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feat(ci): publish to the Official MCP Registry on release, via OIDC - #829
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The registry listing is the last unshipped distribution channel, and the one that feeds the others: PulseMCP ingests it and GitHub's MCP gallery is built on it. It was documented as a manual three-command sequence that nobody had run. Ordering is why this hangs off `release: published` rather than the tag push. mcp-publisher proves namespace ownership by reading the `mcp-name:` token out of the PUBLISHED PyPI README, and PyPI metadata is frozen per release, so the wheel has to be up first. release.yml publishes to PyPI and only then creates the GitHub Release, so by the time this fires the token is live. Auth is GitHub Actions OIDC. No personal access token is created, stored, or handed to a third-party service — the runner exchanges its own short-lived identity token, which is why the job takes `id-token: write` and nothing else. The mcp-publisher download is pinned by version AND sha256: that job publishes publicly under io.github.ffroliva while holding an OIDC write scope, so a moved upstream tag must not be able to change the binary that does it. workflow_dispatch covers the re-run case — a release whose PyPI upload succeeded but whose registry publish did not. `validate` runs first on both paths, so a bad server.json stops before anything is sent. Not automated, deliberately: `init`. It only writes a template server.json, refuses when a real one exists, and exits 1 (see #827). Both triggers resolve the workflow from the default branch, so this goes live when it reaches main at the next release. v0.75.0 itself still needs either one manual publish or the arrival of v0.76.0; DISTRIBUTION.md says so rather than implying the channel is already shipped. Verified: yaml parses; `zizmor --offline --min-severity low` clean over the new file and over .github/workflows/ as a whole; doc links, hygiene, website mirror and PII gates green. mcp-publisher 1.8.1 `validate` already passes against the live registry on this server.json.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds a GitHub Actions workflow that validates and publishes ChangesMCP Registry publication
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Feature Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Normal tagged releases will not publish to the Official MCP Registry automatically, leaving publication dependent on manual dispatch. Correct the release-to-publisher invocation before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In @.github/workflows/mcp-registry.yml:
- Around line 3-6: Update the release publication flow involving
softprops/action-gh-release and the MCP registry workflow so normal
tag-triggered releases also publish to the registry; use a PAT or GitHub App
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Ensure normal releases trigger registry publication. The tag-triggered .github/workflows/release.yml creates the GitHub Release with softprops/action-gh-release and no token input, so the action uses github.token (GITHUB_TOKEN). GitHub does not start workflows for release events created with that token. Therefore, .github/workflows/mcp-registry.yml will not run automatically after normal releases; workflow_dispatch remains only a manual fallback. Use a PAT or GitHub App token for release creation, or invoke the registry publisher from the release workflow.
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In @.github/workflows/mcp-registry.yml around lines 3 - 6, Update the release
publication flow involving softprops/action-gh-release and the MCP registry
workflow so normal tag-triggered releases also publish to the registry; use a
PAT or GitHub App token for release creation, or explicitly invoke the registry
publisher from the release workflow, while retaining workflow_dispatch as a
manual fallback.
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CI caught what no checklist names: `docker/Dockerfile`'s `ARG GFLOW_VERSION`. The gate that caught it shipped in #830, in this same release. tests/test_dockerfile_version_pin.py AssertionError: docker/Dockerfile installs gflow-cli==0.75.0 but this repo is at 0.76.0 That makes seven version sites across four disagreeing lists (#839): the four in skills/release/SKILL.md step 6, plus server.json (x2) and uv.lock which only check_repo_hygiene.py knows, plus this one which only its own test knows. SonarCloud's red was downstream, not independent — "No report was found for sonar.python.coverage.reportPaths using pattern coverage.xml", because the test job died before writing one. What was NOT bumped, deliberately: - docker/README.md's "Verified on this image" block and its what-is-verified table quote MEASUREMENTS — `gflow_cli : 0.75.0`, `✅ measured — gflow, version 0.75.0`. The container was not re-measured for 0.76.0 (it needs a WSL-integrated Docker host, recorded as a named blocker in LIVE_VERIFICATION_v0.76.0.md), so editing those numbers to match would fabricate a run. A quoted measurement that tracks pyproject.toml is not a measurement. The staleness is now stated in the file instead, next to the numbers, with what would settle it. The test's own docstring describes exactly this failure — the table "quietly became a false claim" — so making it true by editing would have inverted the gate's intent while satisfying it. - "as of v0.75.0" in docker-compose.yml, "Fixed in v0.75.0" in KNOWN_ISSUES, and the measured build output in docs/CONTAINER.md are all historical. Also updated: DISTRIBUTION.md's Official MCP Registry row said "ready — submit once v0.75.0 is on PyPI". #829 automates it and ships here, so the first run is this release's own job. Gates re-run green: hygiene, doc links, website PII, website mirror, council memory, release artifacts, and the docker pin test (4 passed).
