# af-filesystem-mcp

> MCP server for per-user, impersonated filesystem access on the AF platform

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/af-filesystem-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/maniaclab/af-filesystem-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/maniaclab/af-filesystem-mcp/issues
- version: 0.1.3
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:af-filesystem-mcp

### Description (declared)

# af-filesystem-mcp v0.1.3

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An MCP server that gives an AF (Analysis Facility) user browse/read access to
their own files on the AF's shared NFS home (`/home/<unixname>`) and Ceph data
area (`/data/<unixname>`) — nothing more. Designed to sit behind
af-mcp-platform's credential broker so an LLM session can look at a user's own
analysis outputs, condor logs, and scratch files without a human copying paths
around.

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## What it does

- **List** a directory (`fs_list`)
- **Read** a file, by byte range or line range, including head/tail (`fs_read`)
- **Stat** a path — size, mtime, type, permissions (`fs_stat`)
- **Grep** for a pattern across files under a directory, capped in files scanned
  and matches returned (`fs_grep`)

That is the entire v1 tool surface. There is deliberately no write tool, no
delete, no chmod, no arbitrary command execution, and no full-tree walk
(directory-size, duplicate-finder). See `CLAUDE.md` for the design rationale and
phase-2 (write) plan.

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## Security model

Every filesystem operation for user _alice_ runs in a short-lived helper
subprocess **impersonating alice's real uid/gid** — the server process itself
(running as root, holding only `CAP_SETUID`/`CAP_SETGID`) never reads or writes
a byte of user data directly. This means the kernel (and, for the NFS-mounted
homes, the NFS server) enforces every permission check against the real
identity: even a bug in this server's own path-pinning logic can only let alice
reach what alice's real uid could already reach. See `CLAUDE.md` § "Security
model" and `src/af_filesystem_mcp/paths.py` for the full design rationale, and
[maniaclab/af-mcp-platform#188](https://github.com/maniaclab/af-mcp-platform/issues/188)
for the workplan and the (rejected) alternatives this design was chosen over.

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## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.filesystem (1, derived)
- security.identity (0.859, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.779, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/af-filesystem-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T08:20:40.426Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/af-filesystem-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/af-filesystem-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:af-filesystem-mcp