Catalog Systems MCP gateways & registries Official MCP Registry

Official MCP Registry

https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/

Community-driven registry service and API run by the Model Context Protocol project, where publishers list MCP servers under namespaced, versioned entries for clients and downstream catalogs to discover.

Active · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 13 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction

At a glance

Type
Product vendor fix
Tier
T3
Section
MCP gateways & registries
Created
2025-02-05 repo fix
Latest release
last commit 2026-10-29 repo fix
License
Apache-2.0 (transitioning from MIT) vendor fix
GitHub
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry (7419★) repo fix
Pricing
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Funding
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Freshness
2026-10-29 fix
Layer
agent-infra repo fix
Licensing
open-source vendor fix
Maturity
preview repo fix
SDK languages
go, rest repo fix

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What changed

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  1. 2026-10-30 Added to the catalog #347

Related systems

References (1)

  • Model Context Protocol (MCP spec) integrates with — Official MCP Registry: registry of Model Context Protocol servers run by the MCP project. (verified 2026-10-29)