# Smithery

> Smithery is a registry and gateway for MCP servers and agent skills that handles hosted OAuth and persistent connections; the service itself is proprietary, while its CLI at smithery-ai/cli is AGPL-3.0.

MCP server registry and gateway with managed OAuth and persistence.

- **Category:** MCP & Tooling
- **License:** Proprietary (service); CLI is AGPL-3.0
- **Language:** TypeScript (CLI)
- **Self-hosted:** No
- **GitHub stars:** 840 (2026-10-04)
- **Repository:** https://github.com/smithery-ai/cli
- **Last verified:** 2026-10-04

> Caveat: A claim that Smithery was acquired by Arcade.dev in August 2026 had only a single source and is unverified.

Source: https://agent.c8.fit/tools/smithery/