# af-jupyterlab-mcp

> MCP Server for per-user JupyterLab server management on the ATLAS AF Kubernetes cluster

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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-jupyterlab-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/maniaclab/af-jupyterlab-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/maniaclab/af-jupyterlab-mcp/issues
- version: 0.2.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:af-jupyterlab-mcp

### Description (declared)

# af-jupyterlab-mcp

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MCP server that lets AF users create, inspect, and delete their own per-user
JupyterLab servers on the UChicago ATLAS Analysis Facility Kubernetes cluster —
the same notebooks [af-portal](https://github.com/maniaclab/af-portal) deploys
today, exposed as tools for LLMs.
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## Architecture

```
LLM <--MCP/HTTP--> af-jupyterlab-mcp <--k8s API--> notebook namespace (Pod/Service/Secret/Ingress)
                         ^
                         | Authorization: Bearer <broker-issued JWT>
                         |
              af-mcp-platform credential broker
```

Phase 1 (this repo, today) ships six tools that manage the Pod/Service/
Secret/Ingress quadruple for a notebook, ported from af-portal's
`portal/jupyterlab.py` and its four Jinja templates. Phase 2 (tracked, not yet
built) adds a typed proxy to the Datalayer `jupyter-mcp-server` running inside
the notebook itself — see
[maniaclab/af-mcp-platform#189](https://github.com/maniaclab/af-mcp-platform/issues/189).
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## Project layout

```
src/af_jupyterlab_mcp/
├── cli.py               # argparse: `af-jupyterlab-mcp serve` (HTTP only)
├── config.py            # env-driven Settings: namespace, domain, image allowlist, quotas
├── server.py            # FastMCP setup, lifespan (k8s client + broker verifier), tool registration
├── auth/
│   └── broker.py        # extract_bearer(), get_broker_claims() -- broker-issued JWT verification
├── k8s/
│   ├── errors.py         # GuardrailError, NameConflictError, NotFoundOrNotYoursError, ...
│   ├── guardrails.py     # CPU/memory/duration range + image allowlist validation
│   ├── names.py          # sanitize_k8s_pod_name, name availability, name generation
│   ├── templates.py      # Jinja rendering of the four ported manifests
│   ├── notebooks.py      # create/get/list/delete notebook (ported portal logic)
│   ├── gpu.py      …

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- security.identity (0.825, derived)
- infra.cloud (0.791, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.779, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/af-jupyterlab-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T08:20:40.925Z)

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