Local YDB MCP

local-ydb-toolkit

Toolkit for operating local-ydb deployments across Codex, MCP clients, and GitHub Actions CI.

Website: local-ydb-toolkit.ydb-qdrant.tech.

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It includes:

• a reusable Codex skill for local and SSH local-ydb operations;
• an unofficial local stdio MCP server published as @astandrik/local-ydb-mcp;
• a Marketplace GitHub Action, astandrik/setup-local-ydb, for booting disposable YDB tenants in CI.

Discovery and trust

The maintained listing hub, including third-party directory status and freshness notes, is on the project website. External scores, tool counts, and install metrics are directory snapshots, not security attestations.

VerifyMCP reports automated checks of the published npm package, including provenance and MCP schema checks. Its score is not a security certification or a verification of operations against a configured Docker/YDB deployment.

Relationship to ydb/ydb-mcp

Local YDB MCP is complementary to the official ydb-platform/ydb-mcp server. Use ydb/ydb-mcp when an agent needs general YDB database-level tools such as ad hoc SQL queries, query explanations, directory listing, and path inspection against an existing YDB endpoint.

Use this toolkit when the agent needs to operate Docker-based local-ydb environments themselves: host prerequisite checks, root or tenant bootstrap, dynamic-node lifecycle, GraphShard checks, table DDL generation/validation/application for local deployments, auth hardening, storage workflows, dump/restore, and version upgrades. Its local_ydb_sql tool is deliberately narrower than ydb/ydb-mcp: it runs managed YQL only against the selected configured local-ydb profile. Mutating MCP tools are plan-first and require confirm: true before they execute changes.

Agent Plugin Quick Start

The repository is an Agent Plugins 1.0 package with a reusable local-ydb skill and the pinned local stdio MCP server. Add its repo marketplace and install the plugin with Codex:

codex plugin marketplace add astandrik/local-ydb-toolkit --ref main
codex plugin add local-ydb-toolkit@local-ydb-toolkit

Start a new Codex session after installation so the bundled skill and MCP server are loaded. The MCP launcher requires Node.js 20.19 or newer plus npx; its first start can access the npm registry to install the pinned @astandrik/[email protected] package.

Agent Plugins start a stdio server with the installed plugin root as its working directory. Use an absolute configPath on profile-based tool calls, or set LOCAL_YDB_TOOLKIT_CONFIG to an absolute path in the MCP client environment. An explicit path must name a readable regular JSON file no larger than 1 MiB; missing or invalid explicit files fail closed instead of selecting the default profile. Do not rely on a project-local local-ydb.config.json being discovered from the caller's repository.

The public OpenAI submission artifact is deliberately skills-only because public MCP-backed submissions require a production HTTPS MCP server. Local Docker/YDB operations remain in the repo-marketplace plugin and the npm stdio package.

Claude Code Plugin

The repository also contains a Claude Code plugin manifest. Claude discovers the existing skills/ directory and pinned .mcp.json server from their default plugin-root locations. Before the Claude Community review is complete, test the repository directly with a current Claude Code release:

claude plugin validate .
claude --plugin-dir .

The Claude Community submission is pending review and is not described as publicly installable until it appears in the community catalog. The same Node.js, absolute configPath, LOCAL_YDB_TOOLKIT_CONFIG, execution-boundary, and confirm: true requirements apply.

Gemini CLI / Antigravity Plugin

The root gemini-extension.json adapts the same skills/local-ydb skill and pinned local stdio MCP server for Gemini CLI extensions. Install the repository directly:

gemini extensions install https://github.com/astandrik/local-ydb-toolkit --ref=main --auto-update

Gemini CLI prompts for optional extension settings during installation. Set LOCAL_YDB_TOOLKIT_CONFIG to an absolute config path, or leave it blank and pass an absolute configPath on profile-based tool calls. LOCAL_YDB_MCP_CONTENT_FORMAT may be left blank for JSON or set to toon. The MCP launcher requires Node.js 20.19 or newer plus npx, and a new session is required after installation.

