flux-mcp

🌀 Agentic MCP tools for Flux Framework

Related Projects

• fractale-mcp: (fractale) MCP orchestration (agents, databases, ui interfaces).

• hpc-mcp: HPC tools for a larger set of HPC and converged computing use cases.

Related MCP server: clausius

Usage

These Flux MCP tools can be used via a standalone server, or combined with other tools. Note that along with flux-python (comes packaged with Flux, or pip install flux-python==<version> you can optionally install flux-sched-py for flux-sched functionality.

Server

We provide examples for fastmcp and a vanilla mcp (stdio) setup. Neither requirements are added to the install directly, so it's up to the user (you) to install. Tests are performed with fastmcp.

fastmcp

You will need fastapi and fastmcp installed.

# fastmcp
pip install fastmcp fastapi
# in the devcontainer
pip install fastmcp fastapi --break-system-packages

To start the demo server:

# Vanilla MCP (with cli)
echo '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "initialize", "params": {"protocolVersion": "2024-11-05", "capabilities": {}, "clientInfo": {"name": "test", "version": "1.0"}}}' | python3 -m flux_mcp.server | jq

# Initialize and list tools
(echo '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "initialize", "params": {"protocolVersion": "2024-11-05", "capabilities": {}, "clientInfo": {"name": "manual-test", "version": "1.0"}}}';
 echo '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "notifications/initialized"}';
 echo '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 2, "method": "tools/list"}') | python3 -m flux_mcp.server | jq

# FastMCP
python3 -m flux_mcp.server.fastmcp

Docker

We have a provided Dockerfile that builds and includes mcp-server to provide the basic set of Flux endpoints (submit, info, cancel, etc) via the configuration file flux-mcp.yaml. You can tweak that file and build, or just use from our GitHub packages registry.

docker build -t ghcr.io/converged-computing/flux-mcp:latest .
docker run -it -p 8089:8089 ghcr.io/converged-computing/flux-mcp:latest

Testing

You need pytest

pip install pytest --break-system-packages

I will add tools to git as I write tests for them. To test, start the fastmcp server in one terminal:

python3 -m flux_mcp.server.fastmcp

To test flux-sched, ensure libreapi_cli.so is on the LD_LIBRARY_PATH of the server:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/flux/
python3 -m flux_mcp.server.fastmcp

In another terminal, run the test. You'll need to pip install pytest pytest-asyncio

pytest -xs tests/test_flux_validate.py
pytest -xs tests/test_flux_counts.py
pytest -xs tests/test_flux_job_delegation.py
pytest -xs tests/test_flux_job_core.py
pytest -xs tests/test_transformers.py
pytest -xs tests/test_flux_resource.py

# Requires libreapi_cli.so
pytest -xs tests/test_flux_sched.py

# or
pytest -xs tests/test_*.py

Tools

Tools to add:

• flux

  • flux-sched

    • grow

    • shrink

    • create resource graph

    • match allocate

    • cancel

    • partial-cancel

    • satisfy

  • flux-core

    • submit jobs

    • job info

    • cancel job

    • validator

      • counter

      • batch jobs

      • canonical jobspec

      • json jobspec

  • topology?

  • delegation

  • local flux URI

  • translation (the transformers?)

TODO

• Add annotated descriptions to all functions for LLM.

License

HPCIC DevTools is distributed under the terms of the MIT license. All new contributions must be made under this license.

See LICENSE, COPYRIGHT, and NOTICE for details.

SPDX-License-Identifier: (MIT)

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