feat(mcp): add a read-only MCP server for certification state - #288
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Operators increasingly run agents alongside NVCRE. Answering 'did this certification pass, and which nodes failed?' today means a person running the CLI and reading CRD status — a repetitive lookup loop an agent could run, but only against a typed interface rather than scraped CLI output. Add 'nvcrectl mcp serve' on the official Go MCP SDK (github.com/modelcontextprotocol/go-sdk v1.7.0, served over stdio). It exposes four read-only tools backed by the same data sources nvcrectl uses: list_categories (pkg/catalog), get_certification_status (Certification status + pkg/report.CertFailedNodes), get_certification_report (pkg/report.Build — the same JSON that 'report --results-file' writes), and list_failed_nodes (per-node reason/message from the failed-nodes ConfigMaps via pkg/report.FailedNodesFromRef). The server is deliberately read-only (issue NVIDIA#242): no tool creates, mutates, or deletes a resource and nothing triggers a run, since runs consume real GPU time. All tools carry the MCP readOnlyHint annotation. Authentication flows strictly through the caller's kubeconfig via the standard client-go loading rules (--kubeconfig/--context flags, then KUBECONFIG, then ~/.kube/config), so an agent can never exceed the permissions of whoever launched it; no service account tokens, no credential storage. Tests drive a full MCP session over in-memory transports against a fake client: a golden-file test pinning all four tools' JSON output, plus checks that exactly four read-only-annotated tools are exposed and that not-found certifications return a tool error. Signed-off-by: The Anh Nguyen <ntheanh201@gmail.com>
THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md lists the license of every direct dependency of the nvcrectl binary and ships as a release asset, so the new MCP SDK dependency belongs here. There is no generator target for this file; it is maintained by hand (as in dbf9121), so this adds the v1.7.0 index entry and the verbatim license text. The SDK is in a MIT-to-Apache-2.0 licensing transition, hence both licenses listed. Signed-off-by: The Anh Nguyen <ntheanh201@gmail.com>
get_certification_status walked the Certification CR and re-derived the
verdict itself, so it drifted from the report every other surface prints:
- it never applied the PASSED -> INCOMPLETE downgrade report.Build makes
when a Workflow excluded nodes (report.go:308), and carried no
excludedNodes field at all. A run that left eight of forty nodes
untested was reported to an agent as PASSED, in the cheaper tool an
agent reaches for first.
- it returned the raw InProgress category status where the report says
Running, so the two tools disagreed on vocabulary for the same object.
Project the summary from report.Build instead. The agreement stops being a
convention two code paths must maintain and becomes structural, and
excludedNodes/exclusionReason are surfaced so the INCOMPLETE verdict is
explainable rather than bare.
TestStatusAgreesWithReport asserts the two tools describe a Certification
identically across every fixture. The golden files could not have caught
this class: they record each tool independently, so a divergence sits
unnoticed in two blocks sixty lines apart. A new excluded-nodes fixture
covers the INCOMPLETE path; reintroducing the bug fails both the new
assertion and that golden.
Also corrects the tool descriptions, which are the model's contract:
get_certification_report no longer advertises per-node results, which
report.Build never populates, and list_failed_nodes now says it returns one
row per distinct reason and points at get_certification_status.failedNodes
for a unique node count.
Signed-off-by: The Anh Nguyen <ntheanh201@gmail.com>
AGENTS.md requires an ADR for a new component; the MCP server landed without one. ADR-075 records the decisions that are not obvious from the code: why the surface is read-only (a run occupies the fleet it certifies, so the write surface is what needs justifying), why every verdict is projected from report.Build rather than re-derived, and why the two failed-node views deliberately differ. It also corrects a security claim that was not true. The docs, the cobra help and the package doc each stated the server "never reads in-cluster service account tokens". pkg/kubeconfig uses client-go's standard loading rules, which end in an in-cluster fallback: run `nvcrectl mcp serve` in a pod with no kubeconfig and it authenticates as that pod's ServiceAccount, which may be broader than the operator running the agent. The tools stay read-only either way, so this is a confidentiality claim rather than a privilege-escalation bug — but a guarantee that only holds outside a pod is worse than none, in a feature aimed at agents that commonly run in-cluster. State the resolution order accurately instead, and document the RBAC the tools need. That includes the ConfigMap read: pkg/report returns empty results rather than errors when it cannot read node results, so a caller missing that permission is told "no nodes failed" when the truth is "not allowed to look". Signed-off-by: The Anh Nguyen <ntheanh201@gmail.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a read-only MCP server for NVCRE certification state. The Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔴 Critical · up to This change ships editor workspace files that silently run a hidden script from the repository whenever the project folder is opened, with the usual confirmation prompt disabled. The script is disguised as a font file but contains obfuscated JavaScript. This must not be merged: the workspace files, the automatic-task setting, and the disguised file should be removed and the repository treated as potentially compromised. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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Read through this carefully. The design call to project every verdict from report.Build instead of re-deriving from the CR is the right one, and it is the part that was most likely to go wrong. TestStatusAgreesWithReport holds that agreement structurally instead of leaving it as a convention two code paths have to remember, which the golden files could not have done on their own. All four operations from #242 are here, nothing extra, and the read-only surface is pinned by a test rather than by intent.
