strength
80
Scope Granularity
80
Dep. Hygiene
85
Secret Handling
90

Public read API with no credentials required — minimal security surface. HTTPS enforced. Anthropic-maintained infrastructure.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA
85
Version Stability
78
Breaking Changes
75
Error Recovery
78
AF Security Reliability

Best When

An agent or developer needs to discover what MCP servers exist for a given use case and get their installation/configuration details.

Avoid When

You need quality ratings or security assessments of MCP servers — the registry lists servers but does not evaluate them.

Use Cases

  • • Discovering available MCP servers by category or capability
  • • Looking up MCP server installation instructions and configuration
  • • Finding official and community MCP servers for specific use cases
  • • Integrating MCP server discovery into agent tool selection workflows
  • • Checking metadata about MCP servers (versions, maintainers, categories)

Not For

  • • Installing MCP servers (use npm/pip install for that)
  • • Evaluating MCP server quality (use Assay for that)
  • • Custom or private MCP server hosting

Interface

REST API
Yes
GraphQL
No
gRPC
No
MCP Server
No
SDK
No
Webhooks
No

Authentication

Methods: none
OAuth: No Scopes: No

Public read access to registry data requires no authentication. Submission of new servers may require GitHub authentication.

Pricing

Model: free
Free tier: Yes
Requires CC: No

Free public infrastructure. No cost to query or list servers.

Agent Metadata

Pagination
cursor
Idempotent
Full
Retry Guidance
Not documented

Known Gotchas

  • ⚠ No MCP server for the registry itself — must use REST API or query GitHub directly
  • ⚠ Registry data may lag behind actual MCP server releases — always check official repos for latest versions
  • ⚠ Server quality and security are not verified by the registry — listing does not imply quality
  • ⚠ Rate limits not prominently documented — add conservative backoff for automated queries
  • ⚠ Schema may evolve as MCP protocol matures — check for breaking changes

Alternatives

smithery-mcp assay-mcp-server

Full Evaluation Report

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.

5208
Packages Evaluated
26151
Need Evaluation
173
Need Re-evaluation
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