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MCP Server(s) Discoverability

Open kidehen opened this issue 7 months ago • 2 comments

Problem
Discoverability of MCP servers currently relies on a growing number of registries. This approach is not scalable and inevitably leads to a dominant registrar that risks becoming a market choke point.

Solution
Adopt an IANA-registered link relation embedded in the HTML documents of MCP server providers. Similar to how RSS and Atom enabled federated content discovery during the blogosphere era, this method supports a loosely coupled, registry-independent approach to MCP server discovery.

Implementation
The following entry in an MCP server provider’s HTML page is all that’s needed to support this as a recommended best practice:

<link rel="service" href="https://api.example.com/mcp">

kidehen avatar May 21 '25 22:05 kidehen

@mrexodia I will check with this

kavinkumar807 avatar May 14 '25 14:05 kavinkumar807

This issue was resolved with PR #480 .

olaservo avatar Jul 14 '25 03:07 olaservo