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## Motivation and Context
<!-- Why is this change needed? What problem does it solve? -->
Resolve https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/issues/768 and
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/issues/494.
Require HTTPS for remote URLs. Currently all remote URLs on the MCP
Registry are HTTPS.
Also fix a test bug when running on Windows (bad temp path).
## How Has This Been Tested?
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tested? -->
Unit tests.
Published a server.json locally with a website URL not matching the
server name.
## Breaking Changes
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## Types of changes
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the boxes that apply: -->
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [x] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to change)
- [ ] Documentation update
## Checklist
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that apply. -->
- [x] I have read the [MCP
Documentation](https://modelcontextprotocol.io)
- [x] My code follows the repository's style guidelines
- [x] New and existing tests pass locally
- [x] I have added appropriate error handling
- [ ] ~I have added or updated documentation as needed~ N/A
## Additional context
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## Motivation and Context
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The following PR:
* Deprecates the existing OCI reference parser
* Deprecates the existing OCI way of authenticating and accessing the
image manifest
* Replaces the above by leveraging go-containerregistry
* Introduces support for Google Artifact Registry
* Enables us to easily add support for other OCI-compliant registries in
the future
* Introduces better error handling
* Introduces custom context timeouts for validation
## How Has This Been Tested?
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tested? -->
## Breaking Changes
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## Types of changes
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the boxes that apply: -->
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [x] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to change)
- [ ] Documentation update
## Checklist
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- [ ] I have read the [MCP
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- [ ] My code follows the repository's style guidelines
- [ ] New and existing tests pass locally
- [ ] I have added appropriate error handling
- [ ] I have added or updated documentation as needed
## Additional context
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Related to #427
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## Motivation and Context
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The following PR:
* Makes mcpb package version property optional
* Bumps the schema and reflects that in the code
* Makes sure the publisher tests are being covered by doing `make check`
## How Has This Been Tested?
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tested? -->
## Breaking Changes
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## Types of changes
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the boxes that apply: -->
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to change)
- [ ] Documentation update
## Checklist
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that apply. -->
- [ ] I have read the [MCP
Documentation](https://modelcontextprotocol.io)
- [ ] My code follows the repository's style guidelines
- [ ] New and existing tests pass locally
- [ ] I have added appropriate error handling
- [ ] I have added or updated documentation as needed
## Additional context
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## Motivation and Context
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Addressing
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/pull/634#issuecomment-3410615843
## How Has This Been Tested?
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tested? -->
## Breaking Changes
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## Types of changes
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the boxes that apply: -->
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to change)
- [ ] Documentation update
## Checklist
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- [ ] I have read the [MCP
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- [ ] My code follows the repository's style guidelines
- [ ] New and existing tests pass locally
- [ ] I have added appropriate error handling
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Signed-off-by: Radoslav Dimitrov <radoslav@stacklok.com>
This PR adds a Go tool that extracts the ServerDetail schema from
openapi.yaml and generates server.schema.json, ensuring the two specs
stay in sync.
## Key Changes
### New Tooling
- **Go tool** at `tools/extract-server-schema/` that auto-discovers all
schemas referenced by ServerDetail and extracts them from OpenAPI
- **make targets**: `generate-schema` (generates schema) and
`check-schema` (verifies sync)
- `check-schema` is now included in `make validate` and `make check`
### Preserved Validation Constraints
The initial auto-generated schema lost many important validation rules
and descriptive guidance from the hand-crafted version. The OpenAPI spec
has been updated to preserve:
**Security & Descriptions:**
- Command injection security warning on Arguments
- Detailed field descriptions with usage guidance
- `placeholder` field for Input schema
**Validation Constraints:**
- `fileSha256` pattern validation (`^[a-f0-9]{64}$`)
- Package version restrictions (minLength: 1, no "latest")
- `transport` as required field in Package
- ServerDetail `name` pattern and length constraints (3-200 chars)
- Description, title, and version length limits
**Documentation:**
- Repository field descriptions (url, source, id, subfolder)
- PositionalArgument `valueHint` explains transport URL substitution
- Updated examples to match hand-crafted version (Weather API theme)
**Intentional Changes:**
- Removed `additionalProperties` constraints for flexibility
- Updated schema title to be more descriptive
- Added `$comment` noting auto-generation
See the commit "Preserve validation constraints in auto-generated
server.schema.json" for details.
