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  "markdown": "Co-founder; Arcade migration contact.\n\nAnirudh Kamath co-founded Smithery, a public registry and hosting service for MCP servers. He joined Arcade.dev when it acquired Smithery in August 2026, and in October 2026 he wrote the notice shutting down Smithery's MCP proxy and managed identity services, leaving smithery.ai as a public registry run by Arcade.\n\n- X: https://x.com/kamathematic\n\n## What Anirudh builds\n\n- [Smithery](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smithery.md), graded D, 51/100, in Agent tool access. Smithery is a hosted registry and connection service for MCP servers, part of Arcade.dev since August 2026. Agents search the registry, create connections and call tools through a REST API, a per-namespace MCP endpoint, a TypeScript client or a CLI. Co-founder; Arcade migration contact, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Arjun Kumar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/arjun-kumar/), Founding engineer; now building Tardigrade\n- [Gurdas Nijor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gurdas-nijor/), Listed founding engineer\n- [Henry Mao](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/henry-mao/), Co-founder; former CEO, now building Tardigrade\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Anirudh Kamath?\n\nAnirudh Kamath co-founded Smithery, a public registry and hosting service for MCP servers. He joined Arcade.dev when it acquired Smithery in August 2026, and in October 2026 he wrote the notice shutting down Smithery's MCP proxy and managed identity services, leaving smithery.ai as a public registry run by Arcade.\n\n### What does Smithery (Arcade.dev) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Smithery from Smithery (Arcade.dev). Smithery is a hosted registry and connection service for MCP servers, part of Arcade.dev since August 2026. Agents search the registry, create connections and call tools through a REST API, a per-namespace MCP endpoint, a TypeScript client or a CLI.\n\n### How are Anirudh's tools graded?\n\nSmithery is graded D, 51 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://smithery.ai/about\n- https://smithery.ai/future\n- https://x.com/kamathematic\n- https://x.com/Calclavia\n- https://x.com/arjunkmrm\n- https://x.com/gnijor\n- https://smithery.ai/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/company/smithery-ai\n- https://smithery.ai/docs\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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