Google routes consumer Gemini CLI users through Antigravity CLI. Its supported migration command converts installed Gemini extensions, including bundled skills and MCP configuration, into native Antigravity plugins:

agy plugin import gemini

The migration utility searches the legacy Gemini extension directories, so its reported results can include other installed extensions as well.

The repository is not listed in the Gemini extension gallery until the owner adds the gemini-cli-extension GitHub topic and the daily crawler accepts the manifest. Direct installation and local validation do not imply gallery publication.

Codex Skill Quick Start

The easiest install path for Codex is to ask Codex to install the skill from this repository:

$skill-installer install https://github.com/astandrik/local-ydb-toolkit/tree/main/skills/local-ydb

Restart Codex if the skill does not appear immediately.

Manual fallback for Codex:

git clone https://github.com/astandrik/local-ydb-toolkit.git
cd local-ydb-toolkit
SKILLS_DIR="${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}/skills"
mkdir -p "$SKILLS_DIR"
cp -R skills/local-ydb "$SKILLS_DIR/local-ydb"

Use in GitHub Actions CI

Use astandrik/setup-local-ydb when a GitHub Actions job needs an ephemeral local YDB tenant:

- uses: astandrik/setup-local-ydb@v1
  id: ydb
  with:
    version: 26.1.1.6
    tenant: /local/test

- run: |
    echo "$LOCAL_YDB_ENDPOINT"
    echo "$LOCAL_YDB_DATABASE"

The action starts ghcr.io/ydb-platform/local-ydb, creates the tenant database, waits for readiness, optionally enables native YDB auth, and exports LOCAL_YDB_ENDPOINT, LOCAL_YDB_DATABASE, and LOCAL_YDB_MONITORING_URL for later workflow steps. Add auth: true when tests need authenticated YDB behavior; in that mode it also exports LOCAL_YDB_USER and LOCAL_YDB_PASSWORD_FILE without exposing the raw password value.

This repository dogfoods the Marketplace action in CI. .github/workflows/setup-local-ydb-smoke.yml keeps a short action-level smoke test, while .github/workflows/local-ydb-mcp-integration.yml starts the real stdio MCP server and verifies prompts, read-only tools, schema DDL apply, the managed SQL query/explain/execute safety matrix, plan-only behavior, path-level dump/list/restore with restore hooks, and a confirmed dynamic-node add/remove against a live YDB tenant. The concise GitHub Developer Program artifact is in docs/github-developer-program.md.

Skill Contents

skills/local-ydb/
  SKILL.md
  agents/openai.yaml
  references/
    auth-hardening.md
    history-and-non-goals.md
    storage-migration.md
    topology.md
    verification.md
  scripts/
  assets/

The skill covers reusable operational guidance for:

• Docker-based local-ydb topologies using ghcr.io/ydb-platform/local-ydb
• CMS-created tenants and GraphShard behavior
• dynamic nodes and mandatory-auth node registration
• YDB native auth hardening and monitoring exposure
• storage pools, BSC placement checks, PDisks, dump/restore, and rebuild workflows
• upstream ydb-platform/ydb source lookup through gh api

The skill intentionally avoids private hostnames, IPs, user-specific paths, passwords, tokens, backup paths, and app-specific deployment details. Public examples use placeholders such as /local/<tenant>, /path/to/root.password, <host>, and <public-domain>.

Node.js MCP Server

This repository also contains an unofficial local stdio MCP server for operating local-ydb targets. The MCP server itself runs locally; tools operate either on the local Docker host or over SSH to a named remote profile.

Official MCP Registry metadata is prepared in server.json under the name io.github.astandrik/local-ydb-mcp. This remains a local stdio server, not a remote MCP endpoint.

Tools

The server exposes 39 tools. This index is generated from the runtime tool registry; edit toolDefinitions and run npm run docs:generate to update it.

