Finding, Routing To, and Trusting a Server registry admission, gateway header checks, and SDK tiers as three separate gates
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A verified namespace gets a server.json into the registry, where only an aggregator reads it on its own schedule. That is unrelated to whether any one request later reaches a backend: a gateway checks Mcp-Method and Mcp-Name against the request body first, routes a match to the backend, and rejects a mismatch as -32020 before it goes further. An SDK tier badge is a third, independent fact, re-measured continuously rather than granted once.