### Fixed Missing Package.transport
- Added `transport` field to OpenAPI Package schema (was in Go model at
`pkg/model/types.go:30` but missing from OpenAPI)
- Split transport types into three separate schemas with proper
discriminated unions:
- `StdioTransport` - Only requires `type: stdio`
- `StreamableHttpTransport` - Requires `type` and `url`, supports
`headers`
- `SseTransport` - Requires `type` and `url`, supports `headers`
- `Package.transport` uses `anyOf` with all three types
- `ServerDetail.remotes` uses `anyOf` with only remote types (no stdio)
### Other Improvements
- Added `GOTOOLCHAIN=auto` to Makefile for Go 1.25 compatibility
- Added `DRIFT_ANALYSIS.md` documenting all schema drift issues found
between specs
## Benefits
**Single Source of Truth**: The OpenAPI spec now serves as the
authoritative schema definition, with server.schema.json automatically
derived from it.
**Better Validation**: All critical validation rules (patterns, length
constraints, required fields) and security warnings are preserved in the
generated schema.
**Improved Developer Experience**:
- Schema changes only need to be made in one place (openapi.yaml)
- CI validation ensures specs never drift apart
- Clear auto-generation comment prevents manual edits
## Validation
✅ All 20 examples validate correctly
✅ Lint passes with 0 issues
✅ Schema is in sync with OpenAPI
✅ All validation constraints from hand-crafted schema preserved
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Implements icon support based on the Model Context Protocol
specification, allowing servers to specify display icons with optional
size, MIME type, and theme variants.
## Changes
- Add `Icon` type to `pkg/model/types.go` with struct tags for automatic
API validation
- Add `icons` field to `ServerJSON` in `pkg/api/v0/types.go`
- Add icon validation in `internal/validators/validators.go`:
- Only HTTPS URLs allowed (no HTTP or data URIs)
- Maximum URL length of 255 characters
- Validates absolute URLs with proper scheme
- Update JSON schema and OpenAPI documentation with Icon definitions
- Add comprehensive test cases for icon validation
- Add example icon to seed.json (Airtable server)
- Change `websiteUrl` validation to HTTPS-only for consistency
## Implementation Details
The implementation uses a two-layer validation architecture:
1. **Huma framework** validates struct tags (`required`, `maxLength`,
`enum`, `pattern`) and returns 422 for violations
2. **Custom validators** handle business logic (HTTPS scheme
requirement, absolute URL requirement) and return 400 for violations
This approach leverages Huma's automatic validation while keeping
business-specific rules in the validator layer.
## Icon Field Specification
- `src` (required): HTTPS URL to icon resource, max 255 characters
- `mimeType` (optional): One of `image/png`, `image/jpeg`, `image/jpg`,
`image/svg+xml`, `image/webp`
- `sizes` (optional): Array of size strings in "WxH" format or "any" for
scalable formats
- `theme` (optional): Either "light" or "dark" to indicate intended
background
Multiple icons can be provided (e.g., for different themes or sizes).
- Clarified `value` field description to remove incorrect 'default'
wording
- Improved `valueHint` description to clarify its form and purpose
(labels and variable substitution)
- Fixed NamedArgument `description` to use correct flag syntax (--flag
{value})
- Enhanced `default` field description with guidance on valid values and
when to use placeholder instead
- Added optional Input `placeholder` field for input guidance and
examples
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## Motivation and Context
After implementing a configuration UX for the registry supporting all
schema elements, performing schema validation on all published servers
and analyzing failures, and hand reviewing approximately a hundred
server configurations, I found a number of concerning issues
(essentially misconfigurations, verified by the docs of the server in
question, which often did not fail schema validation). I also found
"proper" configurations which disagreed with the schema guidance (for
example, all named args usage).
