# kubently MCP Server

Troubleshoot Kubernetes agentically: natural-language cluster diagnosis via ask_kubently

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## Connect

Published as `@kubently/cli` 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

### A2A message/stream returns HTTP 200 with an empty body (streaming advertised but non-functional)

## Summary

`message/stream` on the A2A endpoint returns **HTTP 200 with a zero-byte body** — no SSE events are emitted at all. `message/send` works correctly, so the agent itself is fine; only the streaming path is broken.

The agent card advertises `AgentCapabilities(streaming=True)`, so clients that honor the card will pick the streaming method and receive nothing.

## Reproduction

Streaming — 200, but **0 bytes**:

```bash
curl -s -N --max-time 60 -X POST https://<host>/a2a/ \
  -H "X-API-K

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kubently/kubently/issues/65) · 2026-08-16 · closed · 3 comments

### agent.run() yields once at the end, so nothing downstream can stream token-by-token

Found while building streaming for Kubently Cloud's Ask surface (kubently-cloud#40, PR #74). Filing here because the fix is in this repo and the limitation is invisible from the outside — the A2A endpoint advertises `message/stream` and it works, so a client reasonably expects incremental output and does not get it.

## What happens today

`agent.run()` in `kubently/modules/a2a/protocol_bindings/a2a_server/agent.py` awaits `run_agent.ainvoke(...)` and **yields exactly once, at the end**.

So a `

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kubently/kubently/issues/115) · 2026-08-20 · closed · 0 comments

### A2A import failures degrade silently: an incompatible SDK starts the API with the whole protocol surface missing

Found while validating the Dependabot queue (#82 / #35 / #76).

`kubently/modules/a2a/__init__.py` catches SDK import failures into `A2A_AVAILABLE = False`. The consequence is that an incompatible `a2a-sdk` **starts the API successfully with the entire A2A protocol surface missing**, announced by a single INFO log line.

## Why this matters beyond the version bump

This is a latent trap independent of any dependency change, and it has already cost us once: #87 found the A2A agent card had gone s

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kubently/kubently/issues/97) · 2026-08-19 · closed · 0 comments

### Cloud telemetry tools are registered when no cloud identity is configured, unlike every other optional toolset

Found by an end-to-end functional pass against a kind deployment built from HEAD, with `executor.cloud` at its default (off) and no `prometheus.url`.

## What happened

A probe asked a metrics question that no kubectl call can answer:

> "In cluster kind, what has the pod restart rate been over the last 6 hours? Use metrics, not a point-in-time pod listing."

With Prometheus unconfigured, the correct outcome is for the agent to say it has no metrics source. Instead it called **`query_cloud_metri

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kubently/kubently/issues/90) · 2026-08-18 · closed · 0 comments

### Cluster registry is writable by session creation: /debug/session accepts any cluster id and /debug/clusters reports it to the agent

Found by an end-to-end functional pass against a kind deployment built from HEAD. Noticed because `/debug/clusters` listed a cluster called `namespace` that nobody had registered.

## The inconsistency

Three endpoints disagree about what counts as a registered cluster:

```bash
# 1. Session creation accepts anything
curl -X POST $API/debug/session -H "X-API-Key: $KEY" \
  -d '{"cluster_id":"totally-fake-cluster-xyz"}'
# → 200 {"session_id":"1f2b0faa-...","cluster_id":"totally-fake-cluster-xyz",

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kubently/kubently/issues/89) · 2026-08-18 · closed · 0 comments

### Most recent

### kubently audit: surface and export the command audit trail

## Motivation
Every command the agent runs is already logged to the Redis `auth:audit` log, but nothing surfaces it. Operators adopting an AI tool that executes kubectl need to answer "what exactly did it run, where, and when" — today that requires reading Redis by hand.

## Scope
- `kubently audit` CLI subcommand: list recent entries (filter by cluster, time range, session), plus `--output json|csv` export
- API endpoint to read the audit log (API-key auth, read-only)
- Document retention behav

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kubently/kubently/issues/55) · 2026-08-14 · closed · 0 comments

### Fleet fan-out: query all clusters in parallel (execute_kubectl_multi)

## Motivation
Fleet-wide questions ("what's failing across all my clusters?") currently force the agent into sequential one-cluster-at-a-time calls. Parallel fan-out is the core multi-cluster capability described in SYSTEM_DESIGN.md and has never been implemented.

## Scope
- New agent tool `execute_kubectl_multi(cluster_ids, command, namespace)` in `kubently/modules/a2a/protocol_bindings/a2a_server/agent.py`
- `["all"]` resolves to registered clusters via `/debug/clusters`; fan-out capped at 10

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kubently/kubently/issues/53) · 2026-08-14 · closed · 0 comments

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