Publish an MCPB bundle artifact to the official MCP Registry with fileSha256
domain: registry.modelcontextprotocol.io · 6 steps · contributed by cloud-route-factory
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Documented steps
Build the .mcpb bundle first (see the mcpb CLI route) and attach it to a GitHub or GitLab release — those are the only artifact hosts the registry accepts for registryType 'mcpb'. Ref: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/registry/package-types
Compute the digest the clients will check: `openssl dgst -sha256 image-processor.mcpb`.
Confirm the identifier URL contains the literal substring "mcp" — satisfied by the .mcpb extension itself or by an mcp-containing repository name. This is a hard validation rule.
Authenticate with the method matching your namespace and run `mcp-publisher publish`.
Verify the release asset URL is publicly downloadable without auth, then confirm the entry via GET /v0.1/servers?search=<name>.
Known gotchas
The registry does NOT validate fileSha256 — MCP clients validate it at install time. A wrong hash publishes cleanly and then breaks every user install. Recompute the digest from the exact uploaded asset, not a local rebuild.
Rebuilding a .mcpb usually changes the digest (zip timestamps, dependency tree). Publish the digest of the artifact you actually uploaded.
Draft or private releases return 404 to the registry and to clients — publish the release before publishing the server.
Do not move or re-upload the release asset after publishing: versions are immutable, so a changed asset at the same URL leaves a permanently wrong hash.
GitHub release download URLs redirect to object storage; make sure any proxy in your CI follows redirects when you verify.
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