Checks

Schema

Sql

Auth

Storage

Lifecycle

Dynamic Nodes

Backup Restore

The npm package requires Node.js 20.19 or newer.

Inspect the installed CLI without starting the MCP server:

local-ydb-mcp --version
local-ydb-mcp --help

Or run the same commands through npm:

npx --yes @astandrik/local-ydb-mcp@latest --version
npx --yes @astandrik/local-ydb-mcp@latest --help

Each flag prints to stdout and exits with code 0, without loading the toolkit config. Unknown arguments, repeated flags, and combinations of flags print a usage error to stderr and exit with code 2. Only the long --version and --help flags are supported. Start without arguments for normal MCP stdio operation; do not add these diagnostic flags to the MCP client launch configuration.

Use the npm package directly from an MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "local-ydb": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "--prefer-online", "@astandrik/local-ydb-mcp@latest"],
      "env": {
        "LOCAL_YDB_TOOLKIT_CONFIG": "/path/to/local-ydb.config.json",
        "LOCAL_YDB_MCP_CONTENT_FORMAT": "toon"
      }
    }
  }
}

This form checks the npm registry when the MCP server starts, so clients pick up newly published versions after restarting the MCP client.

Or install the command globally:

npm install -g @astandrik/local-ydb-mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "local-ydb": {
      "command": "local-ydb-mcp",
      "env": {
        "LOCAL_YDB_TOOLKIT_CONFIG": "/path/to/local-ydb.config.json",
        "LOCAL_YDB_MCP_CONTENT_FORMAT": "toon"
      }
    }
  }
}

For development from a checkout:

npm install
npm run build

Example MCP client config for a local checkout:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "local-ydb": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/local-ydb-toolkit/packages/mcp-server/dist/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "LOCAL_YDB_TOOLKIT_CONFIG": "/path/to/local-ydb.config.json",
        "LOCAL_YDB_MCP_CONTENT_FORMAT": "toon"
      }
    }
  }
}

LOCAL_YDB_MCP_CONTENT_FORMAT is optional. Use toon to prefer TOON for the LLM-facing text content block while keeping MCP JSON-RPC and structuredContent as JSON; omit it or set json for the default pretty JSON text. If a payload cannot be represented as lossless, decodable TOON, the server falls back to pretty JSON for that text block.

Start from examples/local-ydb.config.example.json and keep private hosts, SSH keys, password files, and backup paths outside committed config.

Explicit configuration through configPath or LOCAL_YDB_TOOLKIT_CONFIG supports arbitrary absolute files. A present but empty environment value is still explicit and is rejected. The file must exist, be a readable regular file no larger than 1 MiB, match the strict configuration schema, and name an existing profiles entry in defaultProfile. Only an absent implicit local-ydb.config.json in the server's current working directory falls back to the built-in default profile; explicit configuration errors never do. Configuration errors expose a stable code without echoing file contents, parser snippets, or the absolute path.

MCP Features

The MCP server exposes tools for local-ydb operations and prompts for guided workflows. Prompt templates cover stack diagnosis, root database bootstrap, database diagnostics, tenant topology bootstrap, schema generation/apply, version upgrades, auth hardening, and storage group reduction. Prompts do not execute commands; they return workflow instructions that guide the MCP client toward the existing local_ydb_* tools. When supplied to a prompt, configPath must be an absolute path, matching the tool-call contract.

Mutating tools remain plan-only unless called with confirm: true. Static MCP resources are intentionally left for a separate follow-up so the server does not expose private target configuration as context.

Target Profiles

Profiles are selected by tool argument:

{
  "profile": "remote-demo"
}

If omitted, the server uses defaultProfile. A profile can use:

• mode: "local" for commands on the local Docker host;
• mode: "ssh" for commands executed through ssh -o BatchMode=yes -o ConnectTimeout=10.

