# Welcome
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 AWS Agent Registry is a managed catalog for publishing and discovering resources such as MCP servers, agents, and agent skills. Agent Registry Control is its control-plane API: use it to create and manage registries and the records they contain, configure discovery and authorization, govern record approval and curation workflows, and manage automatic detection of resources. Data-plane search and MCP invocation operations are provided by the companion Agent Registry API.

This document was last published on August 28, 2026. 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AgentRegistry Control Plane API Reference. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query agent-registry-control` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).