concierge-hq/concierge

Concierge aims to be the 'Express.js' for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), providing a developer-friendly abstraction over the base MCP specification released by Anthropic. With nearly 500 stars in roughly six months, it has captured early interest from the agentic developer community. However, its defensibility is currently low (score: 4) because it primarily provides syntactic sugar and boilerplate reduction for a protocol controlled by a frontier lab (Anthropic). The primary risk is 'Sherlocking'—if Anthropic or Google (via Gemini tools) enhances their official SDKs to include the high-level features Concierge offers (like automatic schema generation or simplified server orchestration), the need for a third-party wrapper diminishes. The project's current velocity of 0.0/hr suggests a potential stagnation in community contributions or a shift in focus. While it facilitates rapid prototyping, it lacks a deep technical moat or proprietary data gravity. To move up the defensibility scale, Concierge would need to offer a hosted orchestration layer or a marketplace of pre-built, high-quality connectors that create a network effect, rather than just being a code-level utility.