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MCP Marketplace MCP Server

io.mcp-marketplace/search
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MCP Marketplace is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 7 tools.

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The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 39 hours of history · worst hour 0%
39 hours agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 91 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
55 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add search --transport http https://mcp-marketplace.io/api/mcp/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search": {
      "url": "https://mcp-marketplace.io/api/mcp/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.search]
url = "https://mcp-marketplace.io/api/mcp/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search": {
      "url": "https://mcp-marketplace.io/api/mcp/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search": {
      "url": "https://mcp-marketplace.io/api/mcp/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

categories
list_categories
List all MCP Marketplace categories with slug, name, description, and approved server count. Use the returned `slug` as the `category` filter in search_servers.
compare
compare
Compare 2-5 MCP servers side by side on the fields users actually decide on: security score, critical findings, pricing, transport mode, tool count, and install command availability. Use when a user is choosing between candidates from a search. Returns a structured comparison table plus a short per-field summary, so the agent can surface the important contrasts without a second pass over each server.
creator
creator_profile
List all MCP servers by a single creator, plus aggregate trust signals. Use to evaluate a publisher holistically: 'do they ship consistently?', 'what's their security track record?', 'are there other servers by the same author?'. Match is case-insensitive on display name. Returns aggregate stats (total servers, avg security score, grade distribution, critical-finding count) plus the per-server list.
recently
recently_added
List the most recently added MCP servers. Use for discovery: 'what's new', 'latest servers', 'servers from this week'. Optionally constrain to the last N days. Ordered by creation date descending. Each result carries the same security/risk/pricing fields as search_servers.
server
get_server
Fetch full details for a single MCP server by its slug. Returns description, install commands, security score/risk/findings, ratings, creator info, setup requirements (API keys/credentials the user will need), and the list of MCP tools the server exposes. The `security.critical_findings` array lists every severity=critical|high issue — you MUST show these to the user before recommending they install. Use this as the last step before any install recommendation.
servers
search_servers
Search the MCP Marketplace catalog. With a free-text `query` and default `sort`, results are ranked by semantic similarity (gte-small embeddings + cosine similarity), so natural-language queries like 'manage my calendar', 'something to read PDFs', or 'database for my agent' work as well as keyword searches. Each result includes `security_score` (0-10), `risk_level` (low/moderate/high/critical), `critical_findings` (count of severity=critical|high findings), pricing, rating, install count, and a URL. `ranking_mode` in the response indicates whether semantic or keyword matching was used. Before recommending an install, call get_server for full details including every flagged finding — critical_findings > 0 means the server has known security issues you must surface to the user.
similar
similar_to
Find MCP servers that are semantically similar to a reference server. Use when a user picked a candidate but wants alternatives — e.g. 'like this but safer', 'like this but free', 'what else does this'. Reuses the catalog's gte-small embeddings: the reference server's embedding is the query vector. Returns servers sorted by cosine similarity (highest first), excluding the reference itself. Each result carries the same security/risk/pricing fields as search_servers so callers can immediately compare on `security_score`, `has_critical_findings`, and pricing.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp-marketplace.io/api/mcp/mcp streamable-http answering 55 ms 7 min ago

MCP Marketplace — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can MCP Marketplace do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare, creator_profile, get_server, list_categories, recently_added, search_servers and 1 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is MCP Marketplace working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 55 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is MCP Marketplace still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
The registry lists MCP Marketplace as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect MCP Marketplace?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does MCP Marketplace need an API key?
No. MCP Marketplace completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.