[HN Gopher] Directory of MCP Servers
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       Directory of MCP Servers
        
       Author : saikatsg
       Score  : 50 points
       Date   : 2025-05-17 19:14 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | coderstartup wrote:
       | Super cool, Thanks
        
       | Maxious wrote:
       | There's some movement on
       | https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry
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       | > The MCP Registry service provides a centralized repository for
       | MCP server entries. It allows discovery and management of various
       | MCP implementations with their associated metadata,
       | configurations, and capabilities.
        
       | mooreds wrote:
       | Also interesting was mintlify's decision to start one and then
       | shut it down.
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       | https://mintlify.com/blog/why-we-sunsetted-mcpt
       | 
       | Nice story of startup focus.
        
       | asdev wrote:
       | You don't need MCP you just need function calling
        
         | laidoffamazon wrote:
         | Is there a better "universal" or standard framework to do itv
        
           | asdev wrote:
           | you don't need any universal standard, you just need
           | functions specific to your app's use case
        
         | hughdbrown wrote:
         | Yeah, but there is a distinct advantage to using a standard.
         | 
         | Suppose you want your agent to use postgres or git or even file
         | modification. You write your code to use MCP and your backend
         | is already available. It's code you don't have to write.
        
         | mindwok wrote:
         | Yes because we should all be building function calling
         | implementations for the same 10 SaaS services rather than using
         | 10 standard MCP servers.
        
       | devops000 wrote:
       | What is a useful agent build with MCP?
        
         | kordlessagain wrote:
         | I have an agent that creates new tools here:
         | https://github.com/kordless/gnosis-evolve. I use it with Claude
         | Desktop for a lot of different things, including browsing or
         | searching for content, with the various crawlers that are out
         | now. There's a crawl4ai tool that is pretty useful.
        
       | reustle wrote:
       | Here are a few more:
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       | - https://smithery.ai/
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       | - https://github.com/wong2/awesome-mcp-servers
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       | - http://mcp.so/servers
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       | - https://cursor.directory/mcp
       | 
       | But as mentioned above, there is an ongoing discussion for the
       | Anthropic registry
       | https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry
        
       | cadamsdotcom wrote:
       | There's a huge gap in this market for someone who can take these
       | and make them trustworthy. Maybe the OpenRouter of MCP.
        
         | tough wrote:
         | The underlying issue is always relying on a third party, on
         | openrouter you're trusting the end model provider to not do
         | funny business
         | 
         | can't really fix this
        
       | jjfoooo4 wrote:
       | I've been seeing MCP compared to extensions in web browsers.
       | Which I find a telling since I wouldn't exactly say web
       | extensions have been a great success - it's a pretty niche dev
       | market, and the security posture remains pretty anxiety inducing
        
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