Smithery
A registry and toolchain for MCP servers.
Smithery indexes and helps deploy MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers — a distribution layer for the tool ecosystem agents connect to.
In the news
Best of Agent Harnesses tracks 167 harnesses — and their graveyard
The Best of Agent Harnesses list ranks 167 agent harnesses weekly by capability, autonomy and recovery, ships an MCP server so agents can pick their own harness, and maintains a graveyard that flagged a 268k-star repo for suspected star manipulation. Curation itself becomes harness infrastructure.
Anthropic moves MCP toward open foundation governance
Anthropic announces plans to donate MCP to a neutral foundation, with new registry, auth and sandbox specs — cementing MCP as vendor-neutral infrastructure for the entire agent ecosystem.
Anthropic introduces the Model Context Protocol
Anthropic open-sources MCP, a standard for connecting AI assistants to data and tools. Within a year it was adopted by OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and most of the agent ecosystem — becoming the de-facto tool-connect layer of agent harnesses.
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