What is podman-mcp AGENTS.md?

An AGENTS.md instruction file for a Podman MCP project, documenting its ports, technology stack, startup commands, tests, build commands, and tool structure.

Use it when developing or testing the Podman MCP project, especially when adding tools or running its frontend, backend, tests, or native build.

It gives coding agents a quick reference for working in the project without having to rediscover its setup and conventions.

How sandraschi/podman-mcp configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sandraschi/podman-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sandraschi/podman-mcp

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 771 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 771 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00771	$0.00771
Opus 5.5	$0.00308	$0.00308
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00154	$0.00154
Haiku 4.5	$0.00077	$0.00077

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 4dcee8a54bec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

podman-mcp AGENTS.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 2mo 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.

Nothing flagged

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.

AGENTS.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

podman-mcp — AGENTS.md

Quick Reference


Ports	Backend 11113 · Frontend 11112 · MCP /mcp
Stack	FastMCP 3.5 · Python 3.12+ · uv · React 19 · Vite · Tailwind
Start	`.\web_sota\start.ps1`
Tests	`uv run pytest`
Lint	`npx tsc --noEmit` (web_sota)
Build NSIS	`just build-native`
CUA smoke	`just cua-nsis-test`

Tool Pattern

All tools follow the portmanteau pattern — one function per domain with operation: Literal[...] discriminator. Tools auto-register via @mcp.tool() decorator on import.

Tool	Module	Operations
`manage_containers`	`tools/containers.py`	list, inspect, start, stop, restart, delete, create, logs, stats, exec, files, resources
`manage_pods`	`tools/pods.py`	list, inspect, create, start, stop, delete
`manage_images`	`tools/images.py`	list, inspect, pull, delete, build, search
`manage_system`	`tools/system.py`	status, info, machine_list/init/start/stop, prune, generate_systemd, volume_, network_
`manage_compose`	`tools/compose.py`	up, down, ps, logs, build, config, debug
`manage_backup`	`tools/backup.py`	save_image, load_image, export_container, import_container, save/load_volume, save_compose, list_backups
`manage_migrate`	`tools/migrate.py`	docker_compose_to_podman, podman_compose_to_docker, scan_docker_artifacts, migrate_image, compatibility_check, dockerfile_to_containerfile, export_for_docker
`manage_agentic`	`tools/agentic.py`	deploy_compose, cleanup, diagnose, rollback, health_sweep
`manage_health`	`tools/health.py`	container_analyze, system_overview, recommendations

Key Files

File	Purpose
`src/server.py`	FastAPI app + CORS + lifespan + web UI mount
`src/podmanmcp/mcp_instance.py`	FastMCP singleton, tool registration trigger
`src/podmanmcp/tool_registration.py`	Imports all tool modules (decorators fire on import)
`src/podmanmcp/podman_context.py`	Podman CLI resolution (native/WSL2), `run_podman_command()`, `check_podman_available` decorator
`src/podman_mcp/web.py`	All REST endpoints: dashboard, health, chat, diagnostics, compose REST bridge
`web_sota/src/App.tsx`	React router (13 routes)
`web_sota/src/lib/api.ts`	API_BASE constant
`web_sota/src/store/connection.ts`	Zustand store for backend connection state

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 771 tokens per session scan A 4dcee8a54bec

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podman-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sandraschi/podman-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 771 tokens to every session, about $0.0031 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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