# zsnoop-mcp

> MCP server for ZFS snapshot exploration and recovery on remote hosts over SSH (read-only by default, opt-in restore; AI-assisted)

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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/zsnoop-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://hamsolodev.github.io/zsnoop-mcp/
- repository: https://github.com/hamsolodev/zsnoop-mcp/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- version: 0.4.1
- protocols: mcp
- tags: ai-assisted, claude-code, mcp, snapshots, ssh, zfs
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:zsnoop-mcp

### Description (declared)

# zsnoop-mcp

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**Ask your AI assistant things like:**

- ⏪ *"Recover my `.zshrc` from before I committed the rewrite three weeks ago."*
- 🧹 *"Which snapshots older than 6 months are wasting the most space?"*
- 🔎 *"When did the directory `/srv/backups` first appear on this host?"*
- ⌛ *"Find everything deleted under `/home/youruser` in the last week, and show me when each thing was last present."*
- 🏥 *"Are any of my pools throwing disk errors? When was the last scrub?"*

An MCP server for **ZFS snapshot exploration and recovery on remote hosts** —
read-only by default, with opt-in `restore_*` tools (v0.4.0+) gated per host.

Browse, diff, search, and read files from any snapshot on any of your ZFS
hosts through your AI assistant, over a single persistent SSH connection per
host. Read-only by default; the writable `restore_file` / `restore_dir`
tools (v0.4.0+) are opt-in per host and bounded by an operator-defined
path allowlist — with the stock config, nothing on the remote can be
written.

## Quickstart

```sh
# 1. Install
uv tool install zsnoop-mcp        # or: pipx install zsnoop-mcp

# 2. Configure one host (more in docs/INSTALL.md)
mkdir -p ~/.config/zsnoop-mcp
cat > ~/.config/zsnoop-mcp/hosts.toml <<'EOF'
[hosts.myhost]
ssh_target = "myhost.example.com"
agent_mode = "bootstrap"
sudo       = false
EOF

# 3. Register the MCP server with Claude Code
claude mcp add zsnoop --scope user -- zsnoop-mcp

# 4. Restart Claude Code, then ask your assistant any of the prompts above.
```

The agent is st…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.filesystem (1, derived)
- ai.prompting (0.791, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/zsnoop-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T16:24:07.094Z)

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