Getting Started

Install Pharos CLI

One command to search, install, and manage every MCP server. Other registries list packages. Pharos gives you the tools to actually run them.

Unix / macOS / WSL / Git Bash

curl -fsSL https://getpharos.dev/install | sh

Windows PowerShell

irm https://getpharos.dev/install.ps1 | iex

Guide

How it works

1
Search
Search 127,000+ MCP servers across MCP.io, mcp.so, and Smithery. Filter by transport (stdio, SSE, HTTP), runtime, or license.
2
Install
pharos install <name> downloads the server, verifies its SHA-512 hash, and writes the config.
3
Connect
Pharos patches config files for 16 MCP clients (JSON, YAML, and TOML). Restart your agent and the new tools are available. No manual JSON editing.

Browse packages Read the docs Get the CLI

Watch the workflow

60 to 120 second screen recordings: search, import, audit, publish, agent discovery, inline OAuth.

1:24

Search the registry

1:18

Import a server

1:31

Audit dependencies

1:27

Publish a package

1:45

Agent finds a service

1:52

Inline OAuth

Read the CLI docs

133,002
Total Packages: 109
Total Downloads: 11
Pharos-Hosted: 7
Connected Registries

Packages synced from modelcontextprotocol.io, mcp.io, mcp.so, and Smithery — plus Pharos-hosted originals.

Why Pharos

One CLI, every MCP server.

The Pharos CLI is a single Go binary. No Node, no npx, no sandbox. Install it on any OS and you are searching, installing, and managing MCP servers in seconds. 33 commands, 3 connected registries.

Full version control.

Immutable versions. Lockfiles. Semantic version resolution. Dependency graphs with circular detection. The same guarantees npm gives you for JavaScript packages, applied to MCP servers.

Agents discover, install, and maintain.

The Agent SDK and Pharos-Discovery MCP server let AI agents search the registry, evaluate options, request user consent, install, connect, and update MCP servers. Agents do not just install. They discover, auto-connect, and manage the full lifecycle.

In-chat OAuth.

MCP Apps integration means OAuth flows happen inline, in the chat. No browser redirects, no copy-paste tokens. The agent opens the flow, polls the callback, and stores the token.

Every registry, one search.

Pharos aggregates 127,000+ packages from MCP.io, mcp.so, and Smithery with full attribution to the original source. Search once, see everything, install from any registry.

Catalog

Popular Packages

test-echo-server

a test MCP server with echo, reverse, and toUpper tools

com.invokera/world-time

World Time

Current time in any IANA time zone, plus the full time-zone list. Via timeapi.io.

ev4nv-models

Enhanced Vision for Non-Vision Models — MCP server with two tools (vision_audit, vision_check) that give non-vision LLMs detailed image analysis capabilities via configurable vision model backends.

test-transitive-server

simple transitive test server

io.github.malamutemayhem/openmeteo

Open-Meteo Weather MCP by UnClick

Open-Meteo Weather tools for weather, forecast, open-meteo by UnClick.

io.github.j0hanz/filesystem-mcp

Filesystem MCP

Secure filesystem MCP server for reading, writing, searching, diffing, and patching files.