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  "name": "Smithery",
  "url": "https://smithery.ai",
  "cat": "mcp",
  "group": "ai",
  "tagline": "MCP registry + hosting platform",
  "price": "Free to browse and install · paid tiers for hosted servers and managed connections",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "The largest MCP marketplace, advertising 15,190+ servers with generated config for Claude Code, Cursor and other clients. It is also a host: you can deploy servers to Smithery over streamable HTTP, and it manages auth, credentials and sessions for you. Its homepage states Smithery is now part of Arcade.dev.",
  "why": "The fastest path from 'I need a Notion tool' to a working config. It generates the client snippet and runs the OAuth handshake so you never hand-edit a JSON config file.",
  "warn": "Listing volume is not curation — most of those 15,000 entries are unvetted community code. Using hosted connections also means your access tokens live in a third party's vault.",
  "install": "npx smithery auth login, then copy the generated config from the server's page",
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    "name": "MCP servers & registries",
    "desc": "How your agent reaches past the terminal. Directory scale is not a quality signal.",
    "group": "ai",
    "groupName": "Put AI inside it"
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    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://smithery.ai/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-19T00:17:14.278+00:00"
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