mcp-redfish copilot-instructions.md

mcp-redfish copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from nokia/mcp-redfish. It costs 1,874 tokens per session, scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

Repository instructions for an MCP server that gives AI agents a natural-language interface to Redfish-enabled infrastructure. Redfish is a standard for managing servers and other hardware over a network.

In plain words
What is it for?
Adding MCP tools, working with Redfish connections and discovery, configuring the server, and following its layered Python architecture.
Why use it?
They explain the server's layout, how tools are registered, and how configuration is chosen, so new changes fit the existing design.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nokia/mcp-redfish

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Nothing flagged

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How it starts

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Copilot Instructions for MCP Redfish Server

Project Architecture

This is a FastMCP-based Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides a natural language interface to Redfish-enabled infrastructure. The architecture follows a layered design:

  • src/main.py: Entry point with RedfishMCPServer class handling SSDP discovery and server startup
  • src/common/server.py: FastMCP instance initialization (mcp = FastMCP("Redfish MCP Server", auth=...))
  • src/common/auth.py: Maps MCP_AUTH_* to FastMCP token verifiers
  • src/common/validation.py: Fail-closed HTTP auth, bind, and TLS rules
  • src/tools/: MCP tool implementations using @mcp.tool() decorators (auto-registered via imports)
  • src/common/client.py: Redfish client wrapper with retry logic using tenacity library
  • src/common/discovery.py: SSDP discovery for automatic Redfish endpoint detection

Tool Registration Pattern: Tools are auto-registered by importing modules in src/tools/__init__.py. Each tool uses @mcp.tool() decorator from the global mcp instance.

Key Development Patterns

MCP Tool Development

from ..common.server import mcp

@mcp.tool()
async def tool_name(param: str) -> dict:
    """Tool description for AI agents."""
    # Implementation

Configuration Hierarchy

  1. Environment variables (.env file recommended)
  2. Per-host overrides in REDFISH_HOSTS JSON array
  3. Global defaults from src/common/config.py

Critical: Set test environment variables BEFORE importing src modules in tests (see test/conftest.py).

Redfish Client Usage

from ..common.client import RedfishClient
from .. import common

# Get server config, create client, handle cleanup
server_cfg = common.hosts.get_hosts()[0]
client = RedfishClient(server_cfg, common.config)
try:
    response = client.get("/redfish/v1/Systems")
finally:
    client.logout()  # Always cleanup

Development Workflow

Supported runtimes: Python 3.14 recommended; Python 3.13 deprecated (policy).

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Changes

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mcp-redfish copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository nokia/mcp-redfish (19 stars, last pushed today), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 1,874 tokens to every session, about $0.0094 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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