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Kubernetes-Native Agent Discovery: A Unified Registry for MCP Servers and Skills - Carlos Santana, AWS#

MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 digest Program Core pick 2–3 April 2026

Abstract

Carlos Santana, Sr. Kubernetes Specialist SA, AWS

  • Why: As agents enter Kubernetes clusters, hardcoded MCP endpoints and skill definitions become the new brittleness — this proposes the K8s-native answer using familiar primitives.
  • What: A cluster-scoped registry that exposes both MCP servers and Skills through a unified API, built with CRDs and proven service-discovery patterns, so agents can query available capabilities by metadata, handle lifecycle changes gracefully, and dynamically assemble their toolset based on cluster state; includes a working implementation demo (from abstract only).
  • How: CRDs representing MCP servers and Skills as first-class cluster objects, plus Kubernetes service-discovery patterns applied to agent capability discovery.
  • Where applicable: Kubernetes environments where services scale and evolve continuously; AWS SA-led but blueprint-style and generalizable to any cluster; treats MCP servers and Skills as complementary discovery targets.