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fix(ci): make the MCP Registry publish actually fire, without a credential to rotate (#841) - #843
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe release workflow now calls the MCP Registry workflow directly after a successful build and PyPI publication. Stable tags only invoke registry publishing. The registry workflow accepts a required version input, validates versions, and uses OIDC authentication without ChangesMCP Registry release automation
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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 A dispatch could publish a superseded version, green.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
…ed secret Eight-dimension council review of #843 found five real defects, three of them introduced by the first commit. Applied in full. Introduced here and now fixed: - The mcp-registry.yml header described `release.yml` calling this workflow with `needs: build-and-publish`. There is no `workflow_call` anywhere in the repo — that text survived a mid-PR change of approach from a reusable workflow to the PAT route, and it replaced the CORRECT explanation it had deleted. Ordering is guaranteed by step order inside `build-and-publish` (PyPI upload precedes Release creation). Caught by D1, D2, D9, D11 and D14 independently. - "There is no PAT and no device-code flow" sat seven lines below the line introducing RELEASE_PAT. Scoped to what is actually true: no token is ever handed to the REGISTRY; the PAT only creates the Release. - The expiry warning was backwards in three places. An expired token 401s on release creation, so the job goes red and no Release exists — loud, and the opposite of #841. The PR body already said this; the diff contradicted it. Found by the council, latent before this PR armed it: - `release: published` fires for PRE-releases too, which GitHub documents explicitly, and release.yml marks every a/b/rc/`-` tag as one. The repo has shipped ten such tags. Repairing the trigger would have let a v0.77.0rc1 become the registry's ACTIVE listing — the feed PulseMCP and GitHub's MCP gallery ingest. The publish job now skips pre-releases. - A deleted or renamed RELEASE_PAT is the one genuinely silent path back to #841: an empty secret, an action falling back to its default token, a Release created under GITHUB_TOKEN, every step green. release.yml now asserts the secret is non-empty BEFORE the build, so it fails cheap rather than after an irreversible PyPI upload. Also: - `contents: write` on the release job is now dead privilege — nothing there uses GITHUB_TOKEN for writes. Dropped to `read`. - The guard reads `github.event.inputs.version`, not the bare `inputs` context, which is documented for workflow_dispatch/workflow_call but not for a release event and cannot be rehearsed here. - The guard checks every `packages[].version`, not just `[0]`, and prechecks that server.json exists so its own diagnostic is not lost to a jq error. Replayed across five cases, including the v0.76.0 mis-publish. - RELEASE.md documents the token, its 366-day expiry, the two failure shapes, and by-hand recovery when the job fails after the PyPI upload. The runbook named none of them. - Three regression tests in test_workflow_hardening.py. Each was verified to FAIL against the pre-fix state — the file's own charter is that a guard never seen red is not a guard. `Closes #841` downgraded to `Refs #841` on the previous commit: the repaired trigger has still never fired, and AGENTS.md reserves Closes for verified work.
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…a PAT Replaces the token route with the one that needs no credential. Same two defects fixed, same council findings kept; only the trigger mechanism changes. `release.yml` now calls `mcp-registry.yml` (`uses:` + `needs: build-and-publish`) rather than relying on `on: release: published`. There is no event, so there is nothing for GitHub's "no workflow runs from GITHUB_TOKEN-created events" rule to block — which is what made the trigger structurally dead in #841. Why the PAT was dropped, having been built and reviewed first: a fine-grained token expires after at most 366 days, so it schedules a failure on a path that runs a handful of times a year, and the person who hits it will not have this context. The bug being fixed was precisely a release-path failure nobody noticed. `needs:` also enforces the PyPI-before-registry ordering structurally — mcp-publisher reads its ownership token from the published PyPI README — where before it rested on two files agreeing about step order. The repository secret has been deleted; nothing in the repo references it. Costs of the switch, stated plainly: - `contents: write` returns to the release job, because GITHUB_TOKEN creates the Release again. The least-privilege gain from the PAT route is given back. - A registry failure now reddens the release run rather than being decoupled from it. Recovery is a dispatch either way, and RELEASE.md documents it. Council findings carried over unchanged: - Pre-releases are excluded. release.yml fires on every `v*.*.*` tag including rc, and an rc must never become the registry's ACTIVE listing. The call is skipped for them and the workflow refuses a pre-release version reaching it by hand. - The prerelease classification now has ONE definition — a `tag_kind` step feeding both the Release flag and the registry gate. As two copies of the same four-clause expression they would have drifted, and the two consumers disagreeing is silent. Verified to agree with the expression it replaces across all 97 tags in the repo plus 4 synthetic cases. - The `version` input is required on both triggers and asserted against every `packages[].version` in server.json, with server.json's existence prechecked so the diagnostic is not lost to a jq error. - Docs and the release runbook describe the call route, and say why an event trigger must not be restored. Five regression tests in test_workflow_hardening.py, each verified to FAIL against a broken variant: calling job removed; `needs:` removed; the dead `release:` trigger restored; the version input made optional; the prerelease gate dropped; the classification inlined back into the step. Refs #841
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In `@docs/DISTRIBUTION.md`:
- Around line 165-167: Update the release-trigger description in the
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Document the reusable-workflow trigger.
