maintainer-onboarding.md

Registry Maintainer Onboarding

This guide covers onboarding new maintainers to the MCP Registry project.

Checklist

When onboarding a new maintainer, complete the following steps:

1. Access Repository (GitHub, Google Workspace)

• Open a PR on the modelcontextprotocol/access repository

2. MAINTAINERS.md

• Add them to the MAINTAINERS.md file in modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol

3. README.md

• Add them to the "Current key maintainers" section in README.md

4. Discord

• Invite them to the MCP Discord server
• Ask a Community Moderator or Core Maintainer to add them to the appropriate roles