fix(validators): harden mcp-name matching (PyPI/NuGet anchoring, comment-form safe) + cargo follow-ups (#1331)

Registry-wide hardening of the `mcp-name:` ownership-token match, plus
the cargo follow-up fixes from the #1330 review — consolidated here per
maintainer request. Rebased onto current `main` (the merged #1330 cargo
commit drops out), so the diff is just the net-new work.

### Changes
- **PyPI/NuGet: boundary-anchored token match.** Replace
`strings.Contains(readme, "mcp-name: "+name)` with the shared
`containsMCPNameToken`, so a README declaring a longer name
(`…/widget-pro`) no longer satisfies an ownership claim for a shorter
prefix (`…/widget`). (Cargo already got this in #1330; NPM is unaffected
— it compares an exact metadata field.)
- **Matcher: treat the HTML comment close as a boundary.** `<!--
mcp-name: NAME-->` / `<!--mcp-name: NAME-->` (any spacing) validate
again — the documented hidden-comment form for PyPI/NuGet — while a
genuine longer name (`…/widget--pro`) still does not.
- **Cargo hardening (review of #1330):** pin scheme+port (not just host)
on the README fetch and redirects; a rate-limited/failed crate-version
existence probe now reports *transient* instead of "not found"; a 403
with the crate present no longer flatly asserts "no README".
- **Docs:** note the token must be followed by a boundary.

### ⚠️ Behavior change for PyPI/NuGet — read before merging
The match is **strictly stricter** (verified by fuzz, 2.3M execs: it can
only flip pass→fail, never fail→pass). After the comment-close fix, the
**only** forms that newly fail are unusual *inline* ones: the token
ending a sentence (`…/my-mcp.`) or glued to a trailing `/`. The
documented forms (own line, in `<!-- … -->`) are unaffected.

**Correcting an earlier claim:** this re-validates on **edits too**, not
just new versions — `edit.go → UpdateServer → ValidateUpdateRequest →
validateRegistryOwnership` runs the token check on any edit of a live
server (only delete-transitions skip it). So an existing PyPI/NuGet
server whose README uses one of the breaking inline forms would fail on
its next publish *or* edit. Given the v0.1 API-freeze posture, this
should land as a deliberate, noted change.

### Testing
`go build`, `vet`, `gofmt`, `golangci-lint` (prod files),
`check-schema`, `validate-examples` all clean. Hermetic + **live**
PyPI/NuGet/cargo suite passes. New: `TestCargoURLAllowed`, a
combined-fixture probe-429→transient case, comment-form matcher cases,
and `FuzzContainsMCPNameToken` (the strictly-stricter property, 2.3M
execs).

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@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ This MCP server executes SQL queries and manages database connections.
<!-- mcp-name: io.github.username/database-query-mcp -->
```
The `mcp-name:` token must be followed by a boundary — a newline, whitespace, an HTML tag, or the comment close `-->`. Keep it on its own line or inside `<!-- … -->`; do not glue it directly to trailing characters such as a sentence-ending period (`…/database-query-mcp.`), which prevents the match.
## NuGet Packages
For NuGet packages, the MCP Registry currently supports the official NuGet registry (`https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json`) only.
@ -125,6 +127,8 @@ This MCP server manages Azure DevOps work items and pipelines.
<!-- mcp-name: io.github.username/azure-devops-mcp -->
```
The `mcp-name:` token must be followed by a boundary — a newline, whitespace, an HTML tag, or the comment close `-->`. Keep it on its own line or inside `<!-- … -->`; do not glue it directly to trailing characters such as a sentence-ending period (`…/azure-devops-mcp.`), which prevents the match.
## Cargo (Rust) Packages
For Cargo packages, the MCP Registry currently supports the official crates.io registry (`https://crates.io`) only.