I documented those issues and my recommendations here:
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/discussions/572
The fairly modest changes in this PR will address these issues (or at
least make the correct usage more clear so that we can give more
explicit guidance that is consistent with the new schema, and generally
clean up these misconfiguration).
## How Has This Been Tested?
I used my own schema validation script to apply this schema to all
published servers. The changes are only documentation (description
updates) and the addition of a new field property, so no validation
behavior change was intended nor was any observed.
## Breaking Changes
No breaking changes
## Types of changes
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the boxes that apply: -->
- [X] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [X] Documentation update
## Checklist
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that apply. -->
- [X] I have read the [MCP
Documentation](https://modelcontextprotocol.io)
- [ ] My code follows the repository's style guidelines
- [ ] New and existing tests pass locally
- [ ] I have added appropriate error handling
- [ ] I have added or updated documentation as needed
## Summary
Introduces a new optional `title` field for MCP servers to provide a
clean, human-readable display name that clients and subregistries can
use for display purposes.
Fixes#606
## Changes
- Added `title` field to `ServerJSON` type (optional, max 100 chars)
- Added validation to reject titles ending with 'MCP Server', 'MCP
server', or 'MCP' suffixes
- Updated JSON schema and OpenAPI specification
- Added comprehensive test coverage for title validation
- Updated all documentation examples to demonstrate the new field
## Validation
The title field:
- Is optional (can be omitted)
- Must not be only whitespace if provided
- Must not end with MCP-related suffixes (case-insensitive)
- Can contain 'MCP' in the middle (e.g., "MCP Weather API" is valid)
Examples:
- ✅ Valid: "GitHub", "Weather API", "Slack Integration"
- ❌ Invalid: "GitHub MCP", "Weather MCP Server", "Slack-MCP"
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## Motivation and Context
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The following PR:
* Enforces schema validation on the API level (requests without schema
or older schema will fail)
* Updates the unit tests and examples to match that
## How Has This Been Tested?
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tested? -->
## Breaking Changes
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**Note this can be considered breaking if clients have not included it
before.**
## Types of changes
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the boxes that apply: -->
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to change)
- [ ] Documentation update
## Checklist
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that apply. -->
- [ ] I have read the [MCP
Documentation](https://modelcontextprotocol.io)
- [ ] My code follows the repository's style guidelines
- [ ] New and existing tests pass locally
- [ ] I have added appropriate error handling
- [ ] I have added or updated documentation as needed
## Additional context
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Signed-off-by: Radoslav Dimitrov <radoslav@stacklok.com>
This PR simplifies the OpenAPI schema by merging the `Server` component
into `ServerDetail`, addressing the issue where the `Server` component
was never used independently.
## Changes
- Merged all Server properties directly into ServerDetail in both
OpenAPI spec and JSON schema
- Removed allOf construct for clearer, standalone definitions
- Deleted unused Server components
## Benefits
- Clearer schema structure
- Easier to understand without inheritance tracing
- Reduced maintenance complexity
- No functionality loss
## Validation
All schemas and documentation examples continue to validate
successfully.
Resolves#609
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## Summary
Changes `streamable-http` to be the recommended and primary transport
type in documentation examples, while keeping SSE as a secondary option
during the preview period.
## Changes
- ✅ Update all primary remote server examples to use `streamable-http`
- ✅ Reorder multi-transport examples to show `streamable-http` first
- ✅ Add note that SSE is deprecated but still supported during preview
- ✅ Update transport protocol requirements text to indicate
`streamable-http` (recommended) and `sse` (deprecated)
## Context
As noted in issue #487, the docs were using SSE as the primary example
despite it being deprecated in the MCP specification (2025-06-18) in
favor of streamable HTTP. This PR aligns the documentation with the spec
while maintaining backward compatibility information for the preview
period.
