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# Official MCP Registry: MCP vendor profile | Agent MCP Directory

> Official MCP Registry: registry or directory. Products: MCP Registry API. 7 dated facts, prices, standards and two checks, each sourced, read 5 November 2026.

Source: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/vendors/official-mcp-registry
Site: Agent MCP Directory
Last reviewed: 2026-11-05

# Official MCP Registry: MCP vendor profile

The official MCP Registry is the protocol project's central metadata store for public MCP servers, meant to be read by downstream marketplaces and private registries rather than directly by host applications, as documented by the vendor. The MCP project expects downstream aggregators to pull registry metadata on a regular but infrequent schedule, for example once per hour (modelcontextprotocol.io).

## At a glance

| Type | Registries and directories |
| --- | --- |
| Operator | MCP Registry maintainers |
| Home | registry.modelcontextprotocol.io |
| Price | free |
| Read | 5 November 2026 |

## What it does for this layer

The MCP project calls the registry "the official centralized metadata repository for publicly accessible MCP servers", backed by contributors such as Anthropic, GitHub, PulseMCP and Microsoft ([modelcontextprotocol.io](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/registry/about)). The registry accepts open-source and closed-source servers, as long as the install method (for example an npm package or a public Docker image) or the remote server itself is publicly reachable ([modelcontextprotocol.io](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/registry/about)). The registry docs say it "is not intended to be directly consumed by host applications"; hosts should read downstream registries that implement its OpenAPI spec ([modelcontextprotocol.io](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/registry/about)).

The registry defines an OpenAPI spec that other MCP registries, public or private, can implement so host applications get one interface ([modelcontextprotocol.io](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/registry/about)). The registry codebase "is not designed for self-hosting", and its maintainers do not support forks ([modelcontextprotocol.io](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/registry/about)). The registry was still labelled a preview on 5 Nov 2026, with a warning that breaking changes or data resets may occur before general availability ([modelcontextprotocol.io](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/registry/about)).

## Products and plans

| Product | What it does | Price |
| --- | --- | --- |
| MCP Registry API | Public REST API and OpenAPI spec for server metadata. | free; from 0 USD (source, as of 5 November 2026) |

## Standards

| Standard | Part of it | Status | What the page says | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MCP | registry schema | Supports | Defines the server metadata schema and an OpenAPI spec other registries can implement. | modelcontextprotocol.io |

## Checks on its own domain

| Check | Domain | Result | Scanned | Method |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ora cached score | registry.modelcontextprotocol.io | no cached score GET /api/score returned HTTP 404 (no cached score) | not scanned | how it was taken |
| Cloudflare agent-readiness scan | registry.modelcontextprotocol.io | 0 of 100, L0 Not Ready; 0 of 15 counted checks passed | 5 November 2026 | how it was taken |

## What it does not do

-   The official registry does not curate or rate servers; that is left to downstream aggregators ([modelcontextprotocol.io](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/registry/about)).

## Related on this site

Hosts page

-   [Official MCP Registry](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/hosts/official-mcp-registry/)

Type

-   [Registries and directories](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/vendors/by-type/registry/)

Standards

-   [MCP](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/standards/mcp/)

Section

-   [All vendors](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/vendors/)

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/vendors/official-mcp-registry/index.md)

## Sources

-   [Official MCP Registry home](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/), read 5 November 2026
-   [The MCP Registry - Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/registry/about), read 5 November 2026 (the project's own page)

Last reviewed 5 November 2026