The MCP Registry is a centralized directory that maintains metadata about available MCP-compliant services, tools, and resources for discovery and access by clients.
View All TagsYou’ve built an MCP server. It accesses data, performs actions, and works perfectly in your local development environment.
Now what?
To make your tools truly useful, they need to be accessible—whether by your team, your organization, or the global community of AI developers. This guide covers how to take your MCP server from localhost to production, and how to register it so it can be discovered.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), architects are facing a critical decision: how to secure and govern connections between AI clients and a sprawling ecosystem of tools and data servers.
The traditional answer is a Gateway—a centralized proxy that inspects every byte. The modern answer is a Connect Authority—a distributed Zero Trust model that separates permission from traffic.
In the world of MCP (Model Context Protocol), two architectural patterns often come up for discussion: using a Registry as a Connect Authority versus deploying a traditional Gateway. While both approaches aim to manage and secure connections between clients and servers, they do so in fundamentally different ways.
In this article, we will explore why the MCP Registry + Connect Authority model often outperforms the traditional Gateway approach.
