Reported issues for Crossplane
Pod holds 5 of 5 GitHub reports that passed its relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. Treat them as evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects.
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feat(provisioning): opt-in write capabilities, creating through the control plane's own platform APIs
Problem
The server can explain a control plane in detail and then has to stop. An operator asks their assistant "why is orders-db not ready?", gets a good answer, and then has to leave the conversation to do anything about it. The same is true of the first thing anyone wants to demo: "create me a Postgres database" is the question a platform API exists to answer, and today we cannot answer it.
The reason we have not done it is good — on a Crossplane control plane a mistaken write is a…
Read the thread · 2026-09-16 · closed · 0 comments
Expose XRD schemas through the MCP resources primitive
Problem
crossplane_xrd_schema returns an XRD API contract, but only as a tool call. A client cannot attach the schema as context up front, so every question about a platform API costs a round trip — and this becomes a real constraint once a model is drafting claims under v0.8.
What to build
Expose each XRD schema as an MCP resource alongside the existing tool, so clients can subscribe to and attach them directly.
Acceptance
- Resource URIs are stable and derived from…
Read the thread · 2026-09-15 · closed · 0 comments
Explain why a package will not install
Problem
A Configuration or Provider that will not install reports a terse condition. The actual reason — a version constraint conflict, a missing dependency, or registry authentication — is buried.
What to build
Extend package inspection to explain install failures in terms of the dependency graph and the constraint that could not be satisfied.
Acceptance
- Names the conflicting constraint and the packages on each side of it
- Distinguishes registry auth failure from…
Read the thread · 2026-09-15 · open · 0 comments
Explain a stuck deletion as one answer
Problem
crossplane_deleting_resources and crossplane_impact each answer part of "why will this not delete?". The user has to assemble finalizers, Usage blocks and orphaned external resources themselves.
What to build
One answer covering the finalizers present, which Usage or ClusterUsage blocks the delete, what is orphaned versus deleted given each deletionPolicy, and what would unblock it.
Acceptance
- Names the specific blocking object, not just "a Usage exists" -…
Read the thread · 2026-09-15 · open · 0 comments
Report ProviderConfig and credential resolution for a managed resource
Problem
Credential failure is the most common cause of Synced=False, and it is currently invisible to the server. A model asked "why is this Bucket not syncing?" has no way to see which ProviderConfig is in play or whether its secret resolves, so it guesses.
What to build
For a managed resource, report the ProviderConfig it references, the credential source (Secret, InjectedIdentity, IRSA, workload identity), and whether that source currently resolves.
Acceptance
- Never…
Read the thread · 2026-09-15 · open · 0 comments
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