What is talos-mcp-server CLAUDE.md?

Instructions for an AI tool that manages Talos Linux clusters through their native management interface. Talos Linux is an operating system built for running Kubernetes clusters.

Building and checking the Talos management server, following its development workflow, and safely operating Talos cluster nodes.

It adds safety checks around actions such as rebooting, upgrading, rolling back, resetting nodes, and changing service settings, reducing the chance of an accidental cluster outage or data loss.

How Nosmoht/talos-mcp-server configures Claude Code

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Sonnet 5	$0.00331	$0.00331
Haiku 4.5	$0.00166	$0.00166

Measured 8d ago against content hash ec17c84aa17d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

talos-mcp-server CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

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None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 101 lines

How it starts

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talos-mcp

MCP server exposing Talos Linux cluster management to AI agents via the native gRPC API.

Build

make build   # binary with version info
make check   # full CI parity: fmt + vet + lint + test

Safety

Mutating tools require explicit guards — missing any of these will error or cause irreversible cluster damage:

talos_reboot, talos_upgrade, talos_rollback, talos_reset all require confirm=true and explicit nodes. talos_service_action requires confirm=true (nodes optional — falls back to talosconfig defaults).
talos_service_action: restarting etcd is not supported by the Talos API — use talos_reboot or the investigate-etcd prompt instead.
talos_reboot hits all listed nodes simultaneously — specify one at a time to avoid a full outage. Use wait=true to block until complete (default timeout 5m).
talos_upgrade preserve defaults to true (keep EPHEMERAL partition) — differs from talosctl default of false.
talos_reset graceful defaults to true (drain workloads, leave etcd). Set false only on unresponsive nodes. system_labels_to_wipe empty = full disk wipe.
talos_patch_config defaults dry_run=true; pass dry_run=false + confirm=true to apply.
talos_apply_config takes config_file (absolute local path to YAML/JSON, max 1 MiB — secrets never enter context). Defaults dry_run=true, requires exactly one node. Replaces entire machine config — prefer talos_patch_config for targeted changes.
talos_read_file / talos_list_files: the TALOS_MCP_ALLOWED_PATHS prefix allowlist is defense-in-depth only. The check runs on the MCP server host and does not resolve symlinks on the remote node — a symlink under an allowed prefix pointing elsewhere is not detected (symlinks are resolved on the node, outside the check's view). Do not rely on it as the sole access control.

Quorum/member-count invariants for preflight helpers: see .claude/rules/quorum-member-counting.md (auto-loaded when editing internal/tools/etcd_preflight.go or any *_preflight.go).

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 lines

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