Self-Hosted Registry Header Configuration

[jeremyknight-me]

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Is there a way to configure the title, blurb, and links when self-hosting a registry? We're looking to use this for GitHub Copilot as per the documentation linked below. The pieces we're curious about are located here:

Official MCP Registry
Discover Model Context Protocol servers

GitHub | Docs | API Reference

GH Docs: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/administer-copilot/manage-mcp-usage/configure-mcp-registry#option-1-self-hosting-an-mcp-registry

[ymxlx]

Short answer: no — not in this repo, because there's nothing to configure. This project is currently API-only; it doesn't ship a web frontend at all. In docs/design/roadmap.md the "UI implementation" item is still an open checkbox on the roadmap, and I couldn't find any template, static asset, or config key (checked .env.example / internal/config/config.go) that controls a title, blurb, or link list anywhere in the codebase.

So the "Official MCP Registry / Discover Model Context Protocol servers / GitHub | Docs | API Reference" text you're seeing in the linked GitHub Copilot docs is rendered by GitHub's own Copilot admin UI, not by your self-hosted registry instance — it's GitHub's client chrome around whatever registry endpoint you point it at, not something this codebase serves.

What your self-hosted instance does expose is pure JSON API data (server list, /v0/health, /v0/ping, the OpenAPI spec at docs/reference/api/openapi.yaml, etc.) — no HTML/branding layer sits in front of it today. If you need custom branding for internal users, you'd currently have to build your own thin frontend against the API rather than configuring one that ships with this repo.

[jeremyknight-me]

Pretty sure that's LLM speak but if you run the pre-built image you'll see the items. All of the items are listed in here as well:

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/blob/main/internal/api/handlers/v0/ui_index.html