publisher

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)

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