{"slug": "daily-snapshots-of-the-mcp-registry-first-numbers", "title": "Daily snapshots of the MCP Registry: first numbers", "summary": "A developer at bot2botlabs has been taking daily snapshots of the official MCP Registry since 6 November 2026, publishing a baseline from the 7 November snapshot that counts 57,993 entries (57,090 active, 903 deprecated) from 36,027 publishers, with 91% listing exactly one server. Read-only tools/list probes of 550 public hosted servers found 388 answering openly and 123 requiring login, a median of 9 tools per server, and 31% of 6,621 listed tools carrying no annotations. The archive also found 34.7% of active entries give no source repository, 12% of 858 checked GitHub repos no longer exist, and the top 1% of 4,643 npm packages take about 90% of downloads.", "body_md": "The official [MCP Registry](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io) shows what’s listed *now*, but it doesn’t keep a history. Since **6 November 2026** I’ve been taking a full snapshot every day, plus read-only `tools/list` probes of public hosted servers (initialize + list tools only — never calling a tool). This is a baseline from the **7 November 2026, 06:36 UTC** snapshot ([mcp-shelf-archive `snapshot-2026-11-07`](https://github.com/bot2botlabs/mcp-shelf-archive/releases/tag/snapshot-2026-11-07)). Two days of history so far, so nothing here is a trend yet.\n\n### \n  \n  \n  What’s on the shelf\n\n- \n**57,993** entries:**57,090** active and**903** deprecated.\n- Overnight from 6→7 November: **158** added,**3** removed.\n- \n**19,109** active entries have a latest-version date in October 2026;**9,295** more are dated 1–7 November (that’s the date of each entry’s latest version, not when it was first listed).\n\n### \n  \n  \n  Who publishes\n\n- \n**36,027** publishers.\n- \n**91%** list exactly one server.\n- Ten publishers account for about **15%** of active entries; the single largest GitHub-namespaced account lists**2,366** .\n\n### \n  \n  \n  Source links and downloads\n\n- \n**34.7%** of active entries give no source repository.\n- Of **858** linked GitHub repositories checked,**104 (12%)** no longer exist;**55%** of the rest have zero stars.\n- Across **4,643** servers whose npm packages we checked: median**81** downloads/week; the top**1%** take about**90%** of all downloads in that sample.\n\n### \n  \n  \n  Tool lists (hosted, public HTTPS only)\n\n- Asked **550** hosted servers;**388** answered openly;**123** required a login.\n- Median server exposes **9** tools; the largest in the sample,**165** .\n- Of **6,621** tools listed,**31%** carry no annotations at all (no readOnly / destructive hints).\n- Of **152** servers already seen the day before,**16** changed tool definitions overnight —**14** of those 16 were one publisher updating the same shared tools across its servers. Read that as one night’s data, not a rate.\n\n### \n  \n  \n  Method (short)\n\n- Registry: public MCP Registry API, latest version of every entry, daily.\n- Tool lists: public, no-login, HTTPS endpoints; rotating sample + fixed watch list; `initialize` and`tools/list` only.\n- Downloads / repos: official npm and GitHub APIs, daily rotating samples.\n- No logins, no scraping, no tool calls.\n\n### \n  \n  \n  Limits\n\nSamples rotate and aren’t the whole shelf. Counting entries isn’t judging quality. Corrections welcome: [jordan@bot2botlabs.com](mailto:jordan@bot2botlabs.com).\n\nFull write-up with the same figures and limits:\n\n[https://bot2botlabs.com/r/mcp-gh-202611-a](https://bot2botlabs.com/r/mcp-gh-202611-a)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/daily-snapshots-of-the-mcp-registry-first-numbers", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/bot2botlabs/daily-snapshots-of-the-mcp-registry-first-numbers-5g3", "published_at": "2026-11-09 19:19:07+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-09 19:27:35.202229+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["agent-protocols", "ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "mlops"], "entities": ["MCP Registry", "bot2botlabs", "GitHub", "npm", "Model Context Protocol"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/daily-snapshots-of-the-mcp-registry-first-numbers", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/daily-snapshots-of-the-mcp-registry-first-numbers.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/daily-snapshots-of-the-mcp-registry-first-numbers.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/daily-snapshots-of-the-mcp-registry-first-numbers.jsonld"}}