Smithery

A marketplace indexing thousands of MCP servers, each with a hosted URL you can paste into any host app.

Pick this when

The built-in connector directory doesn't have what you need — which is most of the time, because it's curated and small.

What makes it different

Reliability rating and user count on every listing — the cheapest available trust signal

Per-host install instructions, so 'add this to Claude' is copy-and-paste

Breadth: the long tail of niche tools nobody's first party will ever ship

Indexes community and vendor MCP servers with ratings and usage counts

Provides hosted server URLs ready to paste as custom connectors

Shows what permissions a server requests before you install it

Common wrong expectations

Doesn't vouch for anything — these aren't first-party, so the trust check is yours

Doesn't host every server itself (the BC5 Sheets MCP was served via Composio)

The discovery step whenever a workflow needs a tool the host app doesn't ship.

Shelf

MCP & connectors · Marketplaces & directories

Our status · watch

Nothing needed yet, but it's the first stop if the pipeline ever wants a service-specific server.

For your projects

Worth a search for a WordPress/Elementor server if LWP edits from chat ever become interesting — same pattern as the BC5 Sheets demo.

Freshness

current

composio: hosts several of the servers Smithery lists

claude-desktop-mcp: paste the URL as a custom connector

Session	Coverage	Moment	What happened
Basecamp 5: MCP	demonstrated	2:02:51	MCP marketplace browsed live; per-MCP Claude install instructions with hosted URL