# dot-ai MCP Server

AI-powered development platform for Kubernetes deployments and intelligent automation

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@vfarcic/dot-ai` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**10 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 7.

### Most discussed

### feat(mcp-client): support authentication headers for outbound MCP server connections

### Problem

dot-ai's MCP client cannot authenticate to MCP servers that require authorization. The `mcpServers` Helm configuration supports `endpoint` and `attachTo`, but `connectAndDiscover()` creates `StreamableHTTPClientTransport` without passing `authProvider` or `requestInit`, so all outbound MCP connections are unauthenticated.

PR #410 explicitly scoped this out as "in-cluster trust model." This works when all MCP servers run in the same cluster without auth, but breaks for MCP servers b

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vfarcic/dot-ai/issues/414) · 2026-03-26 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### RBAC enforcement gaps when deploying to multi-tenant clusters

## Problem

When deploying to Kubernetes clusters with RBAC enabled, the AI agent currently lacks fine-grained authorization checks before executing tool operations. This creates two gaps:

1. **No pre-flight validation**: The agent doesn't verify user/service account permissions against cluster RBAC policies before recommending or executing deployments. It discovers resources the user cannot actually access and suggests modifications anyway.

2. **No tool-level gating**: Operations like `kubect

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vfarcic/dot-ai/issues/397) · 2026-03-07 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### feat: serve folder-based skills (with scripts/manifests) from git repositories

## Problem

The server can serve **user-defined prompts** from a git repository (`DOT_AI_USER_PROMPTS_REPO`), but only as **flat `.md` files**. Meanwhile, real-world skills are **folder-based** — a directory containing `SKILL.md` plus supporting files like shell scripts, manifests, templates, etc.

Today, folder-based skills (like those in [dot-ai-skills](https://github.com/vfarcic/dot-ai-skills)) can only be distributed via **git submodules**, which is a completely separate mechanism from the s

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vfarcic/dot-ai/issues/379) · 2026-02-17 · closed · external user · 9 comments

### feat: expose user-defined prompts force-refresh mechanism

## Problem

User-defined prompts loaded from git repositories (via `DOT_AI_USER_PROMPTS_REPO`) are cached with a TTL (`DOT_AI_USER_PROMPTS_CACHE_TTL`). When prompts are updated in the git repo, users must either:

1. Wait for the cache TTL to expire, or
2. Restart the pod/process

There is **no way for a user to trigger an on-demand refresh** of the prompts cache.

## Context

The internal plumbing for force-refresh **already exists** but is never exposed to users:

- `ensureRepository()` in `sr

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vfarcic/dot-ai/issues/378) · 2026-02-17 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### Excessive logging when embedding API circuit breaker is open

## Description

When the embedding API circuit breaker is open, the MCP server logs a warning for **every single resource** it tries to sync, instead of logging once and batching/suppressing subsequent warnings.

With 353+ watched resource types and many resources per type, this creates massive log spam that can:
- Fill up log storage (we saw 130MB+ in minutes)
- Overwhelm log aggregation systems (Loki rate limiting)
- Make it hard to find other important logs

## Observed Behavior

```
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[Read the thread](https://github.com/vfarcic/dot-ai/issues/346) · 2026-01-26 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Most recent

### dot-ai 1.6.0 crashes when ingress.tls.enabled=false: Issuer URL must be HTTPS

## Problem

Upgrading from dot-ai 1.5.0 (chart 0.58.0) to 1.6.0 (chart 0.59.0) causes a crash loop when `ingress.tls.enabled` is `false`:

```
Failed to start DevOps AI Toolkit MCP server: Error: Issuer URL must be HTTPS
```

## Root Cause

Chart 0.59.0 adds Dex as a new sub-chart, **enabled by default**. The `DEX_ISSUER_URL` env var is derived in `_helpers.tpl` (`dot-ai.dexExternalUrl`):

```go
{{- if or .Values.ingress.tls.enabled .Values.gateway.listeners.https.hostname -}}
https://{{ $host }

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vfarcic/dot-ai/issues/396) · 2026-03-05 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### [Feature]: Visual Studio Code + Github Copilot

### Problem Statement

Hi @vfarcic,

I've been playing around with dot-ai MCP server in Visual Sudio Code and Github Copilot, and everything works fine,

Tools are properly shown in 'Configure Tools':

<img width="613" height="480" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/afa0f2ed-b226-4a5d-bef2-9d39d7948aae" />

And prompts are listed properly in the chat window:

<img width="766" height="1019" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6eccb7ed-04c6-4a10-979

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vfarcic/dot-ai/issues/185) · 2025-10-26 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 10 reports Pod holds for dot-ai](/mcp/dot-ai/issues).

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