Profiles are essential for managing server instances. Each profile contains all artifacts required to run a server, such as configuration files, certificates, tokens, and helper scripts. Profiles are stored under generated folder and tracked in generated/servers.registry.tsv.
Note: Use mcpgen up only for development and iterative testing. For any production or pre‑production environment, create a hardened export using:
./mcpgen export <profile_name> --bundle prod

Deploy the exported bundle, not the mutable generated/<name> development profile directory. For more information, see Export profiles for production.