AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026

As MCP servers multiply, the ecosystem is hitting the fragmentation problem APIs hit a decade ago: every server is a point-to-point integration with no shared way to discover or describe it. Live introspection over a connected session does not scale to the catalogs, registries, and gateways that need to reason about thousands of servers without starting each one up. Open Resource Discovery (ORD) solved this for APIs, events, and data products. Each resource publishes a static, machine-readable description at a well-known endpoint. Aggregators crawl those descriptions and build catalogs that registries and gateways can query without connecting to the resource. Recent ORD work applies the same shape to agents and the MCP servers they depend on, scoping the dependency to the tools and prompts an agent uses. The same pattern fits MCP. The talk walks through a Server Card design that serves tools, prompts, and resources alongside metadata from a well-known endpoint, so registries and gateways can reason about a server before any agent connects. The design has been contributed into the open MCP community via SEP-2127, with a public renderer and playground demonstrating it end-to-end.