Discovery MCP is the new App Store search
Humans browse MCP directories by brand and stars. Agents search by capability — scrape to markdown, Postgres, create_issue. Discovery MCP exposes the catalog as tools inside Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor.
Source: Influzer.ai
MCP directories look like app stores: grids, stars, logos. Agents do not shop that way. They search by capability — scrape URL to markdown, run Postgres query, create GitHub issue — and pick whichever server’s tools/list matches the job.
Influzer MCP Discovery (https://www.influzer.ai/mcp/discovery) turns the ~6,000-server catalog into read-only tools your agent can call: search_mcp_servers, recommend_mcp_servers, get_mcp_server, list_mcp_topics. Connect once from /mcp/discovery/setup.
What changes for authors:
- Tool names + descriptions are SEO for agents — verbs beat clever codenames
- Indexed
tools/listis inventory — ~7% of listings today; the rest is search-invisible - Topic lanes (browser automation, RAG, coding) map to
recommend_mcp_servers - Stars help humans; capability keywords win agent search
Why it matters: discovery is moving inside the chat. Directories that only optimize for scrolling lose to catalogs agents can query.
Setup intro: Search MCP without leaving your client. Full playbook: Discovery MCP is the new App Store search.