I can't wait for first-party remote MCP servers to become more common. Right now we're taking a strange detour of everyone trying to proxy everyone else's APIs and do manual API Key juggling because platforms aren't running their own MCP servers and clients don't support the latest OAuth changes.

In a year from now, Github will run a single public Github MCP server that you will connect to via OAuth - you won't need to install it locally or faff around with tokens or environment variables at all.

Instead of connecting to a server with 1000(s) of tools, I'm going the opposite direction and claim that you only need <10 sharp tools/small function for most use cases.

As an example, today I re-implemented Google's AlphaEvolve with <7 tools (https://toolkami.com/alphaevolve-toolkami-style/).

I’ve been seeing MCP compared to extensions in web browsers. Which I find telling, since I wouldn’t exactly say web extensions have been a great success - it’s a pretty niche dev market, and the security posture remains pretty anxiety inducing

Here are a few more:

- https://smithery.ai/

- https://github.com/wong2/awesome-mcp-servers

- http://mcp.so/servers

- https://cursor.directory/mcp

But as mentioned above, there is an ongoing discussion for the Anthropic registry https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry

There's a big market opportunity here. Countless SAAS solutions are currently trying to figure out how to deal with this new AI thing. If it has some kind of API, creating an MCP server for it isn't technically hard. You can probably generate one with an LLM. It's so easy that you wonder why this is a thing at all. Let the LLMs sort it out; this is low level plumbing stuff it shouldn't require my brain to work hard.

What is hard is integrating across SAAS solutions that haven't done this yet in a way that is secure and easy. Most MCP things out there are so far about exposing things that have a very low value. All the high value stuff is locked up behind APIs, authorization, secure networking (i.e. not publicly accessible typically), etc.

Bridging that stuff is going to generate a lot of work in the next few years and more importantly, companies are going to spend large amounts of money on this because it can deliver a lot of value to them.

People that believe that this is going to be a done deal in six months are dreaming. It's more like ten years. But that just means that there is good money to be made by people that can do this stuff and that can navigate the decades of byzantine digital cruft in the corporate world. You can already see the usual suspects (big consultancy companies) sniffing around this topic. There will be lots of such companies doing a brisk business by the end of this year.