# Red Hat Lightspeed MCP MCP Server

Model Context Protocol server for Red Hat Lightspeed - advisor, image builder, inventory, and more

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

## Status

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## Connect

Published as `ghcr.io/redhatinsights/red-hat-lightspeed-mcp` on oci. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**7 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 5.

### Most discussed

### Review and align OAuth/authentication architecture for RH-hosted deployment

## Background

The Insights MCP currently supports multiple authentication modes (Bearer token, service account
credentials, OAuth via `OIDCProxy`). As the team is evaluating hosting this MCP as a Red Hat
service (rather than customer-deployed stdio), there are open questions about whether the current
auth architecture is the right fit — and whether a reusable pattern across RH MCP servers is
achievable.

A proof-of-concept integrating a web OAuth flow was explored in
[this branch](https://githu

[Read the thread](https://github.com/RedHatInsights/insights-mcp/issues/398) · 2026-07-13 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Provide Automation Analytics in Insights MCP

There is a demand from users of Ansible Automation Platform to be able to provide Automation Analytics contents in the Insights MCP. This would be a perfect fit, due to the read-only nature of Automation Analytics, so you can query:

Reports
Savings Planner
Automation Calculator
Organization Statistics
Job Explorer

With that you can ask questions regarding reports, such as: "how many hours were saved thanks to automation in the previous month?"

[Read the thread](https://github.com/RedHatInsights/insights-mcp/issues/347) · 2026-04-23 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Image Builder server instructions exceed Claude Code's 2KB limit (currently 3.2KB)

From the [official Claude Code MCP documentation](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/mcp#for-mcp-server-authors):          
                                                                  
  > Claude Code truncates tool descriptions and server instructions at 2KB each. Keep them concise to avoid truncation, and put critical details near the start.   

  The instructions defined in [`server.py#L45`](https://github.com/RedHatInsights/insights-mcp/blob/main/src/image_builder_mcp/serve

[Read the thread](https://github.com/RedHatInsights/insights-mcp/issues/340) · 2026-04-03 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Llamastack integration

I am trying to integrate insights mcp server with Llama stack and seeing issue.

started insights in HTTP mode:
InsightsMCPServer - Running HTTP transport on host: 127.0.0.1, port: 8000

started Llama Stack with:
    mcp_endpoint:
      uri: http://localhost:8000/mcp

I see following error on llama stack:
WARNING  2026-04-02 17:39:14,518 llama_stack.providers.utils.tools.mcp:98 tools: network error connecting to MCP server
         at http://localhost:8000/mcp via STREAMABLE_HTTP, falling back t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/RedHatInsights/insights-mcp/issues/338) · 2026-04-02 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Extend remediations API support

Is there any plan to add support to list and execute remediation plans?

E.g., the following APIs from Red Hat Lightspeed API cheat sheet:
```
Get an Ansible remediation playbook:
GET /remediations/v1/remediations/<remediation_id>/playbook
Execute a remediation:
POST /remediations/v1/remediations/<remediation_id>/playbook_runs
```

[Read the thread](https://github.com/RedHatInsights/insights-mcp/issues/290) · 2026-01-30 · open · outside contributor · 4 comments

[See all 7 reports Pod holds for Red Hat Lightspeed MCP](/mcp/red-hat-lightspeed-mcp/issues).

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