What is agentregistry?
agentregistry is an open-source platform that gives you one place to find, manage, and run MCP servers, AI agents, and skills.
Right now, the MCP servers and AI tools your team needs are spread across npm, PyPI, Docker Hub, GitHub repos, and random URLs. Nobody knows which ones are trustworthy, which versions work, or how to get them running. Every developer is doing their own manual Docker setup and IDE configuration.
agentregistry puts all of that into a single registry with a CLI and a web UI. You publish artifacts once, and then anyone on your team can discover them, deploy them with one command, and have their IDE automatically configured to use them.
Why agentregistry?
- One trusted source for AI building blocks — a curated catalog instead of scattered repos, scripts, and one-off MCP setup
- Faster developer onboarding — discover approved artifacts quickly with less manual configuration
- Consistent path from laptop to cluster — same discovery and delivery workflow across local dev and Kubernetes
- Governance without slowing teams down — centralize curation and publishing without forcing each team to rebuild the process
Quick Start
Prerequisites: Docker Desktop with Docker Compose v2+
# 1. Install the CLI
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agentregistry-dev/agentregistry/main/scripts/get-arctl | bash
# 2. Download the Docker Compose file matching the installed CLI release
export VERSION="$(arctl version | awk 'NR == 1 { print $3 }')"
curl -fsSLo agentregistry-compose.yml \
"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agentregistry-dev/agentregistry/${VERSION}/docker/docker-compose.yml"
# 3. Start AgentRegistry and its bundled PostgreSQL database
docker compose -f agentregistry-compose.yml up -d --wait
Open the AgentRegistry UI at http://localhost:12121. To stop the registry while
preserving its data, run:
docker compose -f agentregistry-compose.yml down
Core Capabilities
Build
Create, scaffold, and publish the building blocks of your agentic infrastructure.
- MCP servers -- Register servers from npm (
npx), PyPI (uvx), OCI/Docker images, or remote HTTP/SSE endpoints. Each entry supports versioning, environment variables, and package references.
- Skills -- Build structured knowledge packages that extend what an agent knows. A skill is a
SKILL.md bundled with code examples, docs, PDFs, and reference URLs. Scaffold with arctl init skill, package and push the image with arctl build ./skill --push, then register the skill record with arctl apply -f skill.yaml.
- Agents -- Define agents that bundle an identity with dependencies: which MCP servers it needs, which skills it uses, and how it should be configured. Scaffold with
arctl init agent, build and push the image with arctl build ./agent --push, then register the versioned agent record with arctl apply -f agent.yaml.
- Prompts -- Create reusable instruction templates that define how an agent should behave in specific contexts. Version and store them alongside agents, skills, and servers so they're discoverable and shareable across your team.
Web UI
A browser-based admin interface at localhost:12121. Browse the artifact catalog, add MCP servers, skills, and agents, review metadata, manage deployments, and configure the registry -- all without touching the CLI.
Registry
Curate a shared catalog of MCP servers, agents, skills, and prompts your teams can trust and reuse.
- Publish artifacts to a central registry from npm, PyPI, Docker, OCI, or remote endpoints
- Discover approved artifacts through the CLI, REST API, or web UI at
localhost:12121
- Give teams a consistent source of truth across environments
Curation and Governance
Turn a broad set of available AI artifacts into a collection your organization is willing to support.
- Organize what developers can discover and deploy
- Review versioning, metadata, and environment variable requirements
- Standardize how artifacts are shared across teams
- Keep control of what gets published and promoted
Deployment Workflows
Move from discovery to usage without reinventing the same delivery path for every team.
- Run workflows locally with
arctl
- Deploy Agent Registry into Kubernetes with Helm
- Support local
arctl run workflows and shared Kubernetes environments from the same registry
- Build and push agents — blueprints bundle an agent with its MCP servers and skills into a single deployable unit
Client and Gateway Integration
Make approved artifacts easier to consume from the tools developers already use.
- Generate configuration for Claude Desktop, Cursor, Kiro IDE, and VS Code
- Pair with agentgateway for a consistent access layer to deployed MCP infrastructure
- Reduce manual setup for AI clients and shared environments
How It Works Together
- Platform teams curate and publish approved MCP servers, agents, and skills in Agent Registry
- Developers discover those artifacts through the web UI or
arctl
- Teams run artifacts locally with
arctl or deploy them to Kubernetes
- AI clients and shared gateway infrastructure connect to approved artifacts through a consistent workflow
Secure Access with agentgateway
agentregistry pairs with agentgateway to give you a single, secure entry point to all your deployed MCP servers and agents.
Instead of exposing every MCP server individually, agentgateway acts as an AI-native reverse proxy that sits in front of your entire agentic infrastructure:
- Single endpoint — AI clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code) connect to one URL. The gateway routes each tool call to the correct backend MCP server.
- Authentication & authorization — Enforce identity and access policies before requests reach your MCP servers. Control who can call which tools. Supports JWT validation and on-behalf-of auth flows.
- Centralized observability — Log and monitor all agent-to-tool traffic in one place instead of instrumenting each server separately. Supports OTEL endpoints for traces, metrics, and logs.
- Dynamic discovery — Deploy a new MCP server through agentregistry and every connected client picks it up automatically — no reconfiguration needed.
- LLM gateway — agentgateway also acts as a unified gateway for LLM providers, giving you a single endpoint to route, manage, and secure access to multiple language models.
- Transport flexibility — Proxy across stdio, SSE, and streamable HTTP transports seamlessly.
When you run arctl apply -f deployment.yaml, agentregistry automatically configures the gateway routing so your MCP servers are reachable through the secured proxy. Run arctl configure cursor to point your IDE at the gateway endpoint.
Related Projects
Community
Communication channels
If you're interested in participating with the agentregistry community, come talk to us!
Community meetings
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Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines and DEVELOPMENT.md for architecture and local development setup.
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License
Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.