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@ -106,16 +106,37 @@ func cargoAllowedHosts(baseURL string) map[string]struct{} {
return hosts
}
// cargoURLAllowed reports whether u is a URL the validator may fetch for the
// given base. The host must be in allowedHosts; additionally, for the real
// crates.io base, the scheme must be https and the port must be the default —
// so a metadata response or redirect cannot downgrade to http or steer the
// validator at a non-standard port on an otherwise-trusted host. For test bases
// (httptest servers) only the host is checked, so mocks keep working.
func cargoURLAllowed(u *url.URL, baseURL string, allowedHosts map[string]struct{}) bool {
if _, ok := allowedHosts[u.Hostname()]; !ok {
return false
}
if baseURL == model.RegistryURLCrates {
if u.Scheme != "https" {
return false
}
if p := u.Port(); p != "" && p != "443" {
return false
}
}
return true
}
// newCargoHTTPClient builds the client used for all crates.io calls. The
// CheckRedirect policy pins every redirect hop to allowedHosts, so even though
// the initial URL is host-pinned, an upstream 3xx cannot redirect the validator
// to an unexpected host.
func newCargoHTTPClient(allowedHosts map[string]struct{}) *http.Client {
// CheckRedirect policy pins every redirect hop via cargoURLAllowed, so even
// though the initial URL is checked, an upstream 3xx cannot redirect the
// validator to an unexpected host, scheme, or port.
func newCargoHTTPClient(baseURL string, allowedHosts map[string]struct{}) *http.Client {
return &http.Client{
Timeout: 10 * time.Second,
CheckRedirect: func(req *http.Request, via []*http.Request) error {
if _, ok := allowedHosts[req.URL.Hostname()]; !ok {
return fmt.Errorf("refusing redirect to unexpected host %q", req.URL.Hostname())
if !cargoURLAllowed(req.URL, baseURL, allowedHosts) {
return fmt.Errorf("refusing redirect to unexpected URL %q", req.URL.Redacted())
}
if len(via) >= 10 {
return errors.New("stopped after 10 redirects")
@ -125,37 +146,53 @@ func newCargoHTTPClient(allowedHosts map[string]struct{}) *http.Client {
}
}
// cargoVersionExists checks whether a specific crate version exists on crates.io,
// used to disambiguate a 403 from the README CDN. static.crates.io (S3) returns
// 403 both for a genuinely-missing crate/version AND for a crate that exists but
// has no rendered README, so a 403 alone cannot tell a publisher which it is.
//
// Returns (exists, determined): determined is false if the existence endpoint
// itself was unreachable or returned an unexpected status, in which case the
// caller should fall back to a generic message rather than assert existence.
func cargoVersionExists(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, baseURL, identifier, version string) (exists, determined bool) {
// cargoVersionState is the outcome of probing the crate-version metadata
// endpoint, used to disambiguate a 403 from the README CDN.
type cargoVersionState int
const (
// cargoVersionUnknown: the probe returned an unexpected status we can't classify.
cargoVersionUnknown cargoVersionState = iota
// cargoVersionExists: the crate version exists (200).
cargoVersionExists
// cargoVersionMissing: the crate version does not exist (404).
cargoVersionMissing
// cargoVersionTransient: the probe failed for a retryable reason (network
// error, 429, or 5xx) — existence is undetermined and the caller should not
// report "not found".
cargoVersionTransient
)
// probeCargoVersion checks whether a specific crate version exists on crates.io.
// static.crates.io (S3) returns 403 both for a genuinely-missing crate/version
// AND for a crate that exists but has no rendered README, so a 403 from the CDN
// alone cannot tell a publisher which it is; this probe disambiguates, while
// distinguishing a transient failure from a definitive missing/exists answer.
func probeCargoVersion(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, baseURL, identifier, version string) cargoVersionState {
versionURL := fmt.Sprintf("%s/api/v1/crates/%s/%s",
baseURL, url.PathEscape(identifier), url.PathEscape(version))
req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodGet, versionURL, nil)
if err != nil {
return false, false
return cargoVersionUnknown
}
req.Header.Set("User-Agent", cargoUserAgent)
req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/json")
resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
return false, false
return cargoVersionTransient
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
switch resp.StatusCode {
case http.StatusOK:
return true, true
case http.StatusNotFound:
return false, true
switch {
case resp.StatusCode == http.StatusOK:
return cargoVersionExists
case resp.StatusCode == http.StatusNotFound:
return cargoVersionMissing
case resp.StatusCode == http.StatusTooManyRequests, resp.StatusCode >= 500 && resp.StatusCode < 600:
return cargoVersionTransient
default:
return false, false
return cargoVersionUnknown
}
}
@ -196,15 +233,21 @@ func cargoReadmeStatusError(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, pkg model.
// endpoint so the publisher gets an actionable message rather than a blanket
// "not found".
func cargoReadme403Error(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, pkg model.Package, serverName string) error {
exists, determined := cargoVersionExists(ctx, client, pkg.RegistryBaseURL, pkg.Identifier, pkg.Version)
switch {
case determined && exists:
return fmt.Errorf("cargo package '%s' version '%s' exists on crates.io but has no rendered README. Add a README containing 'mcp-name: %s' and publish a new version", pkg.Identifier, pkg.Version, serverName)
case determined && !exists:
switch probeCargoVersion(ctx, client, pkg.RegistryBaseURL, pkg.Identifier, pkg.Version) {
case cargoVersionExists:
// The crate/version exists but the README CDN returned 403. The likely
// cause is a missing README, but a 403 is not definitive proof (e.g. a
// transient CDN/WAF block), so don't flatly assert "no README".
return fmt.Errorf("cargo package '%s' version '%s' exists on crates.io, but its rendered README could not be retrieved (status: 403). If it has no README, add one containing 'mcp-name: %s' and publish a new version", pkg.Identifier, pkg.Version, serverName)
case cargoVersionMissing:
return fmt.Errorf("cargo package '%s' version '%s' not found on crates.io", pkg.Identifier, pkg.Version)
default:
return fmt.Errorf("cargo package '%s' version '%s' not found on crates.io (status: 403)", pkg.Identifier, pkg.Version)
case cargoVersionTransient:
return fmt.Errorf("crates.io could not confirm cargo package '%s' version '%s' (README status: 403, version check inconclusive) — likely transient, retry later", pkg.Identifier, pkg.Version)
case cargoVersionUnknown:
// Probe returned an unclassifiable status — fall through to the
// best-effort message below.
}
return fmt.Errorf("cargo package '%s' version '%s' not found on crates.io (status: 403)", pkg.Identifier, pkg.Version)
}
// validateCargoREADME performs the two-call README fetch and the mcp-name token
@ -213,7 +256,7 @@ func cargoReadme403Error(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, pkg model.Pac
// bypassing the exact-baseURL guard that ValidateCargo enforces for callers.
func validateCargoREADME(ctx context.Context, pkg model.Package, serverName string) error {
allowedHosts := cargoAllowedHosts(pkg.RegistryBaseURL)
client := newCargoHTTPClient(allowedHosts)
client := newCargoHTTPClient(pkg.RegistryBaseURL, allowedHosts)
// Step 1: fetch the README pointer from the documented API endpoint.
metaURL := fmt.Sprintf("%s/api/v1/crates/%s/%s/readme",
@ -246,14 +289,15 @@ func validateCargoREADME(ctx context.Context, pkg model.Package, serverName stri
return fmt.Errorf("cargo package '%s' metadata response missing 'url' field", pkg.Identifier)
}
// Pin the README pointer to an allowed host before fetching it, so a metadata
// response cannot steer the validator at an internal or attacker-chosen host.
// Pin the README pointer to an allowed host/scheme/port before fetching it, so
// a metadata response cannot steer the validator at an internal or
// attacker-chosen URL.
readmeParsed, err := url.Parse(meta.URL)
if err != nil || readmeParsed.Hostname() == "" {
return fmt.Errorf("cargo package '%s': crates.io returned an unparseable README URL", pkg.Identifier)
}
if _, ok := allowedHosts[readmeParsed.Hostname()]; !ok {
return fmt.Errorf("cargo package '%s': crates.io returned a README URL on unexpected host %q — refusing to fetch", pkg.Identifier, readmeParsed.Hostname())
if !cargoURLAllowed(readmeParsed, pkg.RegistryBaseURL, allowedHosts) {
return fmt.Errorf("cargo package '%s': crates.io returned a README URL on an unexpected host/scheme %q — refusing to fetch", pkg.Identifier, readmeParsed.Redacted())
}
// Step 2: fetch the rendered README from the (now host-validated) URL.
@ -287,5 +331,11 @@ func validateCargoREADME(ctx context.Context, pkg model.Package, serverName stri
return nil
}
// If the token IS present but glued to a trailing character, explain that
// rather than telling the publisher to add a token they can already see.
if trailing, glued := mcpNameTokenGluedTrailing(string(body), serverName); glued {
return fmt.Errorf("cargo package '%s' ownership validation failed: found 'mcp-name: %s' in the README, but it is immediately followed by %q rather than a boundary. The token must be followed by a space, newline, or an HTML tag — put it on its own line and publish a new version", pkg.Identifier, serverName, trailing)
}
return fmt.Errorf("cargo package '%s' ownership validation failed. The server name '%s' must appear as 'mcp-name: %s' in the package README", pkg.Identifier, serverName, serverName)
}