Tenant profiles may set dynamicNodeCount to the total number of declarative dynamic nodes, including the primary node. The value defaults to 1 and accepts 1..11; root-only bootstrap ignores it. Node 1 uses dynamicContainer and the base dynamicGrpc, dynamicMonitoring, and dynamicIc ports. Nodes 2..N use <dynamicContainer>-<index> and each base port plus index - 1. All dynamic processes share the static container's network namespace, where the static node reserves IC port 19001, so the complete configured topology must use distinct valid gRPC, monitoring, and IC ports that do not collide with that port. Tenant bootstrap publishes static gRPC and every configured dynamic gRPC port on loopback through the static container; one-off nodes do not change those immutable bindings.

SSH profiles use existing SSH agent/key/known_hosts configuration. The toolkit does not store SSH passwords. On Linux Docker Engine, SDK-backed tools such as local_ydb_sql and local_ydb_apply_schema can reach gRPC ports that remain Docker-internal: the toolkit inspects the selected container, resolves its IPv4 address in profile.network (including a dynamic node using network_mode=container:<static>), and forwards the local SSH tunnel to that address. It verifies the tunnel with an authenticated YDB discovery request before sending the operation. Docker Desktop and rootless Docker fallbacks are not supported by this path; a target-resolution or readiness failure is reported with a fixed phase-specific diagnostic without exposing container addresses, SSH output, credentials, or paths.

Operations

Read-only tools collect inventory, tenant state, YDB healthcheck/self-check output, schema objects, generated table DDL, schema permissions, node state, GraphShard state, auth posture, storage placement, leftover storage candidates, published local-ydb image tags, and background image-pull status.

local_ydb_check_prerequisites is the expected first step on a new host or profile. It reports the Docker CLI separately from Docker daemon reachability, along with curl, ruby, and auth-file prerequisites. Missing CLI/files and unavailable services are separate lists, and ready=true means every check is usable. An unreachable SSH target returns ready=false, missing=[], and unavailable=["target"] without a package-install plan. With confirm: true, the tool can auto-install supported host helpers such as curl and ruby through apt-get, then reruns every prerequisite probe and returns that post-install snapshot; Docker installation and daemon startup remain manual.

local_ydb_healthcheck runs YDB's built-in monitoring healthcheck --format json against the configured tenant path by default. It returns selfCheckResult, whether the database is healthy, issue counts by status, issue types, capped raw stdout/stderr, and truncated issue_log entries. noCache and noMerge request the corresponding semantics; when an older CLI rejects either option with the recognized legacy parser signature, the tool records it in optionResolution and warnings. If the shared deadline still permits, the tool may retry after dropping only the rejected option; compatibilityFallback indicates whether such a retry actually started. Do not describe the result as fresh or unmerged unless the requested option remains in optionResolution.effective. Use it after local_ydb_status_report for database-level diagnostics, then route storage, compute, scheme, auth, or log checks from the reported issue types.

Mutating tools include image pulls, root-database bootstrap, tenant topology bootstrap, tenant creation, dynamic-node startup, restart, table schema DDL application, schema permissions changes, dump, restore, auth config application, root-password rotation, storage-pool reduction by rebuild, version upgrade by dump/rebuild/restore, and explicit storage cleanup. They are plan-only unless called with:

{
  "confirm": true
}

Without confirm: true, mutating tools return planned commands, risk, rollback notes, and verification steps.

Managed SQL/YQL

local_ydb_sql uses YDB Query Service for managed YQL v1 against the selected configured local-ydb profile:

The script must be well-formed Unicode and is limited to 1,048,576 characters; lone UTF-16 surrogates are rejected before hashing or protobuf encoding. One deadline covers connection, session, preflight, and execution: timeoutMs defaults to 120,000 and is capped at 600,000. maxRows defaults to 100 and is capped at 10,000 per result set, but the first row-limit hit stops all further result capture: read-only execution is cancelled, while confirmed NoTx execution drains without capturing later output. maxOutputBytes defaults to 65,536 and is capped at 1 MiB across captured issues, plan/AST, column metadata, and complete rows; partial JSON values are never returned.

