# Anirudh Kamath

> Anirudh Kamath is co-founder; Arcade migration contact. Smithery on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-27

Co-founder; Arcade migration contact.

Anirudh 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.

- X: https://x.com/kamathematic

## What Anirudh builds

- [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.

## Works with

- [Arjun Kumar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/arjun-kumar/), Founding engineer; now building Tardigrade
- [Gurdas Nijor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gurdas-nijor/), Listed founding engineer
- [Henry Mao](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/henry-mao/), Co-founder; former CEO, now building Tardigrade

## Questions

### Who is Anirudh Kamath?

Anirudh 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.

### What does Smithery (Arcade.dev) make?

Anchor 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.

### How are Anirudh's tools graded?

Smithery is graded D, 51 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://smithery.ai/about
- https://smithery.ai/future
- https://x.com/kamathematic
- https://x.com/Calclavia
- https://x.com/arjunkmrm
- https://x.com/gnijor
- https://smithery.ai/
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/smithery-ai
- https://smithery.ai/docs

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