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Talos Linux MCP Server MCP Server

MCP server for Talos Linux — resources, services, logs, health, config, lifecycle via gRPC.

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Published as talos-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

57 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

feat(upgrade-k8s): add talos_upgrade_k8s tool

Rewritten 2026-06-03 per maintainer decision (proceed via go-kubernetes). This body supersedes the original gRPC-based proposal and the 2026-04-16 plan comment. See the pinned clarification comment for the rationale and the verified findings.

Severity

P2 — moderate

Category

reliability

Description

No talos_upgrade_k8s tool exists. Kubernetes component upgrades require an operator to break out of the MCP-first workflow and run talosctl upgrade-k8s from a shell, reint

Read the thread · 2026-04-07 · open · 4 comments

chore(http): migrate off deprecated StreamableHTTPOptions.CrossOriginProtection before go-sdk v1.8.0

type: chore status: triage risk: low

Intent

Replace the deprecated StreamableHTTPOptions.CrossOriginProtection field assignment with the protection.Handler(mcpHandler) wrapper form so the HTTP transport keeps compiling after go-sdk v1.8.0 removes the field.

Context

PR #177 (commit 5dc4794) restored cross-origin protection by setting StreamableHTTPOptions.CrossOriginProtection: &http.CrossOriginProtection{} in cmd/talos-mcp/main.go:315. The staff review of #177 flagged t

Read the thread · 2026-05-11 · closed · 2 comments

chore(governance): document and enforce GitHub branch protection rules

Severity

P2 — moderate

Category

security, governance

Description

There is no evidence of GitHub branch protection rules in the repository. Without protection, anyone with write access can push directly to main, bypassing CI, and automatically trigger a release via auto-tag.yml → release.yml.

Evidence

No branch protection configuration found in the repository. auto-tag.yml triggers on every push to main and creates a semver tag. The created tag triggers `release.y

Read the thread · 2026-04-08 · closed · 2 comments

extractMachineConfigBody fragile with 0% test coverage

Description

extractMachineConfigBody in internal/tools/lifecycle.go contains two distinct code paths (legacy protobuf format and YAML annotation format) with no unit tests. The function relies on assumptions about Talos' internal MachineConfig serialization format. A format change in a future Talos version would break this silently.

Evidence

internal/tools/lifecycle.go:360–389 — two branches:

  1. Legacy: direct protobuf field access
  2. Current: YAML-annotated struct traversal

Ne

Read the thread · 2026-04-07 · closed · 2 comments

Partial multi-node responses silently omit unreachable nodes

Description

When a multi-node tool call includes an unreachable node, that node's response is silently absent from the result. No error indicator, no partial flag, and no per-node status is returned. The caller receives a response that appears complete but is missing data.

Evidence

internal/talos/client.go:125–133 — node strings are forwarded to talosclient.WithNodes without any mechanism to detect or surface per-node failures. The Talos gRPC response format embeds per-message error

Read the thread · 2026-04-07 · closed · 2 comments

Most recent

feat(resources): support MCP resource subscriptions backed by COSI watch

Severity

P2 — enables reactive agents; high implementation cost.

Category

Protocol feature adoption (MCP resources/subscribe + notifications/resources/updated).

Description

MCP clients can subscribe to resource URIs to receive push updates when the underlying data changes. talos-mcp-server exposes two static resources and two templates (internal/resources/resources.go:25–51) but never registers a subscription handler. Talos gRPC provides native Watch semantics on the COS

Read the thread · 2026-04-15 · closed · 0 comments

feat(server): implement argument completion for tool inputs

Severity

P2 — UX improvement, no correctness impact.

Category

Protocol feature adoption (MCP completion/complete).

Description

talos-mcp-server declares tools with free-form string arguments (nodes, namespace, service_name, type/resource alias, config paths) but does not register a completion handler. MCP clients that implement completion/complete (Claude Desktop, Cursor) therefore cannot offer autosuggest for any argument. We already have authoritative sources for t

Read the thread · 2026-04-15 · closed · 0 comments

feat(tools): emit MCP progress notifications for long-running mutating tools

Severity

P1 — affects operator UX on every destructive operation.

Category

Protocol feature adoption (MCP progress notifications).

Description

Mutating tools that wait on the Talos cluster (talos_reboot wait=true, talos_upgrade, talos_reset, talos_apply_config with wait) block silently for up to 5 minutes (default reboot timeout per CLAUDE.md § Safety) before returning. MCP supports progress notifications via notifications/progress keyed by a caller-provided `progres

Read the thread · 2026-04-15 · closed · 0 comments

feat(tools): declare output schemas and return structured content for read-only tools

Severity

P1 — high value, low risk.

Category

Protocol feature adoption (MCP tool output schema + structured content).

Description

All 17 read-only tools in cmd/talos-mcp/main.go:182–352 currently return unstructured text (textResult(...)) without declaring an OutputSchema. Since go-sdk v1.5.0 (now in use on main), declaring an output schema and returning StructuredContent lets MCP clients consume the payload as typed JSON instead of re-parsing prose. The MCP spec forma

Read the thread · 2026-04-15 · closed · 0 comments

docs(tools): document symlink limitation of TALOS_MCP_ALLOWED_PATHS path allowlist

Description

talos_list_files and talos_read_file follow symlinks on the node filesystem without verifying the resolved path against the TALOS_MCP_ALLOWED_PATHS allowlist. An operator who restricts access to /etc can be bypassed if a symlink outside /etc points into it (or vice versa: a symlink inside /etc resolves to a path outside the allowlist).

The path allowlist check (checkPathAllowed) is applied to the request path supplied by the caller, not to the symlink-resolved

Read the thread · 2026-04-09 · closed · 1 comment

fix(tools): canonicalize incoming path in checkPathAllowed to prevent traversal bypass

Description

checkPathAllowed in internal/tools/files.go uses strings.HasPrefix(path, allowed) to validate the incoming request path against the allowlist. The incoming path (args.Path / listPath) is never canonicalized with filepath.Clean before the prefix check.

Evidence

checkPathAllowed (internal/tools/files.go):

func checkPathAllowed(path string, allowed []string) error {
    for _, prefix := range allowed {
        if strings.HasPrefix(path, prefix) {
           

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Nosmoht/talos-mcp-server/issues/135) · 2026-04-09 · closed · 1 comment

### feat(tools): support config_file path in talos_apply_config to reduce token usage

## Problem or use case

`talos_apply_config` accepts the full machine config as an inline YAML/JSON string in the `config` parameter. A typical Talos machine config is 5,000–15,000+ tokens. When the AI agent passes this inline:

1. **The config consumes tokens twice** — once in the tool call arguments (agent output), once echoed back in the tool result context. For a 10K-token config this adds ~20K tokens per invocation.
2. **Dry-run + apply doubles the cost** — the recommended workflow calls th

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Nosmoht/talos-mcp-server/issues/133) · 2026-04-09 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 20 reports Pod holds for Talos Linux MCP Server](/mcp/talos-linux-mcp-server/issues) — of 57 qualified upstream.

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