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Registry

A community driven registry service for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

Install

$docker run -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/modelcontextprotocol/registry:latest
Claude Code
claude mcp add registry -- docker run -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/modelcontextprotocol/registry:latest
Cursor / Claude Desktop (mcp.json)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "registry": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-p",
        "8080:8080",
        "ghcr.io/modelcontextprotocol/registry:latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Install command taken from the project's README or registry entry. Always review code before running it.

MCP Registry

The MCP registry provides MCP clients with a list of MCP servers, like an app store for MCP servers.

📤 Publish my MCP server | ⚡️ Live API docs | 👀 Ecosystem vision | 📖 Full documentation

Development Status

2025-10-24 update: The Registry API has entered an API freeze (v0.1) 🎉. For the next month or more, the API will remain stable with no breaking changes, allowing integrators to confidently implement support. This freeze applies to v0.1 while development continues on v0. We'll use this period to validate the API in real-world integrations and gather feedback to shape v1 for general availability. Thank you to everyone for your contributions and patience—your involvement has been key to getting us here!

2025-09-08 update: The registry has launched in preview 🎉 (announcement blog post). While the system is now more stable, this is still a preview release and breaking changes or data resets may occur. A general availability (GA) release will follow later. We'd love your feedback in GitHub discussions or in the #registry-dev Discord (joining details here).

Registry Working Group:

Contributing

We use multiple channels for collaboration - see modelcontextprotocol.io/community/communication.

Often (but not always) ideas flow through this pipeline:

  • Discord - Real-time community discussions
  • Discussions - Propose and discuss product/technical requirements
  • Issues - Track well-scoped technical work
  • Pull Requests - Contribute work towards issues

Quick start:

Pre-requisites

  • Docker
  • Go - version per the go directive in go.mod; the Go toolchain fetches it for you
  • ko - Container image builder for Go (installation instructions)
  • golangci-lint - version per the golangci-lint-action pin in ci.yml, so local lint matches CI

Running the server

# Start full development environment
make dev-compose

This starts the registry at localhost:8080 with PostgreSQL. The database uses ephemeral storage and is reset each time you restart the containers, ensuring a clean state for development and testing.

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