Gearlist

What Gearlist does

Gearlist gives MCP-compatible agents a searchable view of a directory covering AI agent tools, MCP servers, and agent skills. The catalog is source-checked at the documentation level: entries are checked against their published information, but they are not installed or audited by Gearlist.

The directory is particularly useful for evaluating access requirements before adopting a tool. Search results include notes about required keys, costs, and the data that may leave the user's machine. Individual entries also identify what was checked and when.

Gearlist is read-only. It does not install tools, modify catalog entries, or require an account to use its remote MCP server.

How it works

An MCP client sends requests to Gearlist's remote server, which searches or reads catalog data and returns structured results. search_gear matches terms across an entry's name, category, description, intended audience, and access notes, then orders results by match quality. Each returned entry includes its access notes, which should be shown to the human making the decision.

recommend_stack takes a natural-language description of a job and finds a short set of entries whose text shares the most words with that description. It spreads results across groups and quotes where each match occurs. Because the matching is word-based, recommendations still need to be checked for suitability.

The catalog can also be explored by category or by skill. Skill results include the command associated with installing each skill; the human should approve before an agent runs any such command.

Setup and configuration

Use Gearlist as a remote MCP server from an MCP-compatible client. No sign-in is needed, and the service is read-only.

Once connected, an agent can call the catalog tools directly. Installing a skill listed by list_skills is a separate action and requires human confirmation before execution.

Tools and capabilities

• search_gear searches source-checked tools, MCP servers, and skills by text across several catalog fields. Results are ordered by match and include access notes.
• get_gear retrieves one entry by the ID returned from search_gear, including the checks performed and their date.
• list_categories returns Gearlist's categories and the number of entries in each.
• list_skills lists published agent skills and the command used to install each one.
• recommend_stack proposes a short, cross-group set of entries for a described job and quotes the matching text.

The catalog's checks are documentation checks only. They do not establish that an entry was installed, tested, or independently audited.