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@subbyte subbyte commented Sep 23, 2025

Creating a one-page cheat sheet for various MCP registry users:

  1. MCP server user
  2. MCP server developer
  3. MCP subregistry admin

Motivation and Context

MCP registry is a project for multiple sets of users, e.g., MCP server publisher, MCP server consumer. For each type of users, there are multiple pointers/references in documentations to follow.

It will be beneficial to have a cheat sheet that describes what are the spaces of docs, organizes the spaces, and provides references to detailed docs/guides/references. With such cheat sheet, new users would quickly navigate in different spaces and find what commands and docs they need.

A picture is worth a thousand words, and it's best to have a cheat sheet with some type of visualization of personas and actions. To make the sheet succinct and editable, we'd better use well defined vector graphs with substructures for easy editing/extending. So I create the cheat sheet with TeX and PGF/TikZ.

How Has This Been Tested?

The compilation of the cheat sheet is tested both locally (MacTeX-2025) and on overleaf with no error/warning.

Types of changes

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Documentation update

Checklist

  • I have read the MCP Documentation
  • My code follows the repository's style guidelines
  • New and existing tests pass locally
  • I have added appropriate error handling
  • I have added or updated documentation as needed

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Appreciate the spirit of this PR! Though I'm not sure about the mechanism -- our intent is to (eventually) merge all these docs into https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/tree/main/docs and the Mintlify setup there, so anything beyond markdown files we add here would need to play nicely with Mintlify. So I would prefer that we stick to simple markdown files for now, but open to hearing other opinions.

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subbyte commented Sep 24, 2025

Good to hear the Minitlify version of doc is planned. I would be happy to help if you need ideas about organizing the docs or like the figures I created. We can easily publish the figure in svg or png for markdown use while keeping the source in TikZ for editablity.

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I've been thinking, and I think this would be ideal for the recently added community resources section?

You could spin this out into your own repo like subbyte/mcp-registry-cheatsheet and then link it from here?

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subbyte commented Oct 1, 2025

Thanks for the advise @domdomegg ! Will create another PR to add a line in community-projects.md.

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Superceded by #600

@domdomegg domdomegg closed this Oct 2, 2025
domdomegg pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 2, 2025
<!-- Provide a brief summary of your changes -->
Add the MCP registry cheat sheet project link in
`/docs/community-projects.md`

## Motivation and Context
<!-- Why is this change needed? What problem does it solve? -->
It will be beneficial to have a cheat sheet that describes what are the
spaces of docs, organizes the spaces, and provides references to
detailed docs/guides/references. With such cheat sheet, new users would
quickly navigate in different spaces and find what commands and docs
they need.

More discussion at #540 

## How Has This Been Tested?
<!-- Have you tested this in a real application? Which scenarios were
tested? -->
No test needed.

## Types of changes
<!-- What types of changes does your code introduce? Put an `x` in all
the boxes that apply: -->
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to change)
- [x] Documentation update

## Checklist
<!-- Go over all the following points, and put an `x` in all the boxes
that apply. -->
- [x] I have read the [MCP
Documentation](https://modelcontextprotocol.io)
- [x] My code follows the repository's style guidelines
- [x] New and existing tests pass locally
- [ ] I have added appropriate error handling
- [x] I have added or updated documentation as needed
slimslenderslacks pushed a commit to slimslenderslacks/registry that referenced this pull request Dec 18, 2025
<!-- Provide a brief summary of your changes -->
Add the MCP registry cheat sheet project link in
`/docs/community-projects.md`

## Motivation and Context
<!-- Why is this change needed? What problem does it solve? -->
It will be beneficial to have a cheat sheet that describes what are the
spaces of docs, organizes the spaces, and provides references to
detailed docs/guides/references. With such cheat sheet, new users would
quickly navigate in different spaces and find what commands and docs
they need.

More discussion at modelcontextprotocol#540 

## How Has This Been Tested?
<!-- Have you tested this in a real application? Which scenarios were
tested? -->
No test needed.

## Types of changes
<!-- What types of changes does your code introduce? Put an `x` in all
the boxes that apply: -->
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to change)
- [x] Documentation update

## Checklist
<!-- Go over all the following points, and put an `x` in all the boxes
that apply. -->
- [x] I have read the [MCP
Documentation](https://modelcontextprotocol.io)
- [x] My code follows the repository's style guidelines
- [x] New and existing tests pass locally
- [ ] I have added appropriate error handling
- [x] I have added or updated documentation as needed
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