# Daily snapshots of the MCP Registry: first numbers

> Source: <https://dev.to/bot2botlabs/daily-snapshots-of-the-mcp-registry-first-numbers-5g3>
> Published: 2026-11-09 19:19:07+00:00

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.

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  What’s on the shelf

- 
**57,993** entries:**57,090** active and**903** deprecated.
- Overnight from 6→7 November: **158** added,**3** removed.
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**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).

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  Who publishes

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**36,027** publishers.
- 
**91%** list exactly one server.
- Ten publishers account for about **15%** of active entries; the single largest GitHub-namespaced account lists**2,366** .

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  Source links and downloads

- 
**34.7%** of active entries give no source repository.
- Of **858** linked GitHub repositories checked,**104 (12%)** no longer exist;**55%** of the rest have zero stars.
- 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.

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  Tool lists (hosted, public HTTPS only)

- Asked **550** hosted servers;**388** answered openly;**123** required a login.
- Median server exposes **9** tools; the largest in the sample,**165** .
- Of **6,621** tools listed,**31%** carry no annotations at all (no readOnly / destructive hints).
- 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.

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  Method (short)

- Registry: public MCP Registry API, latest version of every entry, daily.
- Tool lists: public, no-login, HTTPS endpoints; rotating sample + fixed watch list; `initialize` and`tools/list` only.
- Downloads / repos: official npm and GitHub APIs, daily rotating samples.
- No logins, no scraping, no tool calls.

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  Limits

Samples rotate and aren’t the whole shelf. Counting entries isn’t judging quality. Corrections welcome: [jordan@bot2botlabs.com](mailto:jordan@bot2botlabs.com).

Full write-up with the same figures and limits:

[https://bot2botlabs.com/r/mcp-gh-202611-a](https://bot2botlabs.com/r/mcp-gh-202611-a)