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Manufact is a platform for deploying, testing, observing, and publishing MCP servers and MCP apps. It is built by the creators of the open-source mcp-use framework and MCP Inspector, and covers the lifecycle after code is written: getting an MCP endpoint into production, checking how it behaves across AI clients, debugging traffic, and preparing marketplace submissions.

Core capabilities include MCP Hosting with GitHub-native builds, branch preview URLs, managed TLS and custom domains, environments and secrets, and framework detection for the mcp-use SDK, MCP TypeScript and Python SDKs, FastMCP, tmcpx, mcp, and Skybridge, plus Dockerfile-based stacks. Cross-client testing runs the same scenarios across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini with LLM-judged results that can gate CI. Publishing checks cover protocol, tool conformance, security, metadata, and domain requirements for the ChatGPT Apps Store and Claude Cloud Connectors, with fix guidance and a generated submission pack. Cloud Inspector provides tool invocation, resource browsing, JSON-RPC logging, and widget preview; Analytics covers tool calls, sessions, error rates, latency percentiles, and traffic breakdowns by client, version, protocol, and country, with session replay. OAuth is supported through Auth0, Better Auth, Clerk, Keycloak, Supabase, WorkOS, and custom providers.

Manufact is aimed at developers and teams building MCP servers and apps for AI chat and coding agents, including those preparing for marketplace distribution. The mcp-use SDKs are open source under MIT. The platform offers a Hobby plan and above, with branch previews available on that tier; Enterprise options are also available.

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