AGNTCY Dir v0.5.0 Release Notes

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🚀 AGNTCY Dir v0.5.0 Release

We're excited to announce the release of AGNTCY Dir v0.5.0 which focuses on
extending API functionalities, improving operational reliability, strengthening security
capabilities, and adding MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations support, including:

🌟 What's New

MCP Integrations

• MCP registry importer for automated OASF record ingestion
• MCP server implementation with OASF and Directory tools
• Added support for MCP server announce and discovery via DHT

API & Client Improvements

• Event listener RPC for real-time updates across services
• gRPC connection management and streaming enhancements
• Rate limiting at application layer for improved stability
• Health checks migrated from HTTP to gRPC

Security & Reliability

• Simplified TLS-based authentication support for SDKs
• Panic recovery middleware and structured logging for gRPC
• Critical resource leak fixes and improved context handling
• Enhanced security scanning with CodeQL workflows

Developer Experience

• MCP tooling for easy record management and API access
• LLM-based enrichment for OASF records
• Simplified SDK integration in secure environments
• Unified CLI output formats with --output flag and JSONL support

📦 Component Compatibility Matrix

Component	Version	Compatible With
dir-apiserver	v0.5.0	oasf v0.3.x, v0.7.x, v0.8.x
dirctl	v0.5.0	dir-apiserver >= v0.5.0
dir-go	v0.5.0	dir-apiserver >= v0.5.0
dir-py	v0.5.0	dir-apiserver >= v0.5.0
dir-js	v0.5.0	dir-apiserver >= v0.5.0
helm-charts/dir	v0.5.0	dir-apiserver >= v0.5.0
helm-charts/dirctl	v0.5.0	dirctl >= v0.5.0

🚀 Getting Started

Installation

DIR API Server:

# Install Directory via Helm
helm install dir oci://ghcr.io/agntcy/dir/helm-charts/dir --version v0.5.0

DIRCTL:

# Download latest dirctl (multi-platform support)
curl -L https://github.com/agntcy/dir/releases/download/v0.5.0/dirctl-<platform> -o dirctl
chmod +x dirctl

# OR install via Homebrew (macOS/Linux)
brew tap agntcy/dir https://github.com/agntcy/dir/
brew install dirctl

DIR MCP Server

Language-specific SDKs

Quick Start Example

Check out the examples to get started with AGNTCY Directory.

🤝 Community & Support

• Changelog: Changelog
• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Milestones: GitHub Milestones
• Discussions: GitHub Discussions
• Documentation: docs.agntcy.org

🙏 Acknowledgments

Thank you to all contributors who made this release possible! Special thanks to the community for
feedback, bug reports, and feature requests that helped shape this release.

🔮 What's Next?

Stay tuned for upcoming features:

• Sync support for heterogeneous registries
• Production-ready API
• Directory MCP Server

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