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K8scortex MCP Server

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K8scortex MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 306 installs a week from npm. Last commit 27 Oct 2026.

Kubernetes MCP server: 75 tools for GKE, AKS, EKS, RBAC, audit logging, GitOps, multi-cluster.

Installs per day peak 13 · avg 5 · +2% w/w
a month agotoday
306
Installs / week
npm · k8scortex-mcp
1
Stars
0 open issues
27 Oct 2026
Last commit
1 release in 90 days
MIT
License
TypeScript

What the code does

We read the source, 5 d ago · rules 995398eba69f

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

Reaches cloud metadata service src/clusters/azure-keyvault.ts:29
  const tokenEndpoint = process.env.IDENTITY_ENDPOINT || "http://169.254.169.254/metadata/identity/oauth2/token";

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch K8scortex MCP and you get told the day something new turns up.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add k8scortex-mcp -- npx -y k8scortex-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "k8scortex-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "k8scortex-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.k8scortex-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "k8scortex-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "k8scortex-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "k8scortex-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "k8scortex-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "k8scortex-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: KUBECONFIG (Path to your kubeconfig file. Each context becomes a cluster. Defaults to ~/.kube/config), CLUSTERS_CONFIG (Optional path to a cluster registry JSON file mixing kubeconfig, EKS, GKE and Key Vault clusters), K8SCORTEX_STDIO_ROLES (Roles for the local session, e.g. 'developer' for read-only tools. Defaults to platform-engineer).

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K8scortex MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for K8scortex MCP?
K8scortex MCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package k8scortex-mcp was installed 306 times last week.
How do I connect K8scortex MCP?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls k8scortex-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use K8scortex MCP?
The npm package k8scortex-mcp was installed 306 times in the last week. Week over week that is +2%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is K8scortex MCP open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 1 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.