Discovery & Registry Overview
The Discovery & Registry tier gives you visibility into your AI infrastructure — answering the question: "What agents and MCP servers are running in my environment?"
Services
| Service | Purpose |
|---|---|
| wl-registry | Centralized catalog of AI agents and MCP servers |
| wl-registry-frontend | Registry dashboard with topology visualization |
| wl-discover | Network scanner and agent framework detector |
| PostgreSQL | Database backend |
| OpenBao | Secret management (optional — eval profile only; production uses external secret providers) |
| Caddy | TLS reverse proxy (optional — not required for production deployments) |
What You Get
- Automatic discovery of MCP servers and AI agents across Docker networks
- Trust state management — move servers through unverified, trusted, quarantined, and revoked states
- Container security metadata — privileged mode, capabilities, rootfs, network mode, and 6 automatic risk signals
- Multi-tier agent detection — weighted heuristic scoring for LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, LangChain
- Config presets — Enterprise Standard, High Security, and Lightweight/Development detection profiles
- Interactive topology — visual graph of agent-server connections
- OIDC/LDAP authentication — secure dashboard access with your identity provider
Architecture
Next Steps
- Beacon Installer — Install and deploy Beacon
- Registry Concepts — Servers, scanners, trust states
- Discovery Configuration — Tune scanning behavior
- Docker & Agent Detection — Container security and agent framework detection