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@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
package registries
import (
"net/url"
"testing"
"github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/pkg/model"
)
// TestCargoURLAllowed covers the SSRF allow-check: for the real crates.io base,
// the host must be allow-listed AND the scheme/port must be https/default; for a
// test (httptest) base only the host is checked so mocks keep working.
func TestCargoURLAllowed(t *testing.T) {
prodHosts := cargoAllowedHosts(model.RegistryURLCrates) // {crates.io, static.crates.io}
mockBase := "http://127.0.0.1:54321"
mockHosts := cargoAllowedHosts(mockBase) // {127.0.0.1}
cases := []struct {
desc string
raw string
baseURL string
hosts map[string]struct{}
want bool
}{
{"prod: https static.crates.io", "https://static.crates.io/readmes/x/x.html", model.RegistryURLCrates, prodHosts, true},
{"prod: https crates.io", "https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/x/1.0.0", model.RegistryURLCrates, prodHosts, true},
{"prod: http downgrade rejected", "http://static.crates.io/x", model.RegistryURLCrates, prodHosts, false},
{"prod: non-default port rejected", "https://static.crates.io:8443/x", model.RegistryURLCrates, prodHosts, false},
{"prod: explicit 443 ok", "https://static.crates.io:443/x", model.RegistryURLCrates, prodHosts, true},
{"prod: foreign host rejected", "https://evil.example/x", model.RegistryURLCrates, prodHosts, false},
{"prod: userinfo host is evil rejected", "https://static.crates.io@evil.example/x", model.RegistryURLCrates, prodHosts, false},
{"test base: mock host any scheme/port ok", "http://127.0.0.1:54321/readme-static/x", mockBase, mockHosts, true},
{"test base: foreign host rejected", "http://127.0.0.2:54321/x", mockBase, mockHosts, false},
}
for _, tc := range cases {
t.Run(tc.desc, func(t *testing.T) {
u, err := url.Parse(tc.raw)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("parse %q: %v", tc.raw, err)
}
if got := cargoURLAllowed(u, tc.baseURL, tc.hosts); got != tc.want {
t.Fatalf("cargoURLAllowed(%q, base=%q) = %v, want %v", tc.raw, tc.baseURL, got, tc.want)
}
})
}
}

