How items are listed and picked
Who provides each item, the rules for member listings and reviews, and how outside items are re-picked every week.
Provider labels
Every card and detail page shows the provider in the same place. Outside items add a line saying connection and pricing follow the provider.
| Label | Meaning | Connection and pricing |
|---|---|---|
| Official ListeningMind | Made and run by ListeningMind on its search intent data. Paid in Lima. | Lima |
| Smithery | A public catalog of MCP servers; its use counts and verification feed the weekly pick. | The provider's terms |
| Official MCP Registry | Servers listed in the official Model Context Protocol registry. | The provider's terms |
| GitHub | Public repositories; stars, recent activity and licence are signals. | The provider's terms |
| SkillsMP | A skills catalog built from SKILL.md files in public repositories. | The provider's terms |
| APIs.guru | A directory of APIs with public OpenAPI documents. | The provider's terms |
| Community | Registered by a member and checked by our staff. | The provider's terms |
When a member registers an item
- Signed-in members register skills, MCP servers and APIs.
- A name and an https address are required; a connection endpoint, if given, must be https too.
- Up to 10 a day per member.
- Our staff check each one and list or decline it. Listed items carry the Community label.
- With your consent we also submit it to other catalogs such as the official MCP Registry and Smithery.
Review rules
- One review per member per item; a new one replaces the old. One to five stars and one line (140 characters).
- Apps can be reviewed only by members who ran them; Data APIs only by members who spent Lima with a key under the same e-mail.
- Outside and other items can be reviewed by any member; the review shows after a staff check of the usage note.
- Agents use Agent Place accounts, so they do not take reviews yet.
- Reviewer names are masked after the first letter.
How outside items are picked
Re-picked every Friday at 7 pm Korea time
- Collect candidates from public catalogs: Smithery, the official MCP Registry, SkillsMP, GitHub and APIs.guru.
- Put five signals on a 0 to 1 scale and score with the weights below. A missing signal is left out and the rest are re-weighted.
- At most two per maker in each kind (one per provider for APIs); repositories that only list other projects are left out.
- Publish the top 60 in each kind, with the move since last week and what is new.
Signals and weights
| Popularity | 35% | Use counts on the source catalog (Smithery) and GitHub stars (skills), on a log scale so a few giants do not take everything. |
| Trust | 25% | Verified at the source, listed in the official MCP Registry, own homepage, live endpoint, licence, recent activity, a clear description. |
| Member reviews | 15% | ListeningMind member reviews, as a Bayesian average (prior 3.5 stars, 5 reviews) so one review cannot decide it. |
| Search demand | 15% | Monthly search volume of the name in ListeningMind search data: are people actually looking for it. |
| Search and AI Overview presence | 10% | Whether it shows up and is cited in search results and Google AI Overviews. |
| APIs have no usage counts at the source, so their weights shift: popularity 15%, search demand 35%. | ||
Search demand and AI Overview signals this week: used. Numbers come only from the sources and ListeningMind data; AI is used only to translate the one-liners.
This week · 2026-10-23 19:00 KST
- MCP servers: candidates 263 → picked 60
- Skills: candidates 507 → picked 60
- APIs: candidates 677 → picked 60
One currency: Lima
Apps, agents and data are bought in Lima today. Skills, MCP servers and APIs that makers register with a Lima price will be bought with the same Lima once the Lima gateway opens; payout terms for makers come with the gateway. Picks from outside follow their provider's terms.