Per maintainer feedback on the issue:
- SSE is still supported during the preview phase
- Eventually SSE support will be removed
- The community would benefit from consistent messaging about the
preferred transport
## Files Changed
- `docs/guides/publishing/publish-server.md` - Main publishing guide
- `docs/reference/server-json/generic-server-json.md` - Reference
documentation with examples
## Approach
This takes a balanced approach:
- Makes streamable-http the clear primary/recommended option
- Keeps SSE documented as supported during preview (not hidden)
- Adds explicit note about deprecation status
- Minimal changes, focused on examples and ordering
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## Summary
- Remove the `status` field from all server.json examples in
documentation
- Remove the deprecated server example that was primarily about
demonstrating the status field
- Update example count validation from 13 to 12
## Context
The `status` field was removed from the server.json schema in commit
b21c6f5 (#562). This PR cleans up the documentation to reflect that
change.
## Why didn't tests catch this?
The schema validation didn't catch the invalid `status` field because
the JSON schema doesn't have `additionalProperties: false` set. This
means the schema allows arbitrary additional properties by default.
## Test plan
- [x] All validation checks pass (`make check`)
- [x] Example count updated to match the new total (12 examples)
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Wielded Claude Code to do this; across many iterations and have reviewed
all the code + largely rewritten the PR commentary here.
This PR implements the server ID consistency changes from
[#396](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/issues/396). Our
goal is to:
- Rename `id` to `versionId` to make it clear that it is the ID for a
specific version, not a server
- Introduce `serverId` as a net new concept. This will be 1:1 with
`name`. While not strictly necessary (we could just use name as a PK),
the convention of having a UUID as an ID on our objects is just a
helpful subjective architecture decision. Plus also leaves open the door
to reconsidering the "should we allow renames" question.
## Key Changes
### 🗄️ Database Schema Changes
- **Renamed**: `id` column → `version_id` (unique identifier for each
server version)
### 📋 Metadata Structure Updates
- **JSON Schema**: Updated
`_meta.io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official` to include:
- `serverId`: Consistent ID across all versions of a server
- `versionId`: Unique ID for this specific version (renamed from `id`)
### 🔧 API Endpoint Updates
- **New endpoint structure**: Changed from version-ID-based to
server-ID-based URLs:
- `GET /v0/servers/{server_id}` - Get latest version of server
- `GET /v0/servers/{server_id}?version=X.X.X` - Get specific version
- `GET /v0/servers/{server_id}/versions` - List all versions of a server
- `PUT /v0/servers/{server_id}?version=X.X.X` - Edit specific version
- **Consistent URL patterns**: All server endpoints now use `server_id`
as the primary identifier
### Database Migration Strategy
The migration (`005_add_server_id_rename_version_id.sql`):
1. Adds new `version_id` column
2. Generates deterministic UUIDs for servers with the same name
3. Updates JSON metadata to add `serverId` and rename `id` to
`versionId`
4. Copies existing `id` values to `version_id` column
5. Drops old `id` column and makes `version_id` the new primary key
## Testing
Besides of course automated tests passing, I:
1. Set up my local db with the pre-005-migration state, imported all the
production data
2. Ran the migration
3. Spot checked some diffs of the data that resulted --
```json
// before
{
"name": "io.github.ruvnet/ruv-swarm",
"_meta": {
"io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official": {
"id": "0a9cda7f-2b73-4839-844b-6582f335de42",
"is_latest": false,
"updated_at": "2025-09-10T17:21:34.92137012Z",
"published_at": "2025-09-10T17:15:32.69690433Z"
}
},
"version": "1.0.18",
"repository": {
"url": "",
"source": ""
},
"description": "Neural network swarm orchestration with WebAssembly acceleration and MCP integration"
}
// after
{
"name": "io.github.ruvnet/ruv-swarm",
