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VMware Pilot

Author: Wei Zhou, VMware by Broadcom — wei-wz.zhou@broadcom.com This is a community-driven project by a VMware engineer, not an official VMware product. For official VMware developer tools see developer.broadcom.com.

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Multi-step workflow orchestration for VMware MCP skills — state machine, approval gates, audit trail.

Companion skills handle everything else:

Skill

Scope

Install

vmware-aiops

VM lifecycle, deployment, guest ops, cluster

uv tool install vmware-aiops

vmware-monitor

Read-only: inventory, health, alarms, events

uv tool install vmware-monitor

vmware-storage

Datastores, iSCSI, vSAN management

uv tool install vmware-storage

vmware-vks

Tanzu Namespaces, TKC cluster lifecycle

uv tool install vmware-vks

vmware-nsx

NSX networking: segments, gateways, NAT

uv tool install vmware-nsx-mgmt

vmware-nsx-security

DFW firewall rules, security groups

uv tool install vmware-nsx-security

vmware-aria

Aria Ops: metrics, alerts, capacity

uv tool install vmware-aria

vmware-avi

AVI load balancing, pool management, AKO K8s ops

uv tool install vmware-avi

Install

uv tool install vmware-pilot
vmware-pilot mcp          # start the MCP server (stdio)

Offline / Air-Gapped Install (from source)

This project uses the modern PEP 517 build system (hatchling), so there is no setup.py by design — that is expected, not a missing file. If you cloned the source and hit ERROR: File "setup.py" or "setup.cfg" not found ... editable mode currently requires a setuptools-based build, your pip is older than 21.3 and cannot do an editable (-e) install with a non-setuptools backend. Editable mode is a developer convenience, not needed to run the tool — do one of:

# From the source tree — a normal (non-editable) install builds a wheel:
pip install .              # NOT  pip install -e .

# ...or upgrade pip first, and editable works too:
pip install --upgrade pip && pip install -e .

For a truly air-gapped host, build the wheels on a connected machine and copy them over — the target then needs no network:

# On a connected machine, collect this package + its dependencies as wheels:
pip wheel . -w dist        # → dist/*.whl   (or: uv build, for just this package)

# Copy dist/ to the air-gapped host, then install offline:
pip install --no-index --find-links dist vmware-pilot

MCP Tools (13 — 4 read, 9 write)

Tool

Description

get_skill_catalog

List all available skills and tools for workflow design

list_workflows

List built-in and custom templates

review_workflow

Sanity-check a planned workflow before execution

design_workflow

Natural language goal → draft workflow

update_draft

Edit draft workflow steps

confirm_draft

Finalize draft → ready to execute

plan_workflow

Generate execution plan from template, returns workflow_id

create_workflow

Create custom workflow from step list

run_workflow

Execute workflow, pauses at approval gates

get_workflow_status

Query state + diff report + audit log

approve

Human approval, continue execution

rollback

Abort and rollback at any stage

cancel_workflow

Cancel a workflow — move it to the terminal CANCELLED state

MCP Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vmware-pilot": {
      "command": "vmware-pilot",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Fallback: {"command": "uvx", "args": ["--from", "vmware-pilot", "vmware-pilot-mcp"]} still works, but uvx re-resolves against PyPI on every start and fails behind a TLS-inspecting corporate proxy (invalid peer certificate: UnknownIssuer). The installed entry point above touches the network zero times; set UV_NATIVE_TLS=true if you must use uvx.

License

MIT