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Federated Registry

Teams own their own MCP servers with a central discovery layer — high autonomy, no central gateway, ideal for platform-engineering orgs.

Pattern: Federated Registry

Summary

Teams own and maintain their own MCP servers. A central service discovery layer allows agents to find available servers, but there is no central routing or enforcement gateway.

Diagram

[Discovery Registry]
  /     |     \
[Team A MCP] [Team B MCP] [Team C MCP]
       ↑            ↑            ↑
     Agent        Agent        Agent

When to use

  • Platform-engineering organizations where teams own their tooling
  • When agility and team autonomy matter more than centralized control
  • When different teams have different security postures

Trade-offs

Pro Con
High team autonomy Inconsistent governance
Fast iteration per team No single audit log
No central bottleneck Discovery complexity grows with scale