"_meta": {
"io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official": {
"serverId": "e8538952-96af-4a33-9e31-7fbed012521e",
"is_latest": false,
"versionId": "0a9cda7f-2b73-4839-844b-6582f335de42",
"updated_at": "2025-09-10T17:21:34.92137012Z",
"published_at": "2025-09-10T17:15:32.69690433Z"
}
},
"version": "1.0.18",
"repository": {
"url": "",
"source": ""
},
"description": "Neural network swarm orchestration with WebAssembly acceleration and MCP integration"
}
```
Servers that have multiple versions stayed consistent in their
`serverId`:
```json
// First version
{
"name": "app.getdialer/dialer",
"_meta": {
"io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official": {
"serverId": "80f08bdb-f3e4-4f19-b072-1676ae49b663",
"is_latest": false,
"versionId": "04f25b17-331d-48d7-b08b-37baece208a7",
"updated_at": "2025-09-09T00:16:49.162620072Z",
"published_at": "2025-09-08T23:47:09.452137971Z"
}
},
"status": "active",
"$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-07-09/server.schema.json",
"remotes": [
{
"url": "https://getdialer.app/mcp",
"type": "streamable-http"
},
{
"url": "https://getdialer.app/sse",
"type": "sse"
}
],
"version": "1.0.0",
"repository": {
"url": "",
"source": ""
},
"description": "An MCP server that provides your you make outbound phone calls using your own phone number"
}
// Second version
{
"name": "app.getdialer/dialer",
"_meta": {
"io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official": {
"serverId": "80f08bdb-f3e4-4f19-b072-1676ae49b663",
"is_latest": true,
"versionId": "faa26cb9-3aad-415e-aece-f715fff5fe5e",
"updated_at": "2025-09-09T00:16:49.107842808Z",
"published_at": "2025-09-09T00:16:49.107842808Z"
}
},
"status": "active",
"$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-07-09/server.schema.json",
"remotes": [
{
"url": "https://getdialer.app/mcp",
"type": "streamable-http"
},
{
"url": "https://getdialer.app/sse",
"type": "sse"
}
],
"version": "1.0.1",
"repository": {
"url": "",
"source": ""
},
"description": "An MCP server that provides lets you make outbound phone calls using your own phone number"
}
```
And I also tried publishing a test server anew; looked good:
```bash
⏺ Bash(curl -s "http://localhost:8080/v0/servers/102dc4e4-6ca8-40e6-aa11-cd45763d3352" | jq '.')
⎿ {
"$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-07-09/server.schema.json",
"name": "io.modelcontextprotocol.anonymous/test-claude-migration-server",
"description": "A test server to verify the new migration and API endpoints work correctly",
"status": "active",
"repository": {
"url": "https://github.com/example/test-claude-migration-server",
"source": "github",
"id": "example/test-claude-migration-server"
},
"version": "1.0.0",
"_meta": {
"io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official": {
"serverId": "102dc4e4-6ca8-40e6-aa11-cd45763d3352",
"versionId": "48c9cd55-7bc4-4ac2-896e-59e81eb653e4",
"published_at": "2025-09-12T18:33:23.264203-07:00",
"updated_at": "2025-09-12T18:33:23.264203-07:00",
"is_latest": true
}
}
}
⏺ Bash(curl -s "http://localhost:8080/v0/servers/102dc4e4-6ca8-40e6-aa11-cd45763d3352/versions" | jq '.')
⎿ {
"servers": [
{
"$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-07-09/server.schema.json",
"name": "io.modelcontextprotocol.anonymous/test-claude-migration-server",
"description": "A test server to verify the new migration and API endpoints work correctly",
"status": "active",
"repository": {
"url": "https://github.com/example/test-claude-migration-server",
"source": "github",
"id": "example/test-claude-migration-server"
},
"version": "1.0.0",
"_meta": {
"io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official": {
"serverId": "102dc4e4-6ca8-40e6-aa11-cd45763d3352",
"versionId": "48c9cd55-7bc4-4ac2-896e-59e81eb653e4",
"published_at": "2025-09-12T18:33:23.264203-07:00",
"updated_at": "2025-09-12T18:33:23.264203-07:00",
"is_latest": true
}
}
}
],
"metadata": {
"count": 1
}
}
```
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## Summary
- Move package version 'remarks' to 'description' field in JSON schema
(remarks is not a standard JSON schema field)
- Confirmed non-semver version test coverage already exists
Addresses followup comments from #435.
