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Re: Directory of MCP Servers

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Post by cadamsdotcom » Sat, May 17, 2025, 10:44 PM UTC

There's a huge gap in this market for someone who can take these and make them trustworthy. Maybe the OpenRouter of MCP.

Re: Directory of MCP Servers

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Post by mindwok » Sat, May 17, 2025, 10:44 PM UTC

asdev wrote: post #5

You don't need MCP you just need function calling

Yes because we should all be building function calling implementations for the same 10 SaaS services rather than using 10 standard MCP servers.

Re: Directory of MCP Servers

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Post by tough » Sat, May 17, 2025, 10:49 PM UTC

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #11

There's a huge gap in this market for someone who can take these and make them trustworthy. Maybe the OpenRouter of MCP.

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

Re: Directory of MCP Servers

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Post by kordlessagain » Sat, May 17, 2025, 10:50 PM UTC

devops000 wrote: post #8

What is a useful agent build with MCP?

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.

Re: Directory of MCP Servers

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Post by jjfoooo4 » Sat, May 17, 2025, 10:51 PM UTC

I’ve been seeing MCP compared to extensions in web browsers. Which I find 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

Re: Directory of MCP Servers

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Post by connor4312 » Sat, May 17, 2025, 11:15 PM UTC

Maxious wrote: post #3

There's some movement on https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry > 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.

@ VS Code we've been collaborating on this and plan to ship initial support for registries in our next release.

Re: Directory of MCP Servers

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Post by cyanydeez » Sat, May 17, 2025, 11:17 PM UTC

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #11

There's a huge gap in this market for someone who can take these and make them trustworthy. Maybe the OpenRouter of MCP.

I don't see how they could ever be trust worthy without kneecaping the claimed benefits.

Re: Directory of MCP Servers

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Post by 867-5309 » Sat, May 17, 2025, 11:26 PM UTC

Model Context Protocol

Re: Directory of MCP Servers

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Post by tkellogg » Sat, May 17, 2025, 11:39 PM UTC

reustle wrote: post #10

Here are a few more: - https://smithery.ai/ - https://github.com/wong2/awesome-mcp-servers - http://mcp.so/servers - https://cursor.directory/mcp But as mentioned above, there is an ongoing discussion for the Anthropic registry https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry

FYI https://mcp.so/ is the exact same thing as was posted. Not sure why they directed to the github instead of the actual site..

Re: Directory of MCP Servers

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Post by djohnston » Sun, May 18, 2025, 12:03 AM UTC

asdev wrote: post #7

laidoffamazon wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a better “universal” or standard framework to do itv

you don't need any universal standard, you just need functions specific to your app's use case

you can leverage MCPs without building any app at all.