THE INDEX · REGISTRIES & DISCOVERY
Registries & Discovery
Catalogues that let a person or an agent find MCP servers. Includes the official registry, community directories, and container catalogues.
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- Public registries and directories of MCP servers
- Container catalogues of packaged MCP servers
- Registry APIs that clients query at runtime
Awesome MCP Servers
Registries & Discovery
Awesome MCP Servers is a curated list of Model Context Protocol server implementations, published as the README of a GitHub repository and grouped into topic sections such as aggregators, browser automation and cloud platforms. Each entry carries markers for whether it is an official implementation, which language it is written in, which operating systems it targets, and whether it is a local service talking to software on the machine or a cloud service talking to a remote API; the same list is mirrored by a web directory at glama.ai/mcp/servers.
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Docker MCP Catalog
Registries & Discovery
The Docker MCP Catalog is a curated collection of verified MCP servers packaged as Docker images and distributed through Docker Hub. Each server runs as an isolated container, and Docker builds and signs the catalog's local servers.
SaaS
MCP.Directory
Registries & Discovery
A directory of Model Context Protocol servers and agent skills that can be browsed, searched and compared. Each server page carries an Install button that produces one-click install configurations for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code and Claude Code.
SaaS
Glama
Registries & Discovery
Glama is a web directory of Model Context Protocol servers and remote connectors that builds, runs and introspects each listed server in a sandbox and publishes the resulting schemas, behavioural findings and quality scores. It also deploys open-source servers from the registry onto its own infrastructure behind an MCP gateway that logs every JSON-RPC call, gates individual tools and manages OAuth credentials.
SaaS
Kong MCP Registry
Registries & Discovery
Kong MCP Registry is a centralized publishing and discovery endpoint for MCP servers within an organization, offered as part of Kong Konnect's Catalog. Each published server definition can list installable packages and hosted remote endpoints, and only clients authenticated to Konnect can query the registry.
SaaS
MCP.so
Registries & Discovery
MCP.so is a community-driven directory of third-party MCP servers and clients, searchable by name, category, tag, runtime or integration. The same site also indexes remote servers, CLI tools, loops, agent skills and agents, and takes listings by submission, including a $39 paid submission that publishes immediately without review and carries a verified badge and featured placement.
SaaS
MCPB
Registries & Discovery
MCP Bundles (.mcpb) are zip archives containing a local MCP server and a manifest.json that describes the server and its capabilities, letting end users install a local MCP server with a single click. The repository provides the bundle specification, a CLI tool for creating bundles, and the code Claude for macOS and Windows uses to load and verify bundles; the project was renamed from DXT (Desktop Extensions).
CLI tool
mcpservers.org
Registries & Discovery
mcpservers.org is a web directory of Model Context Protocol servers, browsable by category and filterable to featured or official entries. It also indexes remote MCP servers, agent skills, MCP clients and topic guides, and has a page for submitting new entries.
SaaS
mpak
Registries & Discovery
Open-source registry for MCP server bundles with cryptographic ownership verification and security scanning.
HybridMCP Registry
Registries & Discovery
MCP Registry is a hosted metadata repository for publicly available MCP servers, with a REST API that MCP clients and aggregators query to discover them. Server creators publish a single server.json entry giving the server's unique name, where to locate it and how to execute it, and the registry stores that metadata pointing at package registries such as npm, PyPI and Docker Hub rather than hosting the code itself.
SaaS
OpenTools
Registries & Discovery
OpenTools is a hosted API and registry that lets developers call Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools through a single, OpenAI-compatible completions endpoint. It also provides a public registry for browsing available MCP servers, covering capabilities such as web search, location data, and web scraping.
SaaS
PulseMCP
Registries & Discovery
A directory of Model Context Protocol servers, clients and use cases, published alongside The Agentic Loop newsletter. PulseMCP also runs a Sub-Registry API that serves server.json metadata piped from the official MCP Registry together with its own enrichments, such as popularity estimates and a flag for whether the service owner maintains the server.
SaaS
Smithery
Registries & Discovery
Smithery is a registry where users find MCP servers and developers publish their own for distribution. Servers can also be hosted on Smithery infrastructure, and Smithery manages the OAuth flows and credential storage for connections to them.
SaaS