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MCP Publisher Tool - Development

CLI tool for publishing MCP servers to the registry.

These docs are for contributors. See the Publisher User Guide for end-user documentation.

Quick Development Setup

# Build the tool
make publisher

# Test locally 
make dev-compose  # Start local registry
./bin/mcp-publisher init
./bin/mcp-publisher login none --registry=http://localhost:8080
./bin/mcp-publisher publish --registry=http://localhost:8080

Architecture

Commands

  • init - Generate server.json templates with auto-detection
  • login - Handle authentication (github, dns, http, none)
  • publish - Validate and upload servers to registry
  • logout - Clear stored credentials

Authentication Providers

  • github - Interactive OAuth flow
  • github-oidc - CI/CD with GitHub Actions
  • dns - Domain verification via DNS TXT records
  • http - Domain verification via HTTPS endpoints
  • none - No auth (testing only)

Signing Providers

Optional: enables dns and http methods to sign out-of-process without direct access to the private key.

  • google-kms - Google KMS signing
  • azure-key-vault - Azure Key Vault signing

Key Files

  • main.go - CLI setup and command routing
  • commands/ - Command implementations with auto-detection logic
  • auth/ - Authentication provider implementations
  • build.sh - Cross-platform build script