# /smithery/servers

`POST /api/smithery/servers`

Price: 10 credits

Get one Smithery MCP server by its registry id. Returns the publisher and licence, the repository and homepage links, the hosted MCP endpoint and its last successful deployment, the domain-verification record, the connection config schema, and the full advertised tool, prompt and resource surface with each tool's input schema and behaviour hints.

## How to use it

Pass the id exactly as Smithery displays it — `exa` or `owner/name`; an npm-style `@owner/name` is a different string and does not resolve. Reach for this when you need what a server can actually do: `tools` carries every tool's name, description and JSON input schema, which is what you need before wiring a server into an agent, and `config_schema` says which credentials the caller must supply. `mcp_url` is present only for servers Smithery hosts; a listed-only server has a repository and no endpoint. The install count and relevance score that /smithery/servers/search returns are not repeated here. An unknown id comes back as 412, not an empty result.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `server` (string, required) — Smithery server id, either a bare name or owner/name, or the address of its Smithery page (examples: "exa", "simosphereai/simosphere-ai", "https://smithery.ai/server/exa"; minLength: 1)

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "SmitheryServerDetail")
- `id` (string, required)
- `url` (string, required)
- `name` (string, nullable)
- `namespace` (string, nullable)
- `alias` (string, nullable)
- `uuid` (string, nullable)
- `description` (string, nullable)
- `homepage` (string, nullable)
- `icon_url` (string, nullable)
- `repository_url` (string, nullable)
- `backlink_url` (string, nullable)
- `license` (string, nullable)
- `organization_id` (string, nullable)
- `mcp_url` (string, nullable)
- `run_tools_slug` (string, nullable)
- `created_at` (string, nullable)
- `last_deployed_at` (string, nullable)
- `verified` (boolean, nullable)
- `official` (boolean, nullable)
- `by_smithery` (boolean, nullable)
- `remote` (boolean, nullable)
- `unlisted` (boolean, nullable)
- `config_allows_empty` (boolean, nullable)
- `is_secure` (boolean, nullable)
- `config_schema` (object, nullable)
- `triggers` (array) (default: [])
- `tools` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "SmitheryTool")
  - `name` (string, required)
  - `display_name` (string, nullable)
  - `description` (string, nullable)
  - `task_support` (string, nullable)
  - `input_schema` (object, nullable)
  - `output_schema` (object, nullable)
  - `protocol_meta` (object, nullable)
  - `annotations` (object, nullable)
    - `@type` (string) (default: "SmitheryToolAnnotations")
    - `display_name` (string, nullable)
    - `read_only` (boolean, nullable)
    - `destructive` (boolean, nullable)
    - `idempotent` (boolean, nullable)
    - `open_world` (boolean, nullable)
- `prompts` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "SmitheryPrompt")
  - `name` (string, required)
  - `description` (string, nullable)
  - `arguments` (array) (default: [])
- `resources` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "SmitheryResource")
  - `uri` (string, required)
  - `name` (string, nullable)
  - `display_name` (string, nullable)
  - `mime_type` (string, nullable)
  - `description` (string, nullable)
- `verification` (object, nullable)
  - `@type` (string) (default: "SmitheryVerification")
  - `official` (boolean, nullable)
  - `homepage_host` (string, nullable)
  - `verification_value` (string, nullable)
  - `has_domain_proof` (boolean, nullable)
  - `has_backlink_proof` (boolean, nullable)
  - `backlink_url` (string, nullable)
  - `checked_at` (string, nullable)
  - `next_check_at` (string, nullable)
- `deployment` (object, nullable)
  - `@type` (string) (default: "SmitheryDeployment")
  - `deployment_type` (string, nullable)
  - `mcp_url` (string, nullable)
  - `upstream_url` (string, nullable)
  - `config_schema` (object, nullable)

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

The request body did not validate

What to do: Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.

- `detail` (array)
  - `loc` (array, required)
  - `msg` (string, required)
  - `type` (string, required)
  - `input` (any)
  - `ctx` (object)

### 408

The request ran past its time limit

What to do: Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.

### 412

No Smithery server carries this id. Confirm it with /smithery/servers/search

What to do: Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.

### 429

Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted

What to do: When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.

### 500

Something broke on our side

What to do: Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.

### 529

Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded

What to do: Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

## Response envelope

Success: Array of objects (may be empty if no results)

Error: Error may coexist with partial results if it occurs mid-execution. Check X-Error header and status code.

Every response carries these headers:

- `X-Error` — Error message text (present only on error)
- `X-Request-ID` — Unique request identifier
- `X-Execution-Time` — Execution time in seconds
- `X-Result-Count` — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
- `X-Total-Available-Results` — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
- `X-Warning` — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
- `X-Retry-After` — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.