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@ -340,6 +340,7 @@ func TestValidateCargoCombinedFixture(t *testing.T) {
readmeStatus int
readmeBody string
versionExists bool // response for the /api/v1/crates/{n}/{v} existence probe (403 disambiguation)
versionProbe int // if non-zero, the existence probe returns this status (overrides versionExists)
wantErr bool
wantContains []string
wantNotContains []string
@ -377,8 +378,9 @@ func TestValidateCargoCombinedFixture(t *testing.T) {
wantNotContains: []string{"has no rendered README"},
},
{
// Crate/version exists but has no rendered README: CDN 403 + existence
// probe 200. Must NOT be reported as "not found".
// Crate/version exists but the README CDN 403s: existence probe 200.
// Must NOT be reported as "not found", and must not flatly assert the
// README is absent (a 403 isn't definitive proof of that).
name: "readme_403_no_readme",
crateName: "combined-readme403-noreadme",
version: "0.1.0",
@ -386,7 +388,20 @@ func TestValidateCargoCombinedFixture(t *testing.T) {
readmeStatus: http.StatusForbidden,
versionExists: true,
wantErr: true,
wantContains: []string{"has no rendered README"},
wantContains: []string{"exists on crates.io", "could not be retrieved"},
wantNotContains: []string{"not found"},
},
{
// CDN 403 + the existence probe itself is rate-limited (429): existence
// is undetermined, so report transient/retryable, NOT "not found".
name: "readme_403_probe_transient",
crateName: "combined-readme403-probe429",
version: "0.1.0",
metaStatus: http.StatusOK,
readmeStatus: http.StatusForbidden,
versionProbe: http.StatusTooManyRequests,
wantErr: true,
wantContains: []string{"transient"},
wantNotContains: []string{"not found"},
},
{
@ -421,6 +436,18 @@ func TestValidateCargoCombinedFixture(t *testing.T) {
wantErr: true,
wantContains: []string{"ownership validation failed"},
},
{
// Token present but glued to a trailing period — the error must explain
// the boundary cause, not tell the publisher to add a token they can see.
name: "glued_trailing_period_explained",
crateName: "combined-glued",
version: "0.1.0",
metaStatus: http.StatusOK,
readmeStatus: http.StatusOK,
readmeBody: fmt.Sprintf("<html><body><p>mcp-name: %s.</p></body></html>", serverName),
wantErr: true,
wantContains: []string{"immediately followed by", `"."`},
},
}
// lastMetaPath captures the metadata request path seen by the handler so
@ -450,10 +477,13 @@ func TestValidateCargoCombinedFixture(t *testing.T) {
}
// Existence probe used to disambiguate a README 403.
if r.URL.Path == versionPath {
if tt.versionExists {
switch {
case tt.versionProbe != 0:
http.Error(w, "simulated probe status", tt.versionProbe)
case tt.versionExists:
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
_ = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(map[string]any{"version": map[string]string{"num": tt.version}})
} else {
default:
http.Error(w, "not found", http.StatusNotFound)
}
return

