feat: add MCP registry publishing to release pipeline

- Add server.json manifest for MCP server registry
- Add publish-mcp-registry job with jq-based version bumping
- Add Docker latest tag push alongside version tag
- Add empty changelog guard for GitHub releases
- Add mcp-name marker and registry section to README
- Add MCP server name LABEL to Dockerfile

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: luarss

.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml

@@ -35,4 +35,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           ORFS_VER=$(make --no-print-directory print-ORFS_VERSION)
           docker tag ghcr.io/luarss/openroad-mcp:$ORFS_VER ghcr.io/luarss/openroad-mcp:"$IMAGE_TAG"
+          docker tag ghcr.io/luarss/openroad-mcp:$ORFS_VER ghcr.io/luarss/openroad-mcp:latest
           docker push ghcr.io/luarss/openroad-mcp:"$IMAGE_TAG"
+          docker push ghcr.io/luarss/openroad-mcp:latest

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ jobs:
           VERSION="${GITHUB_REF_NAME#v}"
           # Extract the section for this version from CHANGELOG.md
           NOTES=$(awk "/^## \[$VERSION\]/{found=1; next} found && /^## /{exit} found{print}" CHANGELOG.md)
+          if [ -z "$NOTES" ]; then
+            echo "::warning::No changelog entry found for version $VERSION"
+            NOTES="Release $VERSION"
+          fi
           echo "notes<<EOF" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           echo "$NOTES" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           echo "EOF" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
@@ -101,3 +105,31 @@ jobs:
     with:
       image_tag: ${{ github.ref_name }}
     secrets: inherit
+
+  publish-mcp-registry:
+    name: Publish to MCP Registry
+    needs: [publish-pypi, publish-docker]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+      contents: read
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Install mcp-publisher
+        run: |
+          curl -L "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/releases/latest/download/mcp-publisher_$(uname -s | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')_$(uname -m | sed 's/x86_64/amd64/;s/aarch64/arm64/').tar.gz" | tar xz mcp-publisher
+
+      - name: Authenticate to MCP Registry
+        run: ./mcp-publisher login github-oidc
+
+      - name: Install jq
+        run: sudo apt-get update -qq && sudo apt-get install -qq -y jq
+
+      - name: Update version in server.json
+        run: |
+          VERSION="${GITHUB_REF_NAME#v}"
+          jq --arg v "$VERSION" '.version = $v | (.packages[].version) = $v' server.json > server.json.tmp && mv server.json.tmp server.json
+
+      - name: Publish to MCP Registry
+        run: ./mcp-publisher publish

Dockerfile

@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ WORKDIR /app
 COPY --from=builder --chown=appuser:appuser /app/.venv /app/.venv
 COPY --from=builder --chown=appuser:appuser /opt/python /opt/python
 
+LABEL io.modelcontextprotocol.server.name=io.github.luarss/openroad-mcp
+
 USER appuser
 
 ENV PATH="/app/.venv/bin:/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/tools/install/OpenROAD/bin:/OpenROAD-flow-scripts/tools/install/yosys/bin:$PATH" \

README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # OpenROAD MCP Server
 
+<!-- mcp-name: io.github.luarss/openroad-mcp -->
+
 A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for interacting with OpenROAD and ORFS (OpenROAD Flow Scripts).
 
 ## Demo
@@ -104,6 +106,17 @@ Follow the [Gemini MCP install guide](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/mode
 
 </details>
 
+<details>
+<summary><b>MCP Registry</b></summary>
+
+Once published to the [MCP Registry](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), clients can discover and install directly:
+
+```bash
+uvx openroad-mcp
+```
+
+</details>
+
 ## Verification
 
 After configuration, restart your MCP client and verify the MCP server is running:

server.json

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
+  "name": "io.github.luarss/openroad-mcp",
+  "description": "The OpenROAD MCP server - interactive EDA sessions via Model Context Protocol",
+  "repository": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/luarss/openroad-mcp",
+    "source": "github"
+  },
+  "version": "0.3.0",
+  "packages": [
+    {
+      "registryType": "pypi",
+      "identifier": "openroad-mcp",
+      "version": "0.3.0",
+      "transport": { "type": "stdio" },
+      "runtimeHint": "uvx"
+    },
+    {
+      "registryType": "oci",
+      "identifier": "ghcr.io/luarss/openroad-mcp",
+      "version": "0.3.0",
+      "transport": { "type": "stdio" },
+      "runtimeHint": "docker"
+    }
+  ]
+}