## GitHub Launches MCP Registry to Streamline AI Agent Discovery **News Title:** Meet the GitHub MCP Registry: The fastest way to discover MCP Servers **Report Provider:** GitHub Blog **Author:** Toby Padilla, Principal Product Manager at GitHub, leading MCP initiatives. **Date:** Published on September 16, 2025. ### Overview GitHub has launched the **GitHub MCP Registry**, a new centralized platform designed to simplify the discovery and use of MCP (Meta-Capability Protocol) servers. This initiative aims to address the fragmentation and friction currently experienced by developers when trying to connect AI agents to their development tools. The registry acts as a "home base" for finding MCP servers, making it easier for developers to integrate AI capabilities into their workflows. ### Key Findings and Conclusions * **Problem:** The current landscape for discovering MCP servers is fractured, with servers scattered across various registries, repositories, and community threads. This leads to slow discovery, friction, and potential security risks. Server creators also face the burden of publishing to multiple platforms and repeatedly answering setup questions. * **Solution:** The GitHub MCP Registry provides a central location for discovering, exploring, and using MCP servers. It aims to make it dramatically easier for developers to find the tools they need, fostering a more open and interoperable AI ecosystem. * **Initial Offering:** The registry launches with a curated directory of MCP servers from leading partners and the open-source community. Each server is linked to its GitHub repository, allowing users to learn about its functionality, get started, and make informed decisions. * **Key Features:** * **Discoverability within VS Code:** Enables one-click installation of MCP servers directly within the VS Code environment. * **Signal over Noise:** Servers are sorted by GitHub stars and community activity, helping users prioritize popular and well-supported options. * **Stack Compatibility:** Works with GitHub Copilot and any MCP-compatible host, ensuring broad integration. * **Collaborative Foundation:** The registry is built with contributions from across the ecosystem, including launch partners who are helping define the quality standards for MCP servers. This collaborative approach ensures developers have access to trusted tools. ### Partner Integrations and Benefits The launch features endorsements and integrations from several key partners, highlighting the practical benefits of the MCP Registry: * **Figma:** Allows developers to easily bring Figma context into Copilot through the Dev Mode MCP server, accelerating the design-to-code workflow and ensuring code alignment with design systems. * **Postman:** Positions MCP as a foundational layer for AI agents and AI-ready APIs. The registry enables developers to access the entire Postman platform from their coding assistants, bridging code, documentation, and execution. * **HashiCorp (an IBM Company):** Developers can now easily discover and add official MCP servers, such as the Terraform MCP server, to their workflows with a single click, speeding up the integration of Terraform's infrastructure management capabilities. * **Dynatrace:** Brings AI-powered observability, security, and performance insights to developers' fingertips via the Dynatrace MCP server. This reduces context switching and cognitive load, enabling faster and more robust software delivery. Dynatrace has seen rapid adoption within its own engineering organization due to the integrated agentic AI experience. * **Remote GitHub MCP Server:** This recently launched server allows agents to connect with GitHub repositories, issues, and pull requests, unlocking deeper agentic workflows. Its inclusion reinforces the commitment to open interoperability. ### Future Vision and Open Ecosystem The GitHub MCP Registry is presented as a starting point. GitHub is collaborating with **Anthropic** and the **MCP Steering Committee** to build an **open-source MCP registry** that will integrate seamlessly with GitHub's. * **Open-Source Integration:** Developers will be able to self-publish MCP servers directly to the OSS MCP Community Registry. These published servers will automatically appear in the GitHub MCP Registry, creating a unified and scalable discovery path. * **Publication Flow Benefits:** * Reduces duplication across registries. * Surfaces transparent metadata and verification signals. * Enables contribution at scale across the ecosystem. * **Goal:** To create a healthier, more open ecosystem that prioritizes quality and accelerates innovation, making the discovery of AI capabilities as simple as searching GitHub. ### Call to Action Developers are encouraged to: * **Browse the GitHub MCP Registry** to discover curated MCP servers. * **Contribute to the OSS MCP Community Registry** to help shape the future of open agentic workflows. The GitHub MCP Registry is positioned as the fastest path from idea to integration and a foundational element for a healthier, more interoperable AI toolchain.
Meet the GitHub MCP Registry: The fastest way to discover MCP Servers
Read original at News Source →This is your new home base for discovering MCP servers. Learn how we’re working with the broader community on MCP publication and discovery. Share: If you’ve tried connecting AI agents to your development tools, you know the pain: MCP servers scattered across numerous registries, random repos, buried in community threads — making discovery slow and full of friction without a central place to go.
