Nmstate MCP

!! WORK IN PROGRESS !!

An MCP server that applies network configuration with nmstate.

The vision is to make network management easier with the power of LLMs and MCP. Please submit issues with ideas :)

The current code is just prototyping. This should probably be rewritten with more thoughtful coding.

Prerequisites

• npm (Optional: for MCP-Superassistant)
• python3
• uv
• python3-libnmstate

Getting Started

From DNF Copr

Instructions on how to set up and run your project from the dnf package manager.

Install from Copr repo: rrajesh/nmstate-mcp

sudo dnf copr enable rrajesh/nmstate-mcp
sudo dnf install nmstate-mcp

Run the setup script

nmstate-mcp-setup

This corresponds to setup_cursor.py for now, and currently only supports Cursor IDE.

Setup inventory.yaml

Setup ~/.nmstate-mcp/inventory.yaml to include remote hosts that you want to configure. nmstate-mcp uses Ansible for remote host configuration.

From Source

Instructions on how to set up and run your project from source.

Install libnmstate

sudo dnf install python3-libnmstate uv

Create venv with system site packages to use libnmstate

uv venv --system-site-packages .venv

source .venv/bin/activate

Download dependencies

uv sync

Command to run the server

uv run --directory <path to project directory> main.py

or if you are in the project directory:

uv run main.py

You will not need to activate the Python virtual environment with this command manually.

Configure the MCP client

Claude Desktop and Cursor, and potentially others, support this "mcpServers" format:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nmstate-mcp": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--directory",
        "<PATH TO YOUR PROJECT>",
        "main.py"
      ]
    },
  }
}

For MCP SuperAssistant: Run the proxy server

This will also run the nmstate mcp server implementation. See mcpconfig.json, and please edit it to reflect your directory setup. UV run documentation: docs.astral.sh/uv/reference/cli/#uv-run

npx @srbhptl39/mcp-superassistant-proxy@latest --config ./mcpconfig.json

Remote Host Configuration

Pre-requisites:

• Ansible.
• SSH.
• For demo purposes, you can give passwordless sudo in the VM or figure out another way to authenticate. You cannot get a password prompt through Cursor.