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<!-- Provide a brief summary of your changes -->
## Motivation and Context
Currently there are a couple shortcomings I found in the
server.schema.json:
- It uses `https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema` which is
unfortunately [not supported by VS
Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/165219)
- The Package schema does not require properties that are required by
the service
This means that need to round trip with the publish endpoint (perhaps
spinning CI builds) to get the server.json right. It would be great if
we could shift left and get indications in VS Code easier.
I propose we downgrade the schema to
`http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#`. The only difference for us is
the name of `$def` pointers.
I looked that [SchemaStore](https://github.com/SchemaStore/schemastore)
and it looks like `draft-07` is by far the most popular. I believe the
concession of using an older schema is worth it to get VS Code editor
hints.
Schema version | Count in SchemaStore
-- | --
`http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#` | 292
`http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#` | 1972
`https://json-schema.org/draft/2019-09/schema` | 4
`https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema` | 4
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## Open questions
- [ ] Should package `transport` actually be required? Or should `stdio`
be assumed?
- [ ] Should package `registry_base_url` be required? All of the
examples have it it's not required by the publish endpoint.
## How Has This Been Tested?
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tested? -->
I have tried the new schema inside VS Code and I get helpful warning.
For example, these are the warnings for the old schema.
<img width="1561" height="919" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/474170b8-acf8-4dca-a3d9-66c68c0d1902"
/>
I have run these:
`go run .\tools\validate-examples\main.go`
`go run .\tools\validate-schemas\main.go `
## Breaking Changes
I don't think these are breaking changes. I am expressing what the
publish endpoint enforces at runtime.
## Types of changes
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the boxes that apply: -->
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to change)
- [x] Documentation update
## Checklist
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that apply. -->
- [ ] I have read the [MCP
Documentation](https://modelcontextprotocol.io)
- [ ] My code follows the repository's style guidelines
- [ ] New and existing tests pass locally
- [ ] I have added appropriate error handling
- [x] I have added or updated documentation as needed
## Additional context
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Validates that server versions are not ranges.
**NB:** This also introduces `validateVersion` as a check on the
top-level `ValidateServerJSON`, as previously we were only checking
version ranges of packages via `validatePackageField` (i.e. `latest`
would have still been a valid top level server version), despite #413's
wording suggesting otherwise.
## Motivation and Context
Solves https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/issues/415
## How Has This Been Tested?
Tests added in `internal/validators/validators_test.go`
`make check` is clean.
## Breaking Changes
As per @domdomegg's comment, we should
> check nobody has done this in the existing registry data (if they
have, we should explore and understand why people have done this / if
it's valid etc.).
## Types of changes
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- [x] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to change)
- [x] Documentation update
## Checklist
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- [x] I have read the [MCP
Documentation](https://modelcontextprotocol.io)
- [x] My code follows the repository's style guidelines
- [x] New and existing tests pass locally
- [x] I have added appropriate error handling
- [x] I have added or updated documentation as needed
## Additional context
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Adds optional website_url field to the server.json schema allowing
publishers to provide a url to the server's homepage, documentation, or
project website. This provides a central link for users to learn more
about the server. Particularly useful when the server has custom
installation instructions or setup requirements.
Issue: #183
PR: #130
Discussion: #274
## Motivation and Context
This change addresses the need identified in #130, #183 and #274 for a
standardized way to direct users to an official landing page similar to
`homepage` used in NPM
([example](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@modelcontextprotocol/sdk)). It
is also serves as a viable option for MCP Servers that don't follow
typical package manager patterns (e.g., embedded in a Desktop app).
