# KSail MCP Server

SDK for creating, managing, and operating Kubernetes clusters and workloads with ease.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `ghcr.io/devantler-tech/ksail:v7.181.3` on oci. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**45 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 12.

### Most discussed

### Move kubeadm Hetzner signing PKI out of provider user-data

> 🤖 Generated by the Agentic Engineer

## Evidence and impact
The supported kubeadm Hetzner bootstrap still places cluster-signing private material in provider-readable initialization data. The HA hotfix removes extra copies, but the initial control plane keeps this exposure so existing single-control-plane users remain affected.

## Hypothesis
Generating or transferring the private material through a channel outside provider user-data will preserve the current one-command workflow while removin

[Read the thread](https://github.com/devantler-tech/ksail/issues/6428) · 2026-08-01 · open · outside contributor · 4 comments

### feat(mirror): Phase-1 local delivery — replay captured traffic to the local process

> 🤖 Generated by the Daily AI Assistant

Part of #4521 (Phase 1 — mirror-only). Next increment after #5702/#5703 (capture spec) and the capture session + `workload mirror` command landing.

## Problem

`ksail workload mirror <deployment>` today resolves the target, injects the NET_RAW tap, streams the pcap over the exec channel, writes it to a file, and summarizes it. But mirror-only mode's headline promise — *the locally-running service receives the mirrored traffic* — is still unfulfilled: not

[Read the thread](https://github.com/devantler-tech/ksail/issues/5791) · 2026-07-04 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### [aw] Daily Workflow Maintenance failed

### Workflow Failure

**Workflow:** [Daily Workflow Maintenance](#)  
**Branch:** main  
**Run:** https://github.com/devantler-tech/ksail/actions/runs/26038123782

**🔒 Lock File Out of Sync**: The workflow could not start because its compiled lock file no longer matches the source markdown.

This means the workflow's `.md` file was edited but `gh aw compile` was not run afterwards to regenerate the corresponding `.lock.yml` file. The agent is prevented from running against a stale configuration

[Read the thread](https://github.com/devantler-tech/ksail/issues/4779) · 2026-05-18 · closed · outside contributor · 4 comments

### [bug]: kubelet-serving CSRs stay Pending on Hetzner clusters — no approver installed despite rotate-server-certificates=true

### Expected Behavior

On a Hetzner cluster with `rotate-server-certificates: true` in the Talos machine config (set by ksail since v7.4.0), `kubectl logs`, `kubectl exec`, and metrics-server should work immediately after bootstrap, because the kubelet-serving CSRs are approved.

### Actual Behavior

All kubelet-serving CSRs (`kubernetes.io/kubelet-serving` signer) stay `Pending` indefinitely. This blocks:

- `kubectl logs <pod>` → `tls: internal error`
- `kubectl exec <pod>` → `tls: internal er

[Read the thread](https://github.com/devantler-tech/ksail/issues/4322) · 2026-04-24 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### CI Doctor - CI Failure Investigation - Run #3145 — TODOs workflow fails: APP_PRIVATE_KEY secret missing

## Summary

The **TODOs** workflow (run [#3145](https://github.com/devantler-tech/ksail/actions/runs/24691190859)) failed because the `APP_PRIVATE_KEY` repository secret is missing or empty. The `create-issues-from-todos` action authenticates as a GitHub App and requires this private key to function.

## Failure Details

- **Run**: [24691190859](https://github.com/devantler-tech/ksail/actions/runs/24691190859)
- **Commit**: `4e1687b2536d005c596ae794115a76eea038958a`
- **Trigger**: `push` to `mai

[Read the thread](https://github.com/devantler-tech/ksail/issues/4225) · 2026-04-20 · closed · outside contributor · 7 comments

### Most recent

### Add privacy-preserving product telemetry and decision feedback loop

> 🤖 Generated by the Agentic Engineer

## Summary

Add privacy-preserving product telemetry across every KSail user surface: CLI, terminal UI (TUI), VS Code extension/plugin, MCP, desktop app, and web UI. The completed capability is enabled by default, has a prominent and reliable opt-out, sends a small versioned event set to a platform-hosted ingestion path, and gives the Agentic Engineer read-only aggregate evidence for future product decisions.