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@ -18,6 +18,28 @@ func isServerNameChar(c byte) bool {
}
}
// isMCPNameBoundary reports whether the content immediately following a matched
// server name terminates the token, so that the matched name is not merely a
// prefix of a longer declared name.
//
// A boundary is the end of content, any non-server-name character (whitespace, a
// newline, or an HTML tag delimiter such as `<`), or the start of an HTML comment
// close (`-->` / `--!>`). The comment-close case matters because PyPI and NuGet
// publishers commonly hide the token in `<!-- mcp-name: NAME -->`, and authors
// (or minifiers) frequently omit the space before `-->`, producing
// `<!-- mcp-name: NAME-->`. There the byte after NAME is `-`, which is a
// server-name character, so without this case the documented hidden-comment form
// would fail to validate.
func isMCPNameBoundary(rest string) bool {
if rest == "" {
return true
}
if !isServerNameChar(rest[0]) {
return true
}
return strings.HasPrefix(rest, "-->") || strings.HasPrefix(rest, "--!>")
}
// containsMCPNameToken reports whether the package README/description contains
// the ownership token "mcp-name: <serverName>" as a complete token — i.e. the
// matched server name is not merely a prefix of a longer declared name.
@ -27,10 +49,9 @@ func isServerNameChar(c byte) bool {
// satisfy an ownership claim for the shorter `io.github.acme/widget`, because the
// shorter string is a substring of the longer one. This is contained by namespace
// authorization (a publisher can only claim names within a namespace they own),
// but it still weakens the crate↔server-name binding the token is meant to prove,
// so we require a trailing boundary: the character following the server name must
// be the end of the content or any non-server-name character (whitespace, a
// newline, or an HTML tag delimiter from a rendered README such as `<`).
// but it still weakens the package↔server-name binding the token is meant to
// prove, so we require a trailing boundary after the server name (see
// isMCPNameBoundary).
//
// Shared by the README-token validators (PyPI, NuGet, Cargo). NPM is unaffected
// because it compares an exact metadata field rather than scanning README text.
@ -43,7 +64,7 @@ func containsMCPNameToken(content, serverName string) bool {
return false
}
tokenEnd := searchFrom + idx + len(token)
if tokenEnd >= len(content) || !isServerNameChar(content[tokenEnd]) {
if isMCPNameBoundary(content[tokenEnd:]) {
return true
}
// This occurrence is a prefix of a longer name; keep scanning in case a
@ -51,3 +72,26 @@ func containsMCPNameToken(content, serverName string) bool {
searchFrom = searchFrom + idx + 1
}
}
// mcpNameTokenGluedTrailing explains why a visibly-present token failed to match.
// When containsMCPNameToken has already returned false, it reports whether the
// literal "mcp-name: <serverName>" string is nonetheless present and, if so, the
// character immediately following it — i.e. the trailing character that made the
// occurrence look like a prefix of a longer name rather than a complete token.
// Validators use it to turn an unhelpful "token must appear" message into an
// actionable "found it, but it's glued to %q — put it on its own line" message.
// Returns ("", false) when the literal token is absent (a genuinely missing token).
func mcpNameTokenGluedTrailing(content, serverName string) (trailing string, glued bool) {
token := "mcp-name: " + serverName
idx := strings.Index(content, token)
if idx < 0 {
return "", false
}
end := idx + len(token)
if end >= len(content) {
// A token at end-of-content is a valid boundary, so containsMCPNameToken
// would not have failed; be defensive and treat it as not-glued.
return "", false
}
return string(content[end]), true
}

