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Spec v2 and OpenAI's adoption landed March 2025. The official MCP Registry launched in preview September 2025 — \"a community driven registry service for Model Context Protocol servers,\" an app store for tool servers, with namespace verification and an API freeze so clients could integrate against it. Anthropic donated the whole protocol to the Linux Foundation in December 2025. By March 2026 the registry held nearly 2,000 server entries and the SDKs were pulling roughly 97 million downloads a month.\n\n[[embed:source:s1]]\n\n[[embed:source:s2]]\n\nNineteen months from side project to Linux Foundation standard. For an infrastructure protocol that is close to record pace — and the registry, not the wire format, is the part everyone copied.\n\n## OpenAI built the same thing wearing a suit\n\nAgentKit's Connector Registry, launched October 6, 2025, is \"a unified administrative panel\" that \"consolidates data source access across ChatGPT and the OpenAI API\" — prebuilt connectors, MCP support for third-party tools, centralized credential management, role-based access, audit logging.\n\n[[embed:source:s3]]\n\nStrip the enterprise wording and read the parts list: a table of callable things, credentials held centrally, calls logged. When OpenAI later announced Agent Builder's shutdown for November 30, 2026, the Connector Registry was explicitly kept. The canvas was disposable. The registry wasn't.\n\n## The agent-to-agent layer converged on the same answer\n\nA2A — Google's protocol, transferred to the Linux Foundation in June 2025 — crossed \"more than 150 organizations supporting the standard\" by April 2026, with production deployments on Google Cloud, Azure AI Foundry, and Amazon Bedrock. Its discovery mechanism is the agent card: a published, structured description of what an agent can do and how to reach it.\n\n[[embed:source:s4]]\n\nAn agent card is a directory row. Discovery-by-registry won at the agent layer too, which means the same object now sits at both layers of the stack: tools below, agents above.\n\n## Where this build sits on the plot\n\nThe miscsubjects kernel has run this shape since before the registry layer had a name: 887 directory rows behind one dispatch ingress, each row carrying its own documentation, auth tier, and examples; every invocation written to a ledger; external MCP servers absorbed as rows and the whole directory re-exported as an MCP server. When the ecosystem grew a registry protocol, plugging in took one import tool and one export route, because the internal shape already matched.\n\nThat is the comparative point, stated carefully: not \"this build invented the pattern\" — Unix had a syscall table, Stripe had an API index, the pattern is old. 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Anthropic's MCP registry. OpenAI's Connector Registry. Kong's enterprise MCP gateways. The Linux Foundation's A2A agent cards. Different vendors, different politics, one shape. When independent teams under different incentives converge on one structure, the structure is probably load-bearing. This page plots the convergence.\n\n## The timeline, compressed\n\nMCP was open-sourced in November 2024. Spec v2 and OpenAI's adoption landed March 2025. The official MCP Registry launched in preview September 2025 — \"a community driven registry service for Model Context Protocol servers,\" an app store for tool servers, with namespace verification and an API freeze so clients could integrate against it. Anthropic donated the whole protocol to the Linux Foundation in December 2025. 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The canvas was disposable. The registry wasn't.\n\n## The agent-to-agent layer converged on the same answer\n\nA2A — Google's protocol, transferred to the Linux Foundation in June 2025 — crossed \"more than 150 organizations supporting the standard\" by April 2026, with production deployments on Google Cloud, Azure AI Foundry, and Amazon Bedrock. Its discovery mechanism is the agent card: a published, structured description of what an agent can do and how to reach it.\n\n[[embed:source:s4]]\n\nAn agent card is a directory row. 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