Parameters use bare names matching [A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*. The tool sorts names and prepends deterministic DECLARE $name AS Type; statements. Recursive descriptors support primitive/Decimal, Optional, List, Tuple, Struct, and Dict types, with limits of 100 parameters, depth 16, 1,000 type nodes, 10,000 parameter value nodes, and 1 MiB of serialized values; Decimal precision is 1..35 and scale cannot exceed precision. Use JSON numbers for 32-bit integers; decimal strings for 64-bit integers, Decimal, and DyNumber, with canonical "nan", "inf", and "-inf" also accepted for Decimal; canonical base64 for binary String and Yson; well-formed Unicode for Utf8 strings and Struct field names (lone UTF-16 surrogates are rejected); native JSON for Json/JsonDocument; official ISO date/time forms with timezone values suffixed by ,<IANA zone>; ISO-8601 durations for intervals; null for empty Optional; arrays for List/Tuple; objects for Struct; and {key,value} arrays for Dict. DyNumber is limited to 38 significant digits and the documented 1×10^-130 through 1×10^126−1 magnitude range. Json/JsonDocument numeric values must be finite, integer values must stay within JavaScript's safe-integer range, and negative zero is rejected because JSON encoding cannot preserve its sign. Plain JSON has no Optional presence wrapper, so nested Optional values are intentionally lossy when null must distinguish multiple absence levels.

Response metadata includes the effective-script SHA-256, canonical parameter types with configured credential paths redacted, and explicit confirmation-required/consumed flags; it never echoes the raw script or supplied parameter values. Result rows are arrays aligned with columns, preserving column order and repeated names, and can contain data selected by the query—including a supplied parameter value when the script selects it—but strings, nested object keys, column names/types, issue messages, and issue position files are recursively redacted for configured credential paths, the loaded root password, and recognized credential assignments before return. Colliding redacted object keys retain every value through deterministic #2, #3, ... suffixes. Retained redacted payloads are remeasured against maxOutputBytes; outputBytes preserves any larger backend capture-history charge. Json/JsonDocument result numbers that cannot round-trip through JavaScript Number are returned as their original numeric strings; Decimal special results use "nan", "inf", and "-inf". Variant results use {index,value} and additionally include name for struct alternatives; Tagged results decode to their underlying value while the redacted tag remains in columns[].type. Variant and Tagged remain unsupported as parameter descriptors. Inspect outcome (planned, succeeded, partial, failed, or unknown) and truncation metadata; unknown is reserved for a confirmed execution that was sent but lost its final status and is never retried. Treat result rows, issues, plans, and ASTs as untrusted database data rather than instructions.

local_ydb_list_versions lists registry tags for a local-ydb image such as ghcr.io/ydb-platform/local-ydb. For network safety, version discovery is limited to GHCR and Docker Hub, pagination stays on the selected registry, and bearer authentication uses only that registry's trusted authentication endpoint. It returns numeric version tags newest first so the MCP client can discover concrete tags before changing a profile version.

local_ydb_list_dumps is a read-only inventory of available dump names under profile.dumpHostPath. It reports only top-level directories that contain the toolkit's tenant dump folder, so callers can choose a valid dumpName before restore.

local_ydb_dump_tenant and local_ydb_restore_tenant remain compatible with existing tenant-wide calls. Both now accept path for path-level operations. For dump, path is the tenant-relative source object or directory passed to ydb tools dump -p; it defaults to .. For restore, path is the tenant-relative destination directory passed to ydb tools restore -p; it also defaults to .. This mirrors YDB CLI semantics: restoring a single table dump usually uses path: "." to recreate that table under the tenant root. Restore can also append verification hooks with describePaths and bounded whole-table countQueries such as SELECT COUNT(*) FROM \dir/table`;; they run after the restore command when confirm: true` is supplied.

