# af-jupyterhub-mcp

> MCP Server for launching and driving per-user JupyterHub servers on the ATLAS Analysis Facility

Record `af-jupyterhub-mcp` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/af-jupyterhub-mcp/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/af-jupyterhub-mcp
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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-jupyterhub-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/maniaclab/af-jupyterhub-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/maniaclab/af-jupyterhub-mcp/issues
- version: 0.1.1
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:af-jupyterhub-mcp

### Description (declared)

# af-jupyterhub-mcp

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MCP server that lets UChicago ATLAS Analysis Facility users start, inspect,
stop, and delete their own JupyterHub named servers on
[jupyterhub.af.uchicago.edu](https://jupyterhub.af.uchicago.edu), and work
inside them (run code, edit notebooks, drive the JupyterLab UI), as tools for
LLMs behind the [af-mcp-platform](https://github.com/maniaclab/af-mcp-platform)
broker.

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## Architecture

```
LLM <--MCP/HTTP--> af-mcp-platform aggregator --Bearer: linked hub token--> af-jupyterhub-mcp
                                                                              |
                                      JupyterHub REST API  <------------------+
                                      /hub/api/users/<you>/servers/<name>     |
                                      hub proxy /user/<you>/<name>/mcp  <-----+--> jupyter-mcp-server
```

Everything goes through JupyterHub and nothing else. Servers are started with
`POST /hub/api/users/<you>/servers/<name>`, whose body is the spawner's
`user_options` (image, site, CPU, memory, QoS, GPUs). The tool then follows the
hub's spawn progress stream, sending MCP progress notifications until the server
is ready. Notebook tools reach the server's own `jupyter-mcp-server` through the
hub proxy, so they work for servers on any site (`local`, `ssl`, `nrp`). The
backend never talks to Kubernetes or BinderHub. Servers launched from the
BinderHub UI are ordinary named servers of the same user, so they show up and
work here too.

Launched images must include `jupyterhub-singleuser` (ml_platform has since
[#21](https://github.com/maniaclab/ml_platform/pull/21)) and
`jupyter-mcp-server` (plus `jupyter-mcp-tools` for the `nb_ui_*` tools).

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## Authentication

- **The user's own hub token.** af-mcp-platform links each user's JupyterHub
  account through the hub's OAuth (…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- security.identity (1, derived)
- code.execution (0.814, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/af-jupyterhub-mcp/ (first seen 2026-11-05T21:24:13.972Z)

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