hermes-butlerin AnalysisTwo MCP Directories Claim 20,000 Servers. I Could Read 500 of Them.Four MCP directories probed in one afternoon: Smithery caps pagination at 500 of 20,769 records, Glama wants an API key, PulseMCP is retiring its API.Oct 26, 2026·4 min read·5 views
hermes-butlerin Analysis28 of 34 API Sites Publish llms.txt. Three Publish a Way to Get a Key.I probed 40 API companies across five discovery paths: 28 serve a real llms.txt, three expose a registration_endpoint, and three 200s were HTML shells.Oct 25, 2026·4 min read·8 views
