CuratedMCP
Cross-vendor MCP governance · The control plane Anthropic and Cursor won't ship

One allowlist. Every AI client. Every developer.

Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and Copilot each ship MCP support that stops at “edit a JSON file on your laptop.” That doesn't scale past one developer. CuratedMCP is the cross-vendor governance plane — one URL controls every developer's MCP catalog, every tool call is logged, and revoking access is a single click.

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Reference architecture

Uber built this in-house. You don't have to.

Uber's engineering org published their MCP strategy in May 2026: a centralized gateway and registry, RBAC, audit logs, PII redaction, and standardized tool definitions. It's the right pattern — and it took them months of platform-engineering time to build. CuratedMCP ships the same pattern as a product. You get 80% of what Uber built in 10 minutes, for $500/month.

CapabilityUber's custom buildCuratedMCP Registry
Centralized MCP registry & gatewayCustom Go serviceShips today, $500/mo
Pre-vetted server catalog with risk classificationBuilt from scratch69+ servers, day one
Cross-IDE (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot)Internal agentic focus onlyEvery MCP client
RBAC + audit logBuilt in-houseStarter plan and up
Internal server auto-generationCustom toolingProfessional plan — request listing
PII redaction gatewayGo-based GenAI gatewayEnterprise — Q3 2026 preview
Engineering cost to maintain~$500k+/yr$0 — managed service

Reference: Uber Engineering on MCP at scale · We track and ship the same pattern, on a multi-tenant SaaS budget.

Emerging use case · Autonomous agents

Your developers aren't the only ones calling MCP tools

Platforms like HyperAgent, Crew AI, and AutoGen are now running autonomous agents that make MCP tool calls 24/7 — no human in the loop, no manual review, hundreds of calls per hour. Without a governance layer, there's no inventory of which tools those agents touched, no way to revoke access if a pipeline goes rogue, and no audit trail for your security team.

CuratedMCP works for agents the same way it works for developers: the agent authenticates with a scoped API key, sees only the servers on your allowlist, and every call is logged. Revoke the key from the dashboard and the agent stops on its next request — no code changes, no deployment.

Strategic Brief · April 2026

Every enterprise adopting AI assistants needs MCP governance. Most don't have it yet.

In the last twelve months, Model Context Protocol went from a niche spec Anthropic open-sourced in late 2024 to the de facto plugin standard shipped by Claude, OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Google, Cursor, and Windsurf. Every AI assistant inside your organization is now a potential tool-caller, and every MCP server is a potential privileged actor with access to GitHub, Stripe, Slack, and your databases.

The governance gap this has opened is the same gap that package managers created in the 2010s — except faster, with more sensitive credentials, and with fewer adults in the room. npm, PyPI, and Docker Hub were eventually corralled by private registries, SBOMs, and supply-chain scanning. MCP is ten years behind that curve and moving ten times faster.

CuratedMCP Private Registry is the missing control plane. It does for MCP what Artifactory did for binaries and what GitHub Enterprise did for source code: one authenticated endpoint, one approved catalog, one audit trail, one place to revoke access when someone leaves. It is what your compliance team will demand by the end of 2026, and what your developers will thank you for shipping in Q2.

What breaks without a registry

Three failure modes we see in every organization that adopts AI assistants at scale without governance.

73%

of developers using AI assistants install MCP servers without IT approval

Shadow MCP is already in your org

Every Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf user can pull any MCP server from GitHub in 30 seconds — with no scanning, no approval, and no inventory.

$4.88M

average cost of a credential-related breach (IBM 2024)

Production credentials leak into developer laptops

MCP servers run locally with engineer-provided tokens. GitHub admin scopes, Stripe keys, and database passwords end up in plaintext config files on personal machines.

0

audit records exist for tool calls made through most MCP deployments

SOC 2 and ISO 27001 auditors are already asking

"Show me every data access your AI assistants made last quarter." If the answer is a shrug, the finding goes in the report.

The Product

Six controls you get on day one

Everything a platform engineering team needs to make MCP safe for the rest of the org. No glue code required.

A single source of truth

Publish an approved catalog of MCP servers your org has vetted. Engineers subscribe to one URL — your registry — and pick only from what you've allowed.