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@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
package registries
import "testing"
import (
"strings"
"testing"
)
// TestContainsMCPNameToken covers the boundary-anchored ownership-token match
// shared by the PyPI, NuGet, and Cargo validators — in particular that a server
@ -23,6 +26,17 @@ func TestContainsMCPNameToken(t *testing.T) {
{"absent", "nothing to see here", false},
{"different name", "mcp-name: io.github.other/thing\n", false},
{"prefix occurrence before a real one still matches", "mcp-name: io.github.acme/widget-pro then mcp-name: io.github.acme/widget\n", true},
// HTML hidden-comment form (documented for PyPI/NuGet). The canonical
// spaced form has always passed; the no-space variants must pass too,
// since the byte after the name is the `-` of the comment close.
{"comment, spaced (canonical)", "<!-- mcp-name: io.github.acme/widget -->", true},
{"comment, no trailing space", "<!-- mcp-name: io.github.acme/widget-->", true},
{"comment, no spaces at all", "<!--mcp-name: io.github.acme/widget-->", true},
{"legacy comment close --!>", "<!-- mcp-name: io.github.acme/widget--!>", true},
// A genuine longer name with a double hyphen is still NOT a match for the
// shorter claim (it is not an HTML comment close).
{"double-hyphen longer name not a match", "mcp-name: io.github.acme/widget--pro\n", false},
}
for _, tc := range cases {
@ -33,3 +47,58 @@ func TestContainsMCPNameToken(t *testing.T) {
})
}
}
// TestMCPNameTokenGluedTrailing covers the diagnostic helper that explains why a
// visibly-present token failed: it reports the trailing character gluing the
// token to a longer name, or ("", false) when the token is genuinely absent.
func TestMCPNameTokenGluedTrailing(t *testing.T) {
const name = "io.github.acme/widget"
cases := []struct {
desc string
content string
wantTrailing string
wantGlued bool
}{
{"absent", "no token here", "", false},
{"glued period", "mcp-name: io.github.acme/widget.", ".", true},
{"glued hyphen (longer name)", "mcp-name: io.github.acme/widget-pro", "-", true},
{"glued slash", "mcp-name: io.github.acme/widget/x", "/", true},
{"at end of content (boundary, not glued)", "mcp-name: io.github.acme/widget", "", false},
}
for _, tc := range cases {
t.Run(tc.desc, func(t *testing.T) {
gotTrailing, gotGlued := mcpNameTokenGluedTrailing(tc.content, name)
if gotGlued != tc.wantGlued || gotTrailing != tc.wantTrailing {
t.Fatalf("mcpNameTokenGluedTrailing(%q) = (%q, %v), want (%q, %v)",
tc.content, gotTrailing, gotGlued, tc.wantTrailing, tc.wantGlued)
}
})
}
}
// FuzzContainsMCPNameToken pins the core safety property of the boundary-anchored
// matcher: it is strictly stricter than a bare substring check. A true result
// must imply the literal token is present (strings.Contains). This guards against
// a future edit to isServerNameChar/isMCPNameBoundary accidentally accepting
// something the old behavior rejected — i.e. it can only ever flip pass→fail,
// never fail→pass. Runs the seed corpus under `go test`; exhaustively under
// `go test -fuzz`.
func FuzzContainsMCPNameToken(f *testing.F) {
seeds := []struct{ content, name string }{
{"mcp-name: io.github.acme/widget", "io.github.acme/widget"},
{"mcp-name: io.github.acme/widget-pro", "io.github.acme/widget"},
{"<!-- mcp-name: io.github.acme/widget-->", "io.github.acme/widget"},
{"prefix mcp-name: a/b then mcp-name: a/b-c", "a/b"},
{"", ""},
{"mcp-name: ", ""},
{"random text with no token", "io.github.x/y"},
}
for _, s := range seeds {
f.Add(s.content, s.name)
}
f.Fuzz(func(t *testing.T, content, name string) {
if containsMCPNameToken(content, name) && !strings.Contains(content, "mcp-name: "+name) {
t.Fatalf("matcher accepted but literal token absent: content=%q name=%q", content, name)
}
})
}

