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Updated the MCP Registry validation steps by including name, description and version, as done in VS Code. #16450

Updated the MCP Registry validation steps by including name, description and version, as done in VS Code.

Updated the MCP Registry validation steps by including name, description and version, as done in VS Code. #16450

Workflow file for this run

name: Local development
# **What it does**: Basic smoke test to ensure local dev server starts and serves content
# **Why we have it**: Catch catastrophic "npm start is completely broken" scenarios
# **Who does it impact**: Engineers, Contributors.
on:
merge_group:
pull_request:
permissions:
contents: read
jobs:
local-dev:
if: github.repository == 'github/docs-internal' || github.repository == 'github/docs'
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Check out repo
uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v6.0.1
- uses: ./.github/actions/node-npm-setup
- uses: ./.github/actions/get-docs-early-access
if: ${{ github.repository == 'github/docs-internal' }}
with:
token: ${{ secrets.DOCS_BOT_PAT_BASE }}
- name: Disable Next.js telemetry
run: npx next telemetry disable
- name: Start server and basic smoke test
run: |
# Start server in background
npm start > /tmp/stdout.log 2> /tmp/stderr.log &
SERVER_PID=$!
# Wait for server to be ready and test homepage
if curl --fail --retry-connrefused --retry 10 --retry-delay 2 http://localhost:4000/; then
echo "✅ Local dev server started successfully and serves homepage"
kill $SERVER_PID 2>/dev/null || true
else
echo "❌ Local dev server failed to start or serve content"
echo "____STDOUT____"
cat /tmp/stdout.log
echo "____STDERR____"
cat /tmp/stderr.log
kill $SERVER_PID 2>/dev/null || true
exit 1
fi