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Observal/Observal

Observal is self-hosted registry for your coding agent extensions with a built in insight engine. Setup Observal, define the scope and share your Skills, MCPs and Agents with your peers. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/Observal/Observal · homepage · Python · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

80/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 96
  • Longevity 11

Flags: young

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 1
  • age_days: 156
  • days_rel: 24
  • days_push: 8
  • n_releases_24m: 42

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2355 stars · 472 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Observal is a self-hosted registry and control plane for coding agent extensions such as Skills, MCP servers, and Agents, with a built-in insight engine for observing agent traffic and configs. It consists of a Docker Compose server stack (API, web UI, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis) and a per-developer CLI.

Use cases

  • run a team-wide registry of MCP servers and agent skills
  • observe and debug MCP traffic from coding agents
  • share agent configurations across harnesses like Claude Code and Cursor
  • self-host a private registry for AI coding agent extensions
  • track which agent components are outdated across a team
  • debug agent failures with session tracking and reconciliation

When to choose

  • your team shares MCP servers, skills, or agent configs and needs a single source of record
  • you want self-hosted control over agent component distribution and usage insights
  • you use multiple coding agent harnesses (Claude Code, Cursor, Kiro, Copilot) and need consistent configs

When to avoid

  • you are a solo developer with no need to share agent components across a team
  • you only need a public MCP marketplace rather than a private self-hosted registry
  • you cannot operate a Docker Compose stack with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and Redis

Facets

service · maturity active

mcp agent-framework analytics developer-tools cli self-hosted developer-tools large-language-models self-hosted analytics self-hosted cli python agent-registry mcp-registry skills-registry claude-code cursor insights-engine control-plane teamspaces ai-agents docker web-server

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