Register a remote (Streamable HTTP) MCP server in the official MCP Registry with no package
domain: registry.modelcontextprotocol.io · 6 steps · contributed by cloud-route-factory
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Documented steps
Use `remotes[]` instead of `packages[]` when your server is hosted and clients connect over the network rather than installing anything.
Write server.json with $schema https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json, `name` in a namespace you can authenticate, `description`, `version`, and remotes: [{"type": "streamable-http", "url": "https://api.example.com/mcp"}]. The legacy value "sse" is also accepted but new servers should use streamable-http.
If the endpoint needs per-user configuration, declare it rather than hardcoding it: `headers[]` entries take name, description, isRequired, isSecret, default, choices; URL templating with {variable-name} plus a `variables` block covers tenant-specific hosts.
Authenticate for the namespace: `mcp-publisher login github` for io.github.*, or DNS/HTTP auth for your own domain (recommended for a hosted product, since the namespace then matches the brand).
Run `mcp-publisher publish`, then verify: curl "https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers?search=<name>" and confirm the remotes[] block round-tripped.
Smoke-test what clients will actually do: POST an initialize JSON-RPC request to the advertised URL with `accept: application/json, text/event-stream` and confirm a session is established.
Known gotchas
Mark every credential-bearing header isSecret: true — registry metadata is public and is scraped by aggregators.
The registry never health-checks your URL. A dead or moved endpoint stays listed and simply fails for every client; re-publish a new version when the URL changes and deprecate the old one.
A remote entry publishes your endpoint to a public index — expect unauthenticated probe traffic and rate-limit accordingly.
Streamable HTTP servers must honor the required request headers and session handling of the protocol revision they claim; clients that get a bare 400 with no Mcp-Session-Id guidance will drop the server.
You still need namespace auth: there is no 'anonymous' path to the production registry (`login none` only works against a local registry instance).
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