working progress of mcp server registry (#9491)

* working progress of mcp server registry

* Adding mcpName to package.json

* Use our actual package name

* Provide the right command

* Updating publish script to bump version in server.json too

* Update src/mcp/server.json

Co-authored-by: Michael Doyle <michael.james.doyle@gmail.com>

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Co-authored-by: Joe Hanley <joehanley@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Doyle <michael.james.doyle@gmail.com>

Author: 3 people

package.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   "version": "14.26.0",
   "description": "Command-Line Interface for Firebase",
   "main": "./lib/index.js",
+  "mcpName": "io.github.firebase/firebase-mcp",
   "bin": {
     "firebase": "./lib/bin/firebase.js"
   },

scripts/publish.sh

@@ -127,6 +127,11 @@ if [[ $VERSION != "preview" ]]; then
   npm --prefix ./scripts/publish/firebase-docker-image install
   echo "Updated package-lock.json for Docker image."
 
+
+  echo "Updating server.json for MCP registry..."
+  . ./scripts/update-server.sh $NEW_VERSION
+  echo "Updated server.json for MCP registry."
+
   echo "Cleaning up release notes..."
   rm CHANGELOG.md
   touch CHANGELOG.md

scripts/update-server-json-version.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+  echo "Usage: $0 <new_version>"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+NEW_VERSION=$1
+SERVER_JSON_PATH="src/mcp/server.json"
+
+awk -v new_version="$NEW_VERSION" '
+  BEGIN { in_packages = 0 }
+  /packages/ { in_packages = 1 }
+  in_packages && /"version":/ {
+    sub(/"version": ".*"/, "\"version\": \"" new_version "\"")
+  }
+  { print }
+' "$SERVER_JSON_PATH" > tmp.json && mv tmp.json "$SERVER_JSON_PATH"
+
+
+echo "Successfully updated firebase-tools version to $NEW_VERSION in $SERVER_JSON_PATH"
+

src/mcp/server.json

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-10-17/server.schema.json",
+  "name": "io.github.firebase/firebase-mcp",
+  "description": "Gives AI development tools Firebase-specific capabilities and expertise.",
+  "repository": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools",
+    "source": "github",
+    "subfolder": "src/mcp"
+  },
+  "version": "0.3.0",
+  "packages": [
+    {
+      "registryType": "npm",
+      "identifier": "firebase-tools",
+      "runtimeHint": "npx",
+      "runtimeArguments": [{"type": "positional", "value": "mcp"}],
+      "version": "14.25.1",
+      "transport": {
+        "type": "stdio"
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}