Meanwhile, MCP server creators are worn out from publishing to multiple places and answering the same setup questions again and again. The result is a fractured environment that’s fraught with potential security risks. Today, we’re taking the first step toward solving this challenge. The GitHub MCP Registry launches as your new home base for discovering MCP servers.
Whether you’re building with GitHub Copilot, agents, or any AI tool that speaks MCP, this is the place to find what you need. With GitHub already home to most MCP servers, the MCP Registry makes them dramatically easier to discover, explore, and use — helping developers find the right tools faster and contribute to a more open, interoperable ecosystem.
Browse the MCP Registry today and start building with the tools that power agentic workflows. Inside the GitHub MCP Registry We’re starting simple and building in the open. The MCP Registry launches with a curated directory of MCP servers from leading partners and the open source community. Each server is backed by its GitHub repository, so you can learn what it does, how to get started, and make informed choices quickly.
Here’s what you’ll find: Discoverability inside VS Code with one-click installation Signal over noise with servers sorted by GitHub stars and community activity Works with your stack including GitHub Copilot and any MCP-compatible host From day one, the MCP Registry is shaped by contributions from across the ecosystem — including our launch partners who are helping define what the quality of MCP servers look like.
This collaborative foundation ensures developers have access to tools they can trust, and sets the stage for a healthier, more interoperable AI ecosystem. With the launch of GitHub’s MCP Registry, developers can easily bring Figma context into Copilot through our Dev Mode MCP server, accelerating their design-to-code workflow by generating code that’s both production-ready and aligned with their design system.
Anna Kohnen, VP of Business Development, Figma At Postman, we see MCP as a foundational layer of the AI agents stack and a vital part of building AI-ready APIs. The GitHub MCP Registry helps developers access the entire Postman platform from inside their coding assistants, further bridging the gap between code, documentation, and execution in a way that wasn’t possible before.
Bajali Raghavan, Head of Engineering, Postman Terraform empowers developers with consistent infrastructure management. With the launch of GitHub’s MCP Registry, they can now easily discover official MCP servers, such as HashiCorp’s Terraform MCP server, and add them to their workflows with a single click—making it faster than ever to bring Terraform’s capabilities into day-to-day development.
Chris Audie, SVP Product Management, HashiCorp (an IBM Company) By bringing the Dynatrace MCP server to the GitHub MCP Registry, developers get AI-powered observability, security, and performance insights right at their fingertips—so teams can deliver faster, more resilient, and more robust software with less context switching and reduced cognitive load.
We’ve seen rapid adoption across our own engineering organization because the integrated agentic AI experience helps our developers to ship faster and with more confidence—all without leaving their IDEs. Bonifaz Kaufmann, VP Product, Dynatrace We’re also excited to include the Remote GitHub MCP Server, which recently launched in general availability.
It allows agents to connect with the rich context found in GitHub repositories, issues, and pull requests — unlocking deeper, multi-step agentic workflows. Its inclusion in the registry reinforces our commitment to open interoperability and gives developers a trusted way to integrate GitHub context into any MCP-compatible tool.
Building an open ecosystem together The launch of the GitHub MCP Registry is just the beginning. We’re working closely with Anthropic and the MCP Steering Committee to build an open-source MCP registry that integrates seamlessly with GitHub’s. Together with the broader community, we’re shaping the open standard and contribution model for MCP.
Developers will be able to self-publish MCP servers directly to the OSS MCP Community Registry. Once published, those servers will automatically appear in the GitHub MCP Registry, creating a unified, scalable path for discovery. This publication flow will: Reduce duplication across registries Surface transparent metadata and verification signals Enable contribution at scale across the ecosystem The result is a healthier, more open ecosystem — one that leads with quality and accelerates innovation.
The road ahead Together with the open source community, Anthropic, and the MCP Steering Committee, we’re building an open ecosystem where discovering the right AI capability is as simple as searching GitHub. The GitHub MCP Registry is your fastest path from idea to integration, and the foundation for a healthier, more interoperable AI toolchain.
Ready to explore? Browse the GitHub MCP Registry to discover curated MCP servers from across the ecosystem. You can also contribute to the OSS MCP Community Registry and help shape the future of open agentic workflows. Let’s build the future of AI tooling together! Written by Toby Padilla is a Principal Product Manager and leads GitHub’s MCP initiatives.
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