## How Has This Been Tested?
- Schema validation: All 13 example server.json files validate
successfully against the updated schema
- Go validator tests: Added additional test cases covering URL format
validation and namespace matching
- Run all checks: Updated example files to work with anonymous
publishing and verified `make check` passes
## Breaking Changes
None. The website_url field is optional and backward compatible with
existing server.json files.
## Types of changes
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [x] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to change)
- [x] Documentation update
## Checklist
- [x] I have read the [MCP
Documentation](https://modelcontextprotocol.io)
- [x] My code follows the repository's style guidelines
- [x] New and existing tests pass locally
- [x] I have added appropriate error handling
- [x] I have added or updated documentation as needed
## Additional context
Security considerations:
- Website URL validation enforces that the domain matches the
publisher's reverse-DNS namespace
- HTTP/HTTPS protocols are required (no file:// or other schemes)
- Validation is consistent with existing remote URL validation patterns
## Summary
Simplified the schema structure by:
- Replacing `version_detail.version` with direct `version` field
- Removing unused `release_date` field from seed data
- Updating all API types, models, and tests to match new structure
- Maintaining backwards compatibility in API responses
This change makes the schema more intuitive and reduces nesting depth.
## Summary
- Add comprehensive security warnings to the `Argument` type in
server.schema.json
- Warn about command injection risks from user-provided input in
arguments
- Include concrete example of malicious payload (`;rm -rf
~/Development`)
- Recommend non-shell execution methods and user consent for safer
command execution
Fixes#41
## Summary
Updates the `_meta` field structure to be compliant with the MCP
specification by using proper `prefix/name` format for vendor
extensions.
### Changes
- **Registry metadata**: `io.modelcontextprotocol.registry` →
`io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official`
- **Publisher metadata**: `publisher` →
`io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/publisher-provided`
- **Database migration**: Updates indexes to use new field paths
- **Updated all code**: Service layer, validators, tests, and seed data
### Format Before
```json
{
"_meta": {
"publisher": { "license": "MIT" },
"io.modelcontextprotocol.registry": { "id": "...", "is_latest": true }
}
}
```
### Format After
```json
{
"_meta": {
"io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/publisher-provided": { "license": "MIT" },
"io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official": { "id": "...", "is_latest": true }
}
}
```
This resolves the naming collision with the planned top-level
`publisher` field and ensures compliance with MCP specification
requirements.
Fixes#356
## Summary
Implements mandatory file hash validation for MCPB (MCP Bundle) packages
to ensure file integrity and security.
## Changes
- **Validator enforcement**: MCPB packages now require `file_sha256`
field at publish time
- **Test coverage**: Updated all MCPB test cases to include valid
SHA-256 hashes
- **Documentation**: Updated publisher guide and schema to reflect hash
requirement
- **Error handling**: Clear error message when hash is missing
## Security Impact
This ensures the complete security workflow for MCPB packages:
1. Authors generate and provide SHA-256 hashes when publishing
2. Registry validates hash is present (but doesn't verify content)
3. MCP clients validate hash matches downloaded file before installation
Fixes#351
## Motivation and Context
Docs currently don't have very clear organisation, and don't explain
core flows.
This fixes#89 (although we still might want to push these to
`https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/`), based on the plan there.
One minor change from that plan is that I merged tutorials and guides,
because they ended up basically being duplicates which I thought would
be annoying for us to keep in sync. Additionally in the Diátaxis
framework, tutorials and guides are separated by whether they are
focused on acquisition of skills (e.g. in a learning environment) or
application of skills (e.g. in a work environment). I expect the
registry to be something that will be used occasionally in a work
environment, rather than a fundamental 'learnable' skill so I think it's
reasonable not to have tutorials and fold these into guides.
## How Has This Been Tested?
- Read through all these updated docs
- Unit and integration tests (that previously used examples.md and use
the schema) working
- Ran `npx markdown-link-check .` to check all the links work
## Breaking Changes
Links to old docs will break, but I don't think there are any. All
internal links have been checked and updated.
## Types of changes
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the boxes that apply: -->
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to change)
- [x] Documentation update