## Motivation

KSail decisions currently rely h

[Read the thread](https://github.com/devantler-tech/ksail/issues/6523) · 2026-08-08 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### fix(clusterapi): carry the ownership record's AWS credential mapping through to the EKS provisioner

> 🤖 Generated by the Agentic Engineer

## Evidence

Raised by Codex against #6385 and confirmed structurally at `ac74b807`:

- `bindFromOwnershipRecord` (`pkg/cli/clusterapi/distconfig.go`) reads the ownership record and keeps
  `ownerships[0].Region` **only**.
- The `EKSConfig` it returns (`pkg/svc/provisioner/cluster/factory.go`) has fields for `Name`,
  `Region`, `ConfigPath` and `KubeconfigPath` — and **nowhere to put** `AWSOptions`.
- `AWSOptions` / `OptionsAWS` / `Provider.AWS` appear **no

[Read the thread](https://github.com/devantler-tech/ksail/issues/6427) · 2026-08-01 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Rate Limit Gate reports rate-limit exhaustion when the GitHub API is merely unreachable

> 🤖 Generated by the Daily AI Engineer

## Evidence

During a GitHub API incident on 2026-07-20, `⏳ Rate Limit Gate` failed on PR #6285 and took `CI - Required Checks` down with it. The reported reason was rate-limit exhaustion. That was not the actual cause.

`.github/actions/rate-limit-gate` does:

```sh
remaining=$(gh api /rate_limit --jq '.resources.core.remaining')
if [ "$remaining" -ge "$MIN_REMAINING" ]; then
```

The job log shows what actually happened:

```
gh: No server is currently a

[Read the thread](https://github.com/devantler-tech/ksail/issues/6291) · 2026-07-20 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### fix(workload): expose Kubernetes config flags on workload wait

> 🤖 Generated by the Daily AI Engineer

## Reproduction and evidence

`pkg/client/kubectl/commands.go` creates `genericclioptions.NewConfigFlags(true)` in `CreateWaitCommand` and passes it to upstream `wait.NewCmdWait`, but never registers those flags on the Cobra command. This differs from the other kubectl-backed commands, whose shared `customizeCommand` calls `configFlags.AddFlags(cmd.Flags())`.

On current `main` (`deeaf6ddabd3dc895ee12f72d6871e969f53f6bf`):

```text
$ go run . workload wait

[Read the thread](https://github.com/devantler-tech/ksail/issues/6144) · 2026-07-15 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

### feat(project): surface the environment reconcile as an experimental env reconcile command

> 🤖 Generated by the Daily AI Engineer

**Part of #5441** (item 3b — declarative environments reconcile; increment 3, follows the generation step #6072/#6073).

**Problem.** The reconcile lane is complete as a library — `environment.DerivePlan` (#6054) reports Missing/Present/Orphaned overlays and `environment.GenerateMissingOverlays` (#6073) scaffolds the missing ones — but no CLI surface consumes it: an operator who declares a new `ksail.<env>.yaml` still has nothing to run that reconciles the

[Read the thread](https://github.com/devantler-tech/ksail/issues/6085) · 2026-07-13 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### [intercept] steer-agent stdout noise corrupts the tunnel protocol, and the client masks the corruption as a clean exit 0

> 🤖 Generated by the Daily AI Engineer

Part of #4521; found by #5971's live-cluster validation pass (Kind/Docker, 2026-07-11).

## Problem
`ksail workload intercept` exits 0 within ~2s on a real cluster without ever running the steering agent — a silent no-op. Two stacked defects:

1. **Protocol corruption:** the ksail binary links `github.com/derailed/k9s/cmd`, whose package `init()` does `fmt.Printf("Fail to init k9s logs location …")` — **to stdout** — whenever the k9s state dir is not creat

[Read the thread](https://github.com/devantler-tech/ksail/issues/6038) · 2026-07-11 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### workload mirror Ctrl-C skips the capture summary

## Description

`ksail workload mirror` tells users that Ctrl-C stops the capture and documents that a file capture is summarized on stop. The current root execution path does not install a signal-aware context for this command, so SIGINT terminates the process with status 130 before `finishCapture` and `summarizeMirrorFile` run.

This also prevents an end-to-end smoke test from treating the documented Ctrl-C path as a clean completion; the test must currently assert the flushed PCAP contents be

[Read the thread](https://github.com/devantler-tech/ksail/issues/6005) · 2026-07-10 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

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## Related servers

- [KSail](/mcp/ksail-2) — Also by ksail.devantler.tech

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