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…n a wrong ref Two defects, both found by v0.76.0 — the first release that could exercise the automation #829 shipped. 1. `release: published` never fired. `release.yml` created the Release with the default GITHUB_TOKEN, and GitHub starts no workflow runs from GITHUB_TOKEN-created events. Measured on v0.76.0: a real Release published, the workflow file on the default branch, and zero runs ever. Structurally dead, not mistimed — it would not have started working at the next release. The Release is now created with RELEASE_PAT, a fine-grained repo-scoped token (Contents: read+write, nothing else), so the event is user-created. The registry is still authenticated with GitHub Actions OIDC. No token is handed to the registry; the PAT exists only to create the Release. It expires (366 days max) and its expiry reproduces this bug silently, so that failure mode is written down beside the token and in the docs. 2. A dispatch could publish a superseded version, green. workflow_dispatch publishes whatever server.json says on the dispatched ref; dispatching develop after the v0.76.0 tag but before the back-merge republished 0.75.0 and succeeded. The dispatch now requires a `version` input and asserts it against both version fields in server.json. The version context is read in `env:`, not in the `run:` block, per the blanket github.*-in-run ban in test_workflow_hardening.py. Not verified: the trigger itself cannot be exercised until this reaches the default branch and a release event occurs — v0.77.0 is its first real run. CI-only change; no CLI, MCP or Flow surface touched, so no e2e applies. Refs #841
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Three surfaces stop lying to you, and the last unshipped distribution channel starts publishing itself. - An account with no Flow access is told so, via its own exit 39, instead of being shown a selector-drift error and invited to file a bug (ffroliva#833). - The containerised sign-in works on Windows and no longer points at a service that does not exist; the image pins its own version (ffroliva#830). - An MCP agent's `project_name` is finally consumed — the worker had been reading a key nothing ever wrote (ffroliva#628). - The Official MCP Registry publishes itself on release via OIDC (ffroliva#829), and mcpservers.org approved the listing (ffroliva#834). Version bumped in all six sites the hygiene gate checks: pyproject.toml, src/gflow_cli/__init__.py, .codex-plugin/plugin.json, plugins/gflow/.claude-plugin/plugin.json, server.json (x2) and uv.lock. Note for the next cut: skills/release/SKILL.md step 6 lists only the first three plus the plugin manifest — server.json and uv.lock are not in it, and only the hygiene gate caught them. That list wants fixing separately. Live verification: docs/LIVE_VERIFICATION_v0.76.0.md. $0, reads only. The decisive arm is ffroliva#833's NEGATIVE control, run first-hand rather than relayed — `flow-pinhole-unavailable-screen` is 0 on both ffroliva and denon82 while `aisandbox-root` is 1, so the guard does not fire on accounts that have Flow access and the zero is a real absence rather than a page that never booted. Both accounts were in the /about state, which is where a presence/absence signal would have been mimicked, and this one was not. Recorded as NOT verified, with reasons: the Docker sign-in needs a WSL-integrated Docker host; the MCP Registry publish cannot be observed until this tag reaches main, since both triggers resolve the workflow from the default branch. ffroliva#791 is NOT in this release. A fix passed eight council dimensions and was then withdrawn: it read the rendered DOM and claimed the signal was server-attested, which ffroliva#756 refutes — the /about hop is decided client-side with zero requests to Flow, and the backend grants access while the frontend declines to open it. The probe would have reported authenticated users as logged out. PR ffroliva#835 stays a draft. Gates at this tree: ruff, ruff format, repo hygiene, doc links, website PII, website mirror, council memory, release artifacts, uv lock --check — all pass. Wheel builds as 0.76.0: 138 entries, zero ZIP duplicates, console script present.
