Smithery
Smithery is a platform for discovering, deploying, and managing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and skills. It operates a public registry of community-built MCP extensions that AI agents can use to access external tools, data sources, and services, plus a Connect gateway that bundles connections in a namespace behind a single MCP endpoint at mcp.smithery.run. The platform exposes APIs for server registry browsing, server deployment, skill publishing, namespace management, scoped service tokens, connection lifecycle, trigger subscriptions, and an MCP transport endpoint for AI-agent integration.
Smithery publishes 9 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Connect API, connect.mcp API, Domains API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, LLM, MCP, AI Agents, and Developer Tools.
The Smithery catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Smithery’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, CLI, engineering blog, tooling, and 26 more developer resources.
Kin Score
What adopting Smithery moves on the Kin Score 2
Smithery is an area vendor: providers adopt it to run part of their developer surface. This is the Kin Score checks its features can move for a provider that adopts it, what each one really earns, and what it earns nothing for.
Smithery is distribution for an MCP server the provider already runs, not a way to get one: the publish flow takes your own HTTPS URL (or an MCPB bundle) and fronts it with the Smithery Gateway. If a provider declares the gateway URL as its MCP server, 0.22.0 grades it platform (0.25 of 12 agent-readiness points); the full credit comes from the provider’s own server on its own domain, which Smithery neither creates nor serves. The registry page, skills listing and gateway-side OAuth metadata are discoverability for Smithery, not checks the provider passes.
| Check | Earns | Through |
|---|---|---|
| MCP Serverplatform Agent ReadinessSmithery no longer builds or hosts server code for a provider; the gateway is one shared proxy shape on Smithery’s domain, which 0.22.0 grades platform. |
3.0 of 12 | Gateway connection URLs on Smithery domains |
| Agent Skillconditional Developer ErgonomicsOnly if the provider itself authors the skill in its own GitHub repository and declares an AgentSkill in apis.yml. Smithery indexes skills; it does not write them, and a listing of a skill someone else wrote about the provider’s API is not first-party. |
3.0 of 3 | Smithery Skills registry (GitHub-backed) |
What Smithery ships that earns nothing (5)
- Managed OAuth connections and gateway protected-resource metadata — The protected-resource document Smithery advertises is served on mcp.smithery.run for Smithery’s namespace endpoint. The dimension reads /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource on the provider’s own host; Smithery only asks the provider’s server to return 401 per RFC 9728.
- Managed OAuth connections and gateway protected-resource metadata — Smithery registers itself as a client via Client ID Metadata Documents; the dimension wants a registration_endpoint in the provider’s own discovery document, which Smithery does not serve.
- Static server card at /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json — The check reads an api-catalog, security.txt, protected-resource or AAuth resource document; an MCP server card is none of them.
- URL publishing through the Smithery Gateway — A Smithery registry listing is Smithery’s discoverability; the dimension reads a WellKnown/APICatalog pointer the provider declares.
- MCPB bundle distribution for local stdio servers — A downloadable stdio bundle is not a probed remote deployment on the provider’s domain; the rubric reads the mcp/ manifest deployment mode and probe verdict.
A model, not a score. Adopting this vendor changes a provider's Kin Score only when the provider publishes the resulting artifacts on its own surface; nothing here writes a score, and no sponsorship or partnership can. The rating is not for sale → · Full vendor facets artifact
APIs 9
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Smithery Connect API
The connect API from Smithery — 12 operation(s) for connect.
Smithery connect.mcp API
The connect.mcp API from Smithery — 1 operation(s) for connect.mcp.
Smithery Domains API
The domains API from Smithery — 2 operation(s) for domains.
Smithery Health API
The Health API from Smithery — 1 operation(s) for health.
Smithery Namespaces API
The namespaces API from Smithery — 3 operation(s) for namespaces.
Smithery Organizations API
The organizations API from Smithery — 2 operation(s) for organizations.
Smithery Servers API
Browse the MCP server registry, manage server configuration, and handle deployments
Smithery Skills API
Discover and search reusable prompt-based skills for MCP servers
Smithery Tokens API
The tokens API from Smithery — 1 operation(s) for tokens.
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Open Collections 12
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONSmithery Platform connect API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmithery Platform connect connect.mcp API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmithery Platform API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmithery Platform connect domains API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmithery Platform connect Health API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmithery Platform connect namespaces API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmithery Platform connect organizations API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmithery Platform connect servers API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmithery Platform connect skills API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmithery Platform connect tokens API
OPEN COLLECTIONSmithery Platform API
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MCP Servers 2
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Smithery MCP Server (mcp.smithery.run)
Hosted MCP gateway endpoint that bundles all connections in a namespace behind a single URL
MCP SERVERPricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Smithery Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Smithery Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Smithery Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Smithery API Rules
SPECTRALSmithery API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 2
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Smithery MCP Server
JSON SCHEMASmithery Skill
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 1
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Smithery Server Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 7
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Smithery Get Server Example
EXAMPLESmithery List Skills Example
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Documentation 9
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 11
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
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