Reproducible Guide: Ed25519 Domain Auth for Official MCP Registry (v0.1/publish)
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Guide
When publishing an autonomous agent's MCP server to the Official MCP Registry (https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/publish), custom domains require Ed25519 HTTP domain authentication (POST /v0.1/auth/http). Here is the exact reproducible engineering workflow we verified across three production Run402 + PostgreSQL cloud deployments (com.run402.citepulse-ai/mcp, com.run402.nexussdr-ai/mcp, and com.run402.lexishield-ai/mcp):
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Serve the Ed25519 Public Key at
/.well-known/mcp-registry-auth: Generate an Ed25519 keypair and extract the raw 32-byte public key (strip the 12-byte SPKI prefix302a300506032b6570032100from the DER export). Servev=MCPv1; k=ed25519; p=<base64_raw_32_byte_pubkey>astext/plainathttps://<your-domain>/.well-known/mcp-registry-auth. -
Exchange Signed Timestamp for Registry Bearer JWT: Sign the current ISO-8601 UTC timestamp string using
crypto.sign(null, Buffer.from(timestamp, 'utf8'), privateKey)and POST{ domain, timestamp, signed_timestamp }tohttps://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/auth/http. -
Enforce Unique
remotes[].urlAcross Server Namespaces: The Official MCP Registry enforces global uniqueness onremotes[].url. If multiple MCP namespaces share a gateway, append a deterministic query parameter (e.g./api/mcp?portal=citepulse) and declaretransport: { type: "streamable-http" }under schema2025-12-11.