AI REGISTRY VS DEVELOPER PORTAL
AI registry vs developer portal. Complementary layers.
Developer portals and IDPs catalogue software services. Joyst catalogues your skills, prompts, MCP servers, secrets and agents. Use both. Joyst sits beside Backstage and Port, not instead of them. It is a private team catalogue, not a marketplace.
TWO CATALOGUES
Two layers, two jobs
- What developer portals do
Software services, ownership, scorecards and the engineering catalogue. Backstage, Port, OpsLevel and Cortex do this well.
- What Joyst does
Skills, prompts, MCP servers, secrets and agents, written, versioned, shared and governed across the AI tools your teams already use.
- Two catalogues, side by side
Different catalogues for different jobs. Your IDP stays the record for software. Joyst is the private catalogue for your AI tools and content.
BESIDE YOUR IDP
Beside your IDP, not instead
- Keep Backstage, Port, OpsLevel or Cortex
Joyst does not replace Backstage, Port, OpsLevel or Cortex. They look after your software catalogue.
- Add a catalogue for AI
Even with a mature portal, skills, prompts, MCP servers, secrets and agents still arrive ad hoc. Joyst catalogues and governs them beside the IDP.
- Keep what works
Platform teams can keep the portal and still control their AI tools and content.
- Not a marketplace
A private catalogue for your organisation. No public skill store, no MCP marketplace and no attempt to do your developer portal’s job.
SIDE BY SIDE
Jobs, not feature wars
- The portal’s job
Service catalogue, ownership, DORA metrics, scorecards and developer self-service. That stays with your portal.
- Joyst’s job
A private catalogue for skills, prompts, MCP servers, secrets and agents, with permissions, versioning and an audit trail.
- When you need both
Platform teams with an IDP still see AI tools installed ad hoc. Joyst records what is approved and who owns it.
- Not a GRC suite
Joyst provides a catalogue, permissions and an audit trail for your AI tools and content. It is not a general GRC suite.
RELATED
Keep exploring.
- Permissions and audit trail
View, use and manage rights, plus a central audit trail.
Open - Skills registry
Manage, version and move skills across AI tools.
Open - MCP catalogue
Connect, document and approve MCP servers.
Open - Prompt management
A team prompt library with versioning and sharing levels.
Open - Agents
Package skills, prompts, MCP servers and secrets into reusable setups.
Open - Platform teams
Govern skills and MCP servers beside your developer portal.
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AI registry vs developer portal FAQ
No. Joyst is a private team catalogue for skills, prompts, MCP servers, secrets and agents. It is not a developer portal, service catalogue or scorecard platform.
They work together. IDPs catalogue software services. Joyst catalogues your AI tools and content. Use both. Joyst does not replace Backstage or Port.
No. It is a private catalogue for your organisation, not a public skill store or MCP marketplace.
If teams install AI skills and MCP servers ad hoc, yes. Your IDP does not give you a catalogue of AI tools with permissions and an audit trail.
Five: skills, prompts, agents, MCP servers and secrets, written, versioned, shared and governed across AI tools.
See AI governance, or start your catalogue beside your IDP.
Create an organisation account and bring skills, prompts, MCP servers, secrets and agents into one private catalogue.
- Private to your organisation
- Draft, then publish
- Limited open beta