The MCP Registry turns server discovery into agent infrastructure

MCP solves part of the agent integration problem by defining a common tool and resource protocol, but production clients also need a way to discover which servers exist and whether their metadata can be trusted. The official MCP Registry describes itself as an app-store-like catalog for MCP servers and documents a publishing flow, live API docs, production seeding, and namespace ownership checks through GitHub, GitHub Actions OIDC, DNS verification, or HTTP verification. For agent builders, the practical signal is that MCP adoption will depend not only on protocol support, but also on registry-grade discovery, metadata quality, ownership verification, API stability, and client-side trust policy.