Document the packkit-mcp release process#9
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Publishing the MCP server touches four surfaces (npm, the official MCP registry, Glama, and the awesome-mcp-servers listing) and several steps fail in non-obvious ways. Capture the whole process while it's fresh: - which listings exist and what updates each - the four version values that must stay in sync (package.json, mcpName, server.json x2, server.js) - what release.yml already automates (npm) vs what stays manual (server.json, mcp-publisher, Glama rebuild) - the known-good Glama build config (Glama generates its own Dockerfile; mcp/Dockerfile is not what it builds) - gotchas: case-sensitive io.github.DanMat namespace, mcpName ownership check, the 100-char description limit, npm-before-registry ordering, and E404-on-publish actually meaning expired npm auth Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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packkit-mcpgets published and to every place it's listed, because several of these steps fail in non-obvious ways and we rediscovered each of them the hard way.mcp/RELEASING.mdcovers:mcp/package.json,server.json, andmcp/server.js.mcp/Dockerfileis not what it builds — so the working values are recorded.io.github.DanMat, lowercase 403s),mcpNamemust match byte-for-byte and a wrong one burns an npm version permanently,descriptionis capped at 100 chars, npm publish must precedemcp-publisher publish,E404from npm usually means expired auth rather than a missing package, and awesome-mcp-servers requires a passing Glama listing plus the score badge.mcp/README.mdpicks up links to the registry and Glama listings, and points at the new doc.🤖 Generated with Claude Code