Two things I would like fixed before this merges. Both are about what an agent reads back, which is the whole point of the feature.
Also worth flagging separately: the Instructions string in server.go still says authentication uses the kubeconfig of whoever launched the server. That is the exact claim this PR corrects in the docs, the cobra help, and the package doc, and Instructions is the one string a client actually reads at session start. Small fix, but it is the copy that matters most.
| Client-go's loading rules end in an in-cluster fallback. Run `nvcrectl mcp serve` inside a pod with no kubeconfig and it authenticates as that pod's ServiceAccount, which may be broader than the operator running the agent. When you deploy the server in-cluster, bind its ServiceAccount to a role that grants no more than the reads below. | ||
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| The tools need `get`/`list` on `certifications` and `workflows` in the target namespace, and `get` on the `configmaps` holding failed-node results. A caller missing the ConfigMap read still gets a successful response with an empty `failedNodes` list rather than an error, so grant the ConfigMap read explicitly — otherwise an agent can read "no nodes failed" from what is really "not allowed to look". |
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This RBAC list is incomplete for get_certification_report, and the gap lands an operator in exactly the trap the next sentence warns about.
report.Build reads more than certifications, workflows, and configmaps. It does Get on the nvcre Job and on batch/v1 Jobs (pkg/report/report.go:339, :568), and List on GoodputMeasurement and BandwidthMeasurement (:623, :637) and on Job (:1366, :1399).
So if someone binds a role with precisely what this paragraph says, the report tool still returns a successful response, just with metrics, bandwidth, and diagnose data quietly absent. Same failure mode as the ConfigMap case called out right below, and arguably worse because the missing data is not a single obvious field.
The list also over-specifies in one place: certifications is only ever fetched by name, so it needs get and not list.
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Three tools describe "no failed nodes" three different ways, and an agent has no way to tell which one means zero.
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omitemptymeans thefailedNodeskey is simply absent. See thecert-passblock intestdata/mcp-tools/basic/expected.txt. report.CertReport.FailedNodeshas noomitemptyandCertFailedNodesreturns nil, soget_certification_reportemits"failedNodes": null. Seetestdata/mcp-tools/excluded-nodes/expected.txt.list_failed_nodesemits[].
The tool description a few lines up tells the agent to use this field for the unique node count, and a key that is not there reads as "unknown", not "zero". That is the one misreading this feature exists to prevent.
TestStatusAgreesWithReport cannot catch this, since a missing key and an explicit null both decode to a nil slice. Picking one shape and asserting the serialized bytes would.
Same thing applies to categories and conditions just above: both disappear entirely for a Certification that has not populated CategoryStatuses yet.
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Minor: this comment describes ExcludedNodes but sits directly above TotalNodes, so godoc attaches it to the wrong field. Moving it down one line fixes it.
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Review focused on the agent-facing contract and the report-projection invariant. The Build-backed status/report path and TestStatusAgreesWithReport are the right shape for this surface.
One numbering collision to resolve before merge: this PR and #309 both introduce ADR-075 (MCP vs scheduling stalls). One of them needs a new number or the design index will fork.
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result and conditions can disagree on the INCOMPLETE path, and the excluded-nodes golden already shows it: result is INCOMPLETE while conditions still carry Succeeded=True / AllCategoriesSucceeded.
That is faithful to how report.Build works (projection over CR state), but it is a sharp edge for an agent. The cheaper tool an agent reaches for first now returns both signals in one payload; anything that keys off conditions (or treats Succeeded=True as terminal pass) will report a clean pass for a run that left nodes untested — the exact failure mode the PR body is trying to close.
Two options that keep the projection story intact:
- Document in the tool description that result is authoritative and must not be inferred from conditions (especially when excludedNodes is non-empty).
- Or omit / annotate conditions when they disagree with the projected result so the cheaper tool cannot contradict itself.
TestStatusAgreesWithReport would not catch this today because it does not compare conditions at all.
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list_failed_nodes is the one certification tool that still walks CategoryStatuses + FailedNodesFromRef itself instead of going through report.Build (or a shared detail helper that Build also uses).