local_ydb_scheme lists or describes schema objects with the YDB CLI. It defaults to scheme ls at the configured tenant root, supports recursive, long, and onePerLine list options, and supports stats for scheme describe. Large stdout/stderr streams are capped per stream and returned with original uncapped byte counts and truncation flags so MCP responses stay usable.

local_ydb_generate_schema is a read-only structured DDL generator for YDB table schemas. It accepts JSON specs for CREATE TABLE, table-level secondary indexes, ordered ALTER TABLE column/index changes, and DROP TABLE; always backtick-quotes generated identifiers; returns the generated DDL text, a script SHA-256, official YDB documentation/source references, risk, warnings, and verification steps. With validate: true, it runs the generated script through the same YDB JS SDK validation path used by local_ydb_apply_schema, but it never applies DDL. Generated scripts use the same 1 MiB size limit as local_ydb_apply_schema. In with settings, setting names must be YQL-style identifiers, string values render as quoted YQL literals, use { "token": "ENABLED" } for bare-token settings such as AUTO_PARTITIONING_BY_SIZE = ENABLED, and use the top-level store field instead of with.STORE. Column names cannot use the reserved __ydb_ prefix. CREATE TABLE notNull is supported only for columns that are part of the primaryKey; use application validation for non-key required business fields. partitionByHash is accepted only for store: "column" and primary key columns, column-oriented table primary keys must be NOT NULL and use the documented supported key types, secondary and vector indexes are kept to row-oriented tables, normal secondary indexes are global-only and do not accept with settings during creation, unique indexes must be synchronous, ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN accepts only a name and type, duplicate add/drop column/index actions are rejected in one alterTable spec, indexes cannot target columns added or dropped in the same alterTable spec, vector_kmeans_tree requires a non-unique global: true, sync: "sync" index with the full documented settings, CREATE TABLE with a vector index returns a warning because adding the vector index after loading representative data is preferred, and column defaults are rendered as type-aware YQL defaults such as Utf8('x'), Uint64('1'), or Date('2026-05-27').

local_ydb_apply_schema validates or applies YDB table DDL through the official YDB JS SDK (@ydbjs/*). It accepts raw YQL DDL for PRAGMA, CREATE TABLE, ALTER TABLE, and DROP TABLE; the server delegates exact syntax validation to YDB instead of maintaining a partial SQL parser. action: "validate" never applies changes. action: "apply" validates first and applies only when confirm: true is supplied. Responses return a script SHA-256, statement kinds, validation/execution status, capped issue text, risk, rollback notes, and verification steps without echoing the raw script or configured credential paths.

For table creation, prefer a CMS tenant path such as /local/example. A root-only /local stack can validate DDL through the static endpoint, but YDB will reject storage-backed table creation there when the root database has no tenant storage pools.

local_ydb_permissions manages YDB schema ACLs through scheme permissions. Its read-only list action defaults to the configured tenant root and runs without confirm. Mutating actions grant, revoke, set, clear, chown, set-inheritance, and clear-inheritance return a plan unless confirm: true is supplied. For grant, revoke, and set, pass permission names as a structured permissions array; each item is emitted as a separate -p CLI argument.

local_ydb_pull_image starts a background docker pull for a profile image or explicit image and returns a jobId immediately. Poll local_ydb_pull_status with that jobId until it reaches completed before retrying bootstrap or upgrade. Known jobs include a monotonic progressPercent: an approximate completed-layer percentage from 0 to 99 while running, 100 after successful completion, and the last observed value after failure. This keeps slow registry downloads out of synchronous bootstrap/upgrade tool calls without claiming byte-level progress.

local_ydb_bootstrap_root_database creates only the root local database stack:

• Docker network and volume or bind mount;
• static ydb-local node with loopback-published monitoring and static gRPC port;
• root database verification with scheme ls /local through the static gRPC endpoint.

