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A small correction of assumptions regarding #2. This directory is not affiliated with Anthropic. As much as I am pleased by the idea that someone could somehow

A small correction of assumptions regarding #2. This directory is not affiliated with Anthropic. As much as I am pleased by the idea that someone could somehow confuse my hobby project with something that Anthropic could ship, what you see is a hobbyist effort to help curate the community resources. I just happened to have been involved since the early announcement and it kinda snowballed from there. As to 'why', I touch on this in the original comment under the post, but: * it helps with discoverability by standardizing how servers are described * it helps with security by automating audits (non-trivial effort) and disseminating security alerts In terms of scalability, the current setup, while not perfect, has been holding the fort. I've built lots of tooling around virtualizing environments for testing MCP servers, tools for introspection, auto-setup using LLMs, etc. Will see what the future holds, but I am ready to see this grow to thousands of servers.

orliesaurus 2y ago
Extra question: How do you feel about the fact that there are "many" efforts trying to centralize the resources? i.e. mcp-get is it like a - let's see who survives the longest - situation?
- punkpeye 2y ago
  I think that the competition is good for the community; it has kept me on my toes since the start! For these other projects to succeed, they need to figure out how to create value beyond listing servers, e.g. I am doing this now by testing servers in sandboxed environments, running dependency security audits, etc. However, this isn't cheap. So whichever the projects I am competing with also have to have a financial backbone. In my case, I’m building a service—VMs for AI personal assistants—that will integrate this directory. Users will be able to one-click add any MCP to their Glama workspace, etc. Therefore, it made sense to invest into all of this infrastructure. Meanwhile, giving this to the community builds trust and interest in what I do. I see this as a win-win.

orliesaurus 2y ago

Extra question: How do you feel about the fact that there are "many" efforts trying to centralize the resources? i.e. mcp-get is it like a - let's see who survives the longest - situation?

punkpeye 2y ago
I think that the competition is good for the community; it has kept me on my toes since the start! For these other projects to succeed, they need to figure out how to create value beyond listing servers, e.g. I am doing this now by testing servers in sandboxed environments, running dependency security audits, etc. However, this isn't cheap. So whichever the projects I am competing with also have to have a financial backbone. In my case, I’m building a service—VMs for AI personal assistants—that will integrate this directory. Users will be able to one-click add any MCP to their Glama workspace, etc. Therefore, it made sense to invest into all of this infrastructure. Meanwhile, giving this to the community builds trust and interest in what I do. I see this as a win-win.