kubectl MCP Plugin

What it is

A kubectl plugin that turns the CLI you already have into an MCP server. Rather than hand-writing a tool per resource, it recursively traverses the kubectl command tree and registers each command with its description, usage, flags and parameters, so the assistant discovers what kubectl can do from kubectl itself. It runs over stdio.

What you get

• Every kubectl command — get, apply, delete and the rest — exposed as a tool with the prefix kubectl___
• Each command's help text, flags and required parameters carried through, so the model can pick arguments rather than guess
• Structured responses that a model can parse instead of raw terminal output
• A stdio server invoked as kubectl-mcp, which works anywhere the plugin is on PATH

Requirements

A working kubectl with a valid kubeconfig — the plugin runs as you, with whatever cluster access your context already has. Build with make kubectl-mcp, move the binary onto your PATH, and confirm with kubectl plugin list | grep mcp. Register it in your client's config as the kubectl-mcp command. Resource creation and other long operations have a 45-second timeout on the response while the process keeps running in the background, so watch those separately.

Setup effort

Build from source — git clone https://github.com/dims/kubectl-mcp.git

Requires

• kubectl with a working kubeconfig — the tools run as you, against your current context
• Go and make, to build the plugin

Where it runs

The documented client runs the server on your machine.