What goes into a solid MCP registry?

Bill Doerrfeld | March 31, 2026

My latest for InfoWorld explores what an MCP registry is and what makes an enterprise-grade MCP registry production-ready for AI agents.

How do you govern hundreds of MCP servers in an enterprise? MCP registries are emerging as a way to unify and manage a catalog of approved tools, helping with discovery, governance, and safe usage in agentic systems.


But there is a right way to do it at scale. As Christian Posta says, if you're treating an MCP registry as "just another static catalog," you're doing it wrong.


A quality MCP registry requires rich, semantic tool metadata, developer-friendly controls, clear privilege boundaries, and thoughtful decisions around public versus private registries.


In short, MCP registries are becoming a core control plane for governing how AI agents discover and use tools across enterprise systems.


I got a ton of interest from sources on this one, which says a lot about the development energy around MCP and agentic infrastructure right now.

Read: How to build an enterprise-grade MCP registry

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