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@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ type ReadmeState int
const (
ValidReadme ReadmeState = iota
InvalidReadme
// GluedReadme: the literal token is present but glued to a trailing character
// (so the boundary-anchored match rejected it as a prefix of a longer name).
GluedReadme
NoReadme
)
@ -99,6 +102,8 @@ func ValidateNuGet(ctx context.Context, pkg model.Package, serverName string) er
return nil
case InvalidReadme:
return fmt.Errorf("NuGet package '%s' ownership validation for version %s failed. The server name '%s' must appear as 'mcp-name: %s' in the package README. Add it to your README and publish a new package version", pkg.Identifier, pkg.Version, serverName, serverName)
case GluedReadme:
return fmt.Errorf("NuGet package '%s' ownership validation for version %s failed: found 'mcp-name: %s' in the README, but it is immediately followed by another character rather than a boundary. The token must be followed by a space, newline, an HTML tag, or a comment close ('-->') — put it on its own line and publish a new package version", pkg.Identifier, pkg.Version, serverName)
case NoReadme:
// Continue to check if package exists
default:
@ -237,10 +242,13 @@ func validateReadme(ctx context.Context, serverName, lowerID, lowerVersion strin
readmeContent := string(readmeBytes)
// Check for mcp-name: format (more specific)
mcpNamePattern := "mcp-name: " + serverName
if strings.Contains(readmeContent, mcpNamePattern) {
return ValidReadme, nil // Found as mcp-name: format
// Check for the mcp-name: <server-name> ownership token (boundary-anchored
// to avoid prefix confusion — see containsMCPNameToken).
if containsMCPNameToken(readmeContent, serverName) {
return ValidReadme, nil
}
if _, glued := mcpNameTokenGluedTrailing(readmeContent, serverName); glued {
return GluedReadme, nil
}
return InvalidReadme, nil

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@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"net/url"
"strings"
"time"
"github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/pkg/model"
@ -85,10 +84,16 @@ func ValidatePyPI(ctx context.Context, pkg model.Package, serverName string) err
// Check description (README) content
description := pypiResp.Info.Description
// Check for mcp-name: format (more specific)
mcpNamePattern := "mcp-name: " + serverName
if strings.Contains(description, mcpNamePattern) {
return nil // Found as mcp-name: format
// Check for the mcp-name: <server-name> ownership token (boundary-anchored to
// avoid prefix confusion — see containsMCPNameToken).
if containsMCPNameToken(description, serverName) {
return nil
}
// If the token IS present but glued to a trailing character, say so — otherwise
// the publisher sees "must appear as mcp-name: X" while looking at exactly that.
if trailing, glued := mcpNameTokenGluedTrailing(description, serverName); glued {
return fmt.Errorf("PyPI package '%s' ownership validation failed: found 'mcp-name: %s' in the README, but it is immediately followed by %q rather than a boundary. The token must be followed by a space, newline, an HTML tag, or a comment close ('-->') — put it on its own line and republish", pkg.Identifier, serverName, trailing)
}
return fmt.Errorf("PyPI package '%s' ownership validation failed. The server name '%s' must appear as 'mcp-name: %s' in the package README", pkg.Identifier, serverName, serverName)