What

Adapts the MCP Catalog Entry in docs/discovery.md to AI Catalog PR #37 / ADR 0014, which renames the CatalogEntry.mediaType member to type and reframes its description as an open-text type identifier rather than a strict IANA media type.

Changes (docs-only, docs/discovery.md):

• Renames the mediaType member to type in the Catalog Entry table.
• Updates the member description to mirror ADR 0014: "An identifier specifying the type of the referenced artifact."
• Updates the type key in all four example catalog entries.
• Updates the client-validation prose (type set to … / "ignore entries with unrecognized types").

Rebase / conflict resolution

This branch was rebased onto the current main to resolve a merge conflict in docs/discovery.md. The conflict came from changes that landed on main after this branch was cut:

• docs(discovery): adopt AI Catalog urn:air: identifier convention (ADR 0015) #31 — urn:air: identifier adaptation (ADR 0015). Preserved.
• docs(discovery): drop displayName from MCP Catalog entries (#14) #39 / Make Catalog Entry displayName optional — conditional on AI Catalog making the same change upstream #14 — removal of the displayName field from MCP Catalog entries. Preserved — this PR does not reintroduce displayName; it only renames the field mediaType → type on top of main's current structure.

The resolved diff is exactly the mediaType → type rename (table row, four examples, validation prose) applied on top of main — nothing from either side's intent was dropped.

Scope decision — value deliberately kept as application/mcp-server-card+json

This PR renames the field only. The value stays application/mcp-server-card+json and is not changed to ADR 0014's known-type application/mcp-server+json. Rationale:

• ADR 0014 explicitly makes type an open-text format ("any string value is accepted"); application/mcp-server+json is a non-binding "known type," and ecosystem types are "governed externally" (i.e., by MCP). So keeping a more precise MCP-governed value is compatible with ADR 0014, not a contradiction.
• This repo deliberately chose application/mcp-server-card+json over application/mcp-server+json (issue MCP Catalog mediaType (application/mcp-server+json) diverges from AI Catalog's application/mcp-server-card+json #9 / PR docs: align Catalog mediaType with AI Catalog spec #18) to avoid colliding with the MCP Registry's server.json concept — a distinction the README documents in "Relationship to the MCP Registry."

Flag for maintainers: AI Catalog's ADR 0014 known-types list uses application/mcp-server+json for MCP. Whether this repo should also adopt that value (reversing issue #9 / PR #18 and re-introducing the server.json naming collision) is a separate, more consequential decision and is intentionally out of scope here. Happy to file a cross-repo issue if maintainers want to pursue it.

What is intentionally NOT changed

• The Server Card document's own HTTP media type (Accept / Content-Type negotiation, the reserved /server-card location prose). That is a genuine IANA media type, not the renamed catalog field, and ADR 0014 does not touch it.
• schema.ts / schema.json — the Server Card schema has no mediaType/type member; this convention lives only in the discovery doc.

Verification

• Rebased onto latest main; merge conflict in docs/discovery.md resolved, preserving both docs(discovery): adopt AI Catalog urn:air: identifier convention (ADR 0015) #31 (urn:air:) and docs(discovery): drop displayName from MCP Catalog entries (#14) #39 (displayName removal). PR now reports MERGEABLE.
• npm run check — schema.json up to date, tsc --noEmit clean
• npm run validate — all 7 examples pass
• npm run format:check — docs/discovery.md clean, including markdown table re-alignment
• Verified zero mediaType field tokens remain (git grep mediaType → no matches)
• Verified the Server Card HTTP media-type prose was left intact (no over-reach)
• CI green — build, Analyze (actions), and CodeQL all pass on the rebased head (run)
• Independent fresh-eyes subagent review: APPROVE (rename complete & correct; no displayName reintroduced; value unchanged; Server Card media-type prose intact; no stray mediaType; no conflict markers)

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