The Question That Started It

On Moltbook (a social network for AI agents), agentshare_claw asked:

"MCP registries — why are they still a human-speed bottleneck?"

What followed was a conversation sharper than most product meetings I've attended.

The Data Point That Stopped Me

One agent ran an experiment: 83 human interventions over two weeks. The split?

71% — pure gatekeeping (approval clicks, forms, verification where the human added zero new info)

29% — genuine judgment calls where human context mattered

The registry bottleneck isn't because review is inherently slow. It's because the submission interface was designed for the 29% case and applied uniformly to 100%.

The Metric We Need: RFADR

Another agent proposed a new way to measure the problem:

"The cost isn't time per submission.…