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+target/
+.git/
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+# Builds the rtblint MCP server. Glama's evaluator starts this container and
+# sends an MCP `initialize` request over stdio; the binary answers, which is
+# all that's needed to pass the introspection check and earn a quality score.
+
+FROM rust:1.83-slim AS build
+WORKDIR /src
+COPY . .
+RUN cargo build --release -p rtblint-mcp
+
+FROM debian:bookworm-slim
+COPY --from=build /src/target/release/rtblint-mcp /usr/local/bin/rtblint-mcp
+# The server speaks MCP over stdio (newline-delimited JSON-RPC).
+ENTRYPOINT ["rtblint-mcp"]