Add container label & improve registry script (#1143)

* Add publish script and formed server file

* Add dockerfile label and clean script

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Co-authored-by: Copilot <[email protected]>

Author: MattBabbage

.github/workflows/registry-releaser.yml

@@ -16,33 +16,38 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v5
 
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: "stable"
+        
       - name: Fetch tags
         run: git fetch --tags
 
       - name: Install MCP Publisher
         run: |
-          curl -L "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/releases/download/v1.0.0/mcp-publisher_1.0.0_$(uname -s | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')_$(uname -m | sed 's/x86_64/amd64/;s/aarch64/arm64/').tar.gz" | tar xz mcp-publisher
+          git clone --quiet https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry publisher-repo
+          cd publisher-repo && make publisher > /dev/null && cd ..
+          cp publisher-repo/bin/mcp-publisher . && chmod +x mcp-publisher
 
       - name: Update server.json version
         run: |
           if [[ "${{ github.ref_type }}" == "tag" ]]; then
-            # Use the tag that triggered the workflow
             TAG_VERSION=$(echo "${{ github.ref_name }}" | sed 's/^v//')
-            echo "Using triggered tag: ${{ github.ref_name }}"
           else
-            # Fallback to latest tag (for manual triggers)
             LATEST_TAG=$(git tag --sort=-version:refname | grep -E '^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-.*)?$' | head -n 1)
-            if [ -z "$LATEST_TAG" ]; then
-              echo "❌ No release tag found. Cannot determine version."
-              exit 1
-            fi
+            [ -z "$LATEST_TAG" ] && { echo "No release tag found"; exit 1; }
             TAG_VERSION=$(echo "$LATEST_TAG" | sed 's/^v//')
             echo "Using latest tag: $LATEST_TAG"
           fi
           sed -i "s/\${VERSION}/$TAG_VERSION/g" server.json
-          echo "Updated server.json version to $TAG_VERSION"
+          echo "Version: $TAG_VERSION"
 
-      - name: Login to MCP Registry
+      - name: Validate configuration
+        run: |
+          python3 -m json.tool server.json > /dev/null && echo "Configuration valid" || exit 1
+
+      - name: Login to MCP Registry (OIDC)
         run: ./mcp-publisher login github-oidc
 
       - name: Publish to MCP Registry

Dockerfile

@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/go/pkg/mod \
 
 # Make a stage to run the app
 FROM gcr.io/distroless/base-debian12
+
+# Add required MCP server annotation
+LABEL io.modelcontextprotocol.server.name="io.github.github/github-mcp-server"
+
 # Set the working directory
 WORKDIR /server
 # Copy the binary from the build stage

server.json

@@ -12,9 +12,8 @@
     {
       "registryType": "oci",
       "registryBaseUrl": "https://ghcr.io",
-      "identifier": "ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server",
+      "identifier": "github/github-mcp-server",
       "version": "${VERSION}",
-      "runtimeHint": "docker",
       "transport": {
         "type": "stdio"
       },
@@ -62,11 +61,5 @@
         }
       ]
     }
-  ],
-  "remotes": [
-    {
-      "type": "streamable-http",
-      "url": "https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/"
-    }
   ]
 }