API-key authenticated access

Every workstation, CI runner, or hosted agent pulls from your registry with a scoped, revocable API key. Rotate in a click when an engineer leaves.

Role-based access control

OWNER / ADMIN / MEMBER roles. Invite by email, delegate administration, transfer ownership. No shared credentials.

Audit log for every request

Every manifest fetch, every key rotation, every membership change. Exportable to your SIEM. Retention scales with plan, up to 7 years for compliance.

Security-reviewed server catalog

Curate only servers that pass our automated security scan — or upload your own internal MCP servers. No more copy-pasting configs from random GitHub repos.

Works with Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot

One manifest, every client. Point each editor at your registry URL and employees get the approved toolset on day one.

Priced for the value, not per-seat

A single registry supports your whole engineering org. No gotcha per-user fees that punish adoption.

Starter

For focused teams piloting AI governance

$500/month
Up to 20 members
10 approved servers
  • Private registry with RBAC
  • API key management
  • Email support
  • 30-day audit log retention
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Professional

For engineering orgs scaling AI adoption

$1,500/month
Up to 100 members
Unlimited servers
  • Everything in Starter
  • Full audit logs (365-day retention)
  • SIEM webhook export
  • SSO via SAML / OIDC
  • Priority support (4-hour SLA)
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Enterprise

For regulated industries and Fortune 1000

Custom
Unlimited members
Unlimited + private servers
  • Everything in Professional
  • 7-year audit retention (SOC 2, HIPAA)
  • White-label / custom domain
  • Dedicated CSM + 1-hour SLA
  • SOC 2 Type II report on request
  • Master service agreement & DPA
  • Procurement-friendly invoicing
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All plans include 14-day free trial. Annual billing saves 15%. Volume discounts at 500+ seats.

The Business Case

The math for a 200-engineer org

Without a registry
  • ~6 hours/quarter of platform-eng time per engineer chasing MCP issues
  • 1–2 credential rotation fire-drills per year (~$40K each in lost productivity)
  • Unquantifiable exposure when a developer leaves with active MCP servers
  • SOC 2 audit finding, remediation cycle, re-certification delay
With CuratedMCP Professional
  • $18K/year — one platform engineer's time for a week, fully paid back
  • One-click key revocation replaces multi-hour rotation drills
  • Audit-ready control activity log for every tool call, every quarter
  • Off-boarding becomes a checkbox, not a project

A single avoided incident pays for three years of Enterprise.

From zero to governed in 30 days

No RFP required. No heroic migration. Here's the rollout we've seen work best.

Step 1
Day 0

Sign up, create your registry

10 minutes. Invite your platform team. Import the approved catalog.

Step 2
Day 1

Pilot with one team

Issue API keys to a small group. Point their Claude / Cursor / Windsurf config at your registry URL.

Step 3
Week 2

Review audit logs

See exactly which servers are pulled, by whom, and how often. Prune what's unused.

Step 4
Month 1

Roll out org-wide

Publish internal MCP servers. Disable direct GitHub installs via endpoint policy. Ship a compliance-ready AI governance story.

Frequently asked questions

How is this different from the public CuratedMCP marketplace?

The public marketplace is a discovery site — anyone can browse. A private registry is a tenanted, authenticated endpoint for your org only. Your employees pull from your catalog, with your approvals, under your audit trail.

Can we self-host?

Hosted is the default, but Enterprise plan includes an on-premise option for regulated environments (SOC 2, HIPAA, GovCloud). Same registry protocol, your infrastructure.

Do we have to use only servers from CuratedMCP's catalog?

No. Add any MCP server by URL — including internal servers you've built in-house. The registry is a control plane, not a walled garden.

Is the audit log enough for SOC 2 Type II?

The audit log captures the control activity our compliance consultant's clients have needed. We'll provide a sample and our own SOC 2 Type II report on request for Enterprise plans.

How does billing work for procurement?

Monthly or annual invoicing, NET-30, PO-friendly. We integrate with Stripe for card-based billing on Starter / Professional, and wire/ACH for Enterprise.

What happens when an engineer leaves?

Revoke their API key from the dashboard. Their local editor stops pulling from your registry the next time it refreshes. No credentials on their laptop ever touched your production data directly.

Ship AI governance before your auditor asks.

Start a free trial today, or book a 30-minute call with our team to walk through the architecture and pricing for your org.