.github/workflows/mcp-registry.yml uses workflow_call and workflow_dispatch; release.yml invokes it directly. The release: published wording contradicts this flow and can misdirect recovery efforts. Replace it with the reusable-workflow call and retain the manual dispatch note.
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In `@docs/DISTRIBUTION.md` around lines 165 - 167, Update the release-trigger
description in the distribution documentation to state that mcp-registry.yml is
invoked directly as a reusable workflow by release.yml, while retaining the
workflow_dispatch manual-trigger note; remove the contradictory “release:
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Summary
Two defects from #841, both surfaced by v0.76.0 — the first release that could exercise the automation #829 shipped.
1. The registry publish never ran. Not once, on any release.
mcp-registry.ymltriggered onrelease: published, butrelease.ymlcreates the Release with the defaultGITHUB_TOKEN, and GitHub starts no workflow runs fromGITHUB_TOKEN-created events. Measured on v0.76.0: a real Release published, the workflow file on the default branch, andgh run list --workflow=mcp-registry.ymlreturning zero runs, ever. Structurally dead, not mistimed — it would not have started working at the next release either.release.ymlnow calls the workflow (uses:+needs: build-and-publish) instead of relying on an event. No event, so nothing for the token rule to block, and no credential to rotate.2. A dispatch could publish a superseded version, green. A run publishes whatever
server.jsonsays on the ref it runs from. Dispatchingdevelopafter the v0.76.0 tag but before the back-merge landed republished0.75.0, successfully. Both triggers now require aversioninput, asserted against every version field inserver.json.Why not a PAT — it was built first, then dropped
A user-owned PAT on the Release step also fixes defect 1, and this PR carried that implementation through a full council review before switching. It was dropped on maintenance grounds: a fine-grained token expires after at most 366 days, which schedules a failure on a path that runs a handful of times a year, and whoever hits it will not have this context. The bug being fixed was precisely a release-path failure that nobody noticed.
needs:additionally enforces the orderingmcp-publisherrequires — it reads themcp-name:token from the published PyPI README, so the wheel must be up first — where previously that rested on two files agreeing about step order. The call also runs against the release tag, so the wrong-ref hazard cannot arise on the automated path at all.The
RELEASE_PATrepository secret has been deleted. Nothing in the repo references it.Two costs, stated plainly rather than buried:
contents: writereturns to the release job, sinceGITHUB_TOKENcreates the Release again. The least-privilege gain from the PAT route is given back.RELEASE.mddocuments it.What the council found (8 dimensions)
Three of the five findings were defects I introduced, which is the honest headline.
release.ymlfires on everyv*.*.*tag includingrc— repairing the publish would have let a pre-release become the registry's active listing, the one PulseMCP and GitHub's MCP gallery ingest. Latent before; the fix would have armed it.Findings 1–3 are moot under the call route (the comments they targeted are gone). 4 and 5 survive and are fixed here — 4 was the most valuable thing the review produced.
D14 argued the call route was the smaller, more durable design while the PAT was still in place. That argument is what this PR now implements.
One reviewer claim I rejected: D11 said
release:events run the workflow from the default branch. GitHub's events reference givesGITHUB_REF=refs/tags/<tag_name>forrelease; the default-branch rule belongs toworkflow_dispatchandgollum. D1 was right, and the false claim was mine.Verified
server.jsonabsent → exit 1;packages[]drifting from top-level → exit 1. An earlier revision had a broken jq diagnostic — caught by this replay, not by review.needs:removed → red; deadrelease:trigger restored → red; version input optional → red; prerelease gate dropped → red; classification inlined back → red. Restored → 38 pass. The file's charter is that a guard never seen red is not a guard.ruff,ruff format,pyright, and all five doc/hygiene gates clean.RELEASE_PATreferences remain.NOT verified — named blocker
The repaired wiring has still never run. It needs a real tag push, so v0.77.0 is its first exercise.
A safe pre-check exists once this merges: push a throwaway tag that does not match
v*.*.*… which by construction runs nothing. The honest statement is that this design is only exercisable by a real release, and that is a genuine trade-off versus the PAT route, where a throwaway Release could have rehearsed it. Recorded rather than glossed.Hence
Refs #841, notCloses— AGENTS.md reservesClosesfor verified work.Test plan
check_repo_hygiene/check_doc_links/check_website_docs_pii/generate_website_docs --check/check_council_memoryruff check·ruff format --check·pyright srcpytest -q tests/scripts/ tests/test_server_json.py tests/test_documentation_gate.py tests/test_playwright_pin.py tests/test_dockerfile_version_pin.py tests/test_glama_build_spec.py→ 375 passedE2E scope: CI workflows and docs only — no CLI leaf, option, exit code, error string, MCP tool or Flow surface, so no e2e applies and MCP parity (step 1b) does not apply.
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CHANGELOG.mdunder## [Unreleased]— the silent-mismerge shape. Hand-check the bullets on whichever lands second.Refs #841
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