--- title: "Official MCP Registry: rubric and evidence | Agent MCP Directory" description: "Official MCP Registry: The community metaregistry of MCP servers under the modelcontextprotocol project. Scored on the published rubric, read 4 November 2026." canonical: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/hosts/official-mcp-registry site: "Agent MCP Directory" last_updated: 2026-11-04 section: "Hosts and registries" --- # Official MCP Registry: rubric and evidence | Agent MCP Directory > Official MCP Registry: The community metaregistry of MCP servers under the modelcontextprotocol project. Scored on the published rubric, read 4 November 2026. Source: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/hosts/official-mcp-registry Site: Agent MCP Directory Last reviewed: 2026-11-04 # Official MCP Registry Official MCP Registry (MCP Registry Working Group): The community metaregistry of MCP servers under the modelcontextprotocol project, published to with the mcp-publisher CLI after namespace verification; the pack calls it the Anthropic MCP registry. Remote transport: records both. Price read 4 November 2026: Free to publish and read (read 2026-11-04). ## Fact sheet | Product | Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io) | | --- | --- | | Operator | MCP Registry Working Group | | Kind | registry or directory | | Home | registry.modelcontextprotocol.io | | Pricing | Free to publish and read (read 2026-11-04). (source, read 4 November 2026) | | Vendor profile | Official MCP Registry | ## Rubric | Dimension | Value | Evidence | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Remote transport | records both | remotes[].type is streamable-http or sse. | registry.modelcontextprotocol.io, read 2026-11-04 | | OAuth with client registration | not applicable | The registry records metadata, not auth. | github.com, read 2026-11-04 | | Per-tool auth scoping | not applicable | No tool lists stored. | registry.modelcontextprotocol.io, read 2026-11-04 | | Hosting and scale limits | not a host | Metadata only. | github.com, read 2026-11-04 | | Observability | not applicable | Metadata only. | github.com, read 2026-11-04 | | Pricing | free | Open API, as stated on the source page. | github.com, read 2026-11-04 | | Registry submission | CLI with namespace verification | mcp-publisher plus GitHub, DNS or HTTP proof. | github.com, read 2026-11-04 | | Discoverability by agents | open paginated API | GET /v0/servers with cursor, no key. | registry.modelcontextprotocol.io, read 2026-11-04 | | Own server in the registries | not applicable | The registry is the directory. | registry.modelcontextprotocol.io, read 2026-11-04 | ## What it does not do - Does not verify that a listed endpoint works or what its tools do. - Does not rank or grade servers. - Is still a preview; data resets are possible. ## Dated facts - The registry launched in preview on 8 Sep 2025 and its API entered a v0.1 freeze on 24 Oct 2025; v1 is planned for GA. ([github.com](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry), dated 8 September 2025, read 4 November 2026) - Publishing uses the mcp-publisher CLI, not a pull request; adding a server.json to the repo does not list a server. ([github.com](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry), read 4 November 2026) - Namespaces are verified by GitHub OAuth, GitHub OIDC from Actions, DNS or HTTP; io.github./ needs that GitHub login and reverse-DNS names need domain proof. ([github.com](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry), read 4 November 2026) - A full GET of /v0/servers with version=latest on 4 Nov 2026 returned 56,677 entries: 55,806 active and 871 deprecated. ([registry.modelcontextprotocol.io](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers), read 4 November 2026) - 37,977 of those entries declare at least one remote: 37,751 streamable-http remotes and 1,127 sse remotes. ([registry.modelcontextprotocol.io](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers), read 4 November 2026) - Entries carry the 2025-12-11 server.json schema, with remotes, packages, websiteUrl and repository fields. ([registry.modelcontextprotocol.io](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers), read 4 November 2026) - The registry does not grade servers; status is limited to active or deprecated in the official \_meta block. ([registry.modelcontextprotocol.io](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers), read 4 November 2026) ## Compare and alternatives - [Alternatives to Official MCP Registry](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/hosts/official-mcp-registry/alternatives/) - [Official MCP Registry vs GitHub MCP Registry](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/compare/official-mcp-registry-vs-github-mcp-registry/) - [Official MCP Registry vs Claude Connectors Directory](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/compare/official-mcp-registry-vs-claude-connectors-directory/) - [Smithery vs Official MCP Registry](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/compare/smithery-vs-official-mcp-registry/) - [Glama vs Official MCP Registry](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/compare/glama-vs-official-mcp-registry/) Edition 4 November 2026 Method [How rows are verified](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/method/) Data [CSV and JSON](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/data/) Markdown [This page as markdown](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/hosts/official-mcp-registry/index.md) ## Sources - [Official MCP Registry home](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/), read 4 November 2026 - [Official MCP Registry pricing](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry), read 4 November 2026 - [Official MCP Registry: registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers), read 4 November 2026 Last reviewed 4 November 2026