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…ct my own claim I wrote "automated — first run is v0.76.0's own release job" into DISTRIBUTION.md during the v0.76.0 cut. It is false, and I found out by checking rather than by someone reporting it. Measured on v0.76.0: a real GitHub Release was published (draft=false, prerelease=false, 06:41:28Z), mcp-registry.yml is on the default branch, and `gh run list --workflow=mcp-registry.yml` returned zero runs, ever. The cause is the token, not timing. release.yml creates the Release with softprops/action-gh-release using the default GITHUB_TOKEN, and GitHub does not start workflow runs from GITHUB_TOKEN-created events. The trigger is structurally dead and will not start working at the next release. ffroliva#841. Also records the ordering trap, because it bit during this same release and is recurring while ffroliva#841 is open: `workflow_dispatch` publishes whatever server.json says ON THE DISPATCHED REF. I dispatched from develop before the back-merge landed and it published 0.75.0 — successfully, green, pointing at a superseded version. Corrected by re-dispatching after ffroliva#840, and the registry now carries 0.76.0 active. So the real sequence until ffroliva#841 is fixed is: tag -> release -> back-merge -> dispatch. Nothing enforces that order, which is why it is now written down next to the step rather than left as tribal knowledge. Refs ffroliva#829, ffroliva#841
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Summary
The Official MCP Registry is the last unshipped distribution channel, and the one that feeds the others — PulseMCP ingests it, and GitHub's MCP gallery is built on it. It was documented as a manual three-command sequence that had never been run.
This makes it happen on its own, on every release.
Why
release: publishedand not the tag pushmcp-publisherproves namespace ownership by reading themcp-name:token out of the published PyPI README, and PyPI metadata is frozen per release — so the wheel has to be up first.release.ymlruns build → Publish to PyPI → Create GitHub Release, so by the timerelease: publishedfires, the token is live.Why OIDC and not a token
mcp-publisher loginoffers a device-code flow, a-token <PAT>flag, andgithub-oidc. This uses OIDC: no personal access token is created, stored, or handed to a third-party service. The runner exchanges its own short-lived identity token, which is why the job takesid-token: writeand nothing else.The
mcp-publisherdownload is pinned by version and sha256. That job publishes publicly underio.github.ffrolivawhile holding an OIDC write scope, so a moved upstream tag must not be able to change the binary that does it.workflow_dispatchcovers the re-run case: a release whose PyPI upload succeeded but whose registry publish did not.validateruns first on both paths, so a badserver.jsonstops before anything is sent.Not automated, deliberately:
init. It only writes a templateserver.json, refuses when a real one exists, and exits 1 — see #827.One honest caveat, and it is in the docs
Both triggers resolve the workflow file from the default branch, so this goes live when it reaches
mainat the next release.v0.75.0itself still needs either one manual publish or the arrival ofv0.76.0.DISTRIBUTION.mdnow says exactly that rather than implying the channel is already shipped.Test plan
zizmor --offline --min-severity lowon the new file — No findings to reportzizmorover all of.github/workflows/— clean, no regressionmcp-publisher 1.8.1 validatealready passes against the live registry on thisserver.json(verified locally)mcp-publisher_linux_amd64.tar.gzv1.8.1 computed from the downloaded artefact, not copied from a pagecheck_doc_links.py·check_repo_hygiene.py·check_website_docs_pii.py·generate_website_docs.py --check— greenrelease.yml: SHA-pinned actions,contents: readat workflow level with write scopes at job level,persist-credentials: falseE2E scope: no Flow surface touched — this is CI plumbing and docs. The workflow itself cannot be executed until it is on the default branch, which is stated above rather than claimed as verified.
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