What Smithery does
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.
Why teams reach for it: Connects agents to a catalog of MCP servers while handling OAuth, credentials and session lifecycle instead of per-server setup.
How Smithery compares
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- Public Api
- Yes
- Submission Model
- Open submission
- One Click Install Targets
- Claude Desktop, Cursor
How will people and clients find it?
Registries & discovery tools are directories or catalogs that help people and AI clients find MCP servers that already exist.