Crossplane Compass MCP Server

Crossplane Compass is an independently implemented MCP server for platform engineers and AI assistants. It connects installed Crossplane APIs to 24 focused tools over stdio or authenticated…

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What is the Crossplane Compass MCP Server?

Crossplane Compass is an MCP project maintained in the benzaidfoued/crossplane-mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “Crossplane Compass is an independently implemented MCP server for platform engineers and AI assistants. It connects installed Crossplane APIs to 24 focused tools over stdio…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.

Local setup

The project provides a local client configuration using uv. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.

Source

Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-09.

Recorded tools

Check the linked publisher documentation and your connected client's tool list. Names and availability can vary with the server version and account permissions.

ToolWhat it does
Discoverclusters_list, discover, catalog_search, resource_schema
Inspectresources_list, resource_get, resource_events, inventory_summary, external_lookup
Diagnoseresource_trace, diagnose, packages_health, resource_owners, provider_config_check, incident_bundle
Composecomposition_explain, composition_compare, composition_impact
Proposemanifest_scaffold, manifest_validate, manifest_plan
Operateadoption_check, migration_assess, deletion_assess

How to install the Crossplane Compass MCP Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crossplane-compass": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "/absolute/path/crossplane-compass",
        "run",
        "--frozen",
        "crossplane-compass",
        "--context",
        "dev=your-kubeconfig-context",
        "--groups",
        "platform.example.org,cosmosdb.azure.upbound.io"
      ]
    }
  }
}

From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.