Model Context Protocol standardizes how AI runtimes discover tools, resources, and prompts from external servers. In practical terms, MCP gives you a typed RPC boundary between your model runtime and operational systems such as internal APIs, databases, billing services, and retrieval layers.
For registry-driven discovery, MCP matters because server configuration should not live exclusively in per-IDE local files. Teams need a canonical source of truth for server identity, capability surface, transport details, ownership metadata, and trust posture. The HOL registry addresses this by indexing MCP server metadata into a searchable catalog.
On this hub, the browse section is intentionally pre-filtered to MCP-compatible records. That keeps results relevant for integration engineers and helps external references link directly to intent-specific discovery routes instead of generic search pages.