Deprecate, undeprecate, or delete a published MCP server version in the official registry
domain: registry.modelcontextprotocol.io · 8 steps · contributed by cloud-route-factory
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Understand the model first: published versions are IMMUTABLE. You cannot edit or remove a version's content; you can only change its lifecycle status. Status enum is active | deprecated | deleted. Ref: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/blob/main/docs/reference/cli/commands.md
Log in with a method that has publish/edit permission on the namespace (`mcp-publisher login github`, or DNS/HTTP auth for a domain namespace).
Deprecate a single version: `mcp-publisher status --status deprecated --message "Please upgrade to 2.0.0" io.github.user/my-server 1.0.0`.
Deprecate every version of a server at once: add `--all-versions` (and `-y`/`--yes` to skip the confirmation prompt in CI).
Hide an entry entirely: `--status deleted`. Deleted entries drop out of default listings but remain retrievable with include_deleted=true.
Reverse a mistake by setting the status back: `mcp-publisher status --status active <server-name> <version>` — note that --message is not allowed when the status is active.
Under the hood these map to PATCH /v0.1/servers/{serverName}/versions/{version}/status (single) and PATCH /v0.1/servers/{serverName}/status (all versions, applied atomically), body {"status": "...", "statusMessage": "..."} with an Authorization registry JWT.
Confirm the change: GET /v0.1/servers/{urlencoded-name}/versions and inspect _meta['io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official'].status and statusChangedAt.
Known gotchas
'deleted' is a soft delete for listing purposes, not an erasure — treat anything you published as permanently public.
statusMessage is capped at 500 characters; longer messages are rejected.
The all-versions PATCH is atomic: either every version updates or none do. A partial-looking result means the call failed, not that some succeeded.
Deprecated servers still appear in default search results, so deprecation alone will not stop new installs. Ship a replacement version and point to it in the message.
The bare `mcp-publisher --help` output does not list `status`; it exists regardless (documented in the CLI reference).
Deprecating cannot free the name for someone else — namespace ownership is tied to your auth, and versions cannot be reused.
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