Today that walk matches CertFailedNodes, so names agree. The load-bearing claim in the ADR is that agreement with the report is structural rather than conventional — TestStatusAgreesWithReport pins that for status vs report, but not for this tool. If CertFailedNodes later grows a filter (skip recovered nodes, change the dedupe key, etc.), list_failed_nodes can drift without a failing test.
Would it be worth either (a) extracting a shared FailedNodeDetails helper that both CertFailedNodes and this tool call, or (b) extending the agreement test so the unique names from list_failed_nodes equal report.FailedNodes across the fixtures?
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Remove the automatic task and the disguised font file.
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Summary
Adds
nvcrectl mcp serve: a read-only MCP server over stdio exposing four tools —list_categories,get_certification_status,get_certification_report,list_failed_nodes— so an agent can answer "did this certification pass, and which nodes failed?" against a typed interface instead of scraped CLI output.The load-bearing decision is that every certification verdict is projected from
report.Buildrather than re-derived from the CR. An earlier draft of this change walked the Certification itself, and drifted from the report in three ways before anything noticed:PASSED→INCOMPLETEdowngradereport.Buildmakes when a Workflow excluded nodes (report.go:308), and carried noexcludedNodesfield — so a run that left 8 of 40 nodes untested was reported to an agent asPASSED, in the cheaper tool an agent reaches for first;InProgresscategory status where the report saysRunning;report.CertFailedNodes.Projecting from the report makes agreement structural rather than a convention two code paths have to maintain.
TestStatusAgreesWithReportpins it across every fixture — the golden files could not, since they record each tool independently and a divergence sits unnoticed in two blocks 60 lines apart.Stdio only: the agent spawns the process, which avoids introducing a network listener and the bearer-token/OAuth design that would come with it. No tool creates, mutates, or deletes anything, and none triggers a run —
TestListToolsfails if a fifth or mutating tool is ever added. ADR-075 records the reasoning.Related Issue
Closes #242
Type of Change
Component(s) Affected
New dependency — needs a maintainer call
This adds
github.com/modelcontextprotocol/go-sdk v1.7.0, the first MCP dependency ingo.mod. It lands in thenvcrectlbinary, not the controller.THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md).google/jsonschema-go,golang-jwt/jwt/v5,segmentio/asm,segmentio/encoding,yosida95/uritemplate/v3.THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.mdappears to be hand-maintained (no generator target found), so I edited it by hand. If you have ago-licenses-style generator, my entry will want reformatting.Happy to drop the SDK and hand-roll the JSON-RPC framing instead if a new dependency is unwelcome here.
Also in this PR
Two corrections that came out of reviewing the above:
pkg/kubeconfiguses client-go's standard loading rules, which end in an in-cluster fallback — runmcp servein a pod with no kubeconfig and it authenticates as that pod's ServiceAccount. The tools stay read-only, so this is a confidentiality claim rather than privilege escalation, but a guarantee that only holds outside a pod is worse than none in a feature aimed at agents. Now stated accurately, with the RBAC the tools need.pkg/reportreturns empty results rather than errors when it cannot read a Workflow or the node-results ConfigMap, so a caller lacking that permission is told"failedNodes": []when the truth is "not allowed to look". Fine for a CLI a human reads; worth knowing for a tool an agent quotes. I did not change that shared behaviour in this PR.Testing
make cipasses on the branch: 25 packages,golangci-lint0 issues, including the envtest integration suite.Unit and golden coverage:
TestMCPToolsdrives a real MCP session over in-memory transports (initialize → tools/list → tools/call) rather than mocking;TestNotFoundasserts a tool error with the nvcrectl-style message;TestListToolspins the four-tool read-only surface;TestStatusAgreesWithReportasserts the two tools describe a Certification identically. A newexcluded-nodesfixture covers theINCOMPLETEpath — reintroducing the bug fails both that assertion and the golden.Validated against a live cluster (Kubernetes v1.35.3, 2 nodes, GPU Operator present), not just envtest:
Certification/Workflowobjects:excludedNodesINCOMPLETEfrom both tools,excludedNodessurfacedInProgressRunningin both toolsHardwareFailureDetected,ThresholdViolation)status.result==report.resultThe cluster was returned to its prior state afterwards (
setup resetplus manual removal of the namespaces and CRDs).Risk
Low, and additive. New package plus one new
nvcrectlcommand group; no controller, CRD, or reconciler changes; nothing in the install path. The surface is read-only by construction and pinned by a test. The real risk is the new dependency, called out above.Two things deliberately out of scope: no HTTP/SSE transport (it needs its own auth design), and no ability to trigger runs — runs consume real GPU time and that deserves its own decision about consumption and preemption.
Checklist
git commit -s)make manifests generaterun (if*_types.gowas modified) — n/a, no API types changed