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  "markdown": "Co-founder; former CEO, now building Tardigrade.\n\n- X: https://x.com/Calclavia\n\n## What Henry 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; former CEO, now building Tardigrade, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Anirudh Kamath](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/anirudh-kamath/), Co-founder; Arcade migration contact\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\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Henry Mao?\n\nHenry Mao is co-founder; former CEO of now building Tardigrade.\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 Henry'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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