Use it for generic local YDB requests when the caller did not explicitly ask for a tenant. It does not create a CMS tenant or start dynamic tenant nodes.

Both bootstrap paths reuse an existing running or stopped static container only when its exact image reference and current image ID, network, /ydb_data mount, complete loopback port bindings, required environment, unless-stopped restart policy, and disabled healthcheck match the selected profile. Tenant bootstrap additionally requires GraphShard plus static gRPC and every configured dynamic gRPC binding. Configured dynamic container names must be distinct from the static container name, and all shared-network ports are validated before a tenant bootstrap plan is returned or executed. Increasing dynamicNodeCount therefore makes both tenant bootstrap and restart reject a static container created for the smaller topology before any dynamic-node mutation. Any inspect failure or mismatch requires an explicit destroy/bootstrap rebuild; neither operation silently removes or replaces the static container or its volume.

local_ydb_bootstrap creates a GraphShard-ready Docker topology:

• Docker network and volume or bind mount;
• static ydb-local node with YDB_FEATURE_FLAGS=enable_graph_shard and loopback-published static plus every configured dynamic gRPC port;
• CMS-created tenant with ydbd admin database /local/<tenant> create hdd:1;
• dynamicNodeCount configured dynamic tenant nodes, started in index order; before the next node starts, the exact container must be running, not restarting, stable by Docker ID and RestartCount across two checks, and registered by its IC port.

Use it only when the caller needs /local/<tenant>, GraphShard, tenant storage workflows, tenant dump/restore, or dynamic-node behavior.

local_ydb_start_dynamic_node remains a primary-only recovery tool. It applies the same topology validation before returning or executing a plan, so a primary name cannot alias the static container and its ports cannot collide with static or configured listeners, including static IC port 19001. Declarative reconciliation of all configured nodes belongs to tenant bootstrap and restart.

local_ydb_add_dynamic_nodes adds one-off runtime nodes without requiring separate profile entries. By default it starts at index dynamicNodeCount + 1; an explicit startIndex must also be greater than dynamicNodeCount, while port overrides keep their existing meaning. These nodes are not part of the declarative count. The tool starts nodes one at a time and applies the same exact-container stability plus viewer/json/nodelist IC registration check before continuing. Tenant bootstrap always recreates configured dynamic containers from the current profile, including an already-running suffix with stale ports or mounts.

local_ydb_restart_stack inventories the stack, then checks the existing static container against the full profile before planning or executing any stop/remove/start command. The check covers image reference and ID, network, data mount, environment, restart policy, healthcheck, and the exact loopback bindings for static gRPC, monitoring, and every configured dynamic gRPC port. A mismatch returns immediately without changing configured or one-off container state; immutable binding changes require destroy followed by a fresh tenant bootstrap. After a successful preflight, restart reports missing configured containers and suffix containers above dynamicNodeCount that are unexpected runtime extras. It unconditionally recreates every configured node from the current profile in index order, including a container observed in Docker's restarting state, and requires both stable exact-container state and IC registration; a matching nodelist port alone is insufficient. Unexpected containers are never removed: previously running ones are stopped and restarted with the same container identity after configured nodes, while previously stopped ones remain stopped. If a later base command, configured-node command, readiness check, or unexpected-node recovery fails, restart still attempts every previously-running unexpected container and preserves the original failure before recovery results. Because inventory does not retain a removed configured container definition, rollback uses local_ydb_restart_stack or local_ydb_bootstrap reconciliation rather than claiming that inventory can restart the old definition. Removing a configured suffix explicitly therefore creates runtime drift that the next compatible restart or tenant bootstrap restores.

local_ydb_remove_dynamic_nodes protects the primary dynamic container. Without containers, nodeIds, or an explicit startIndex, it considers only one-off suffixes starting at dynamicNodeCount + 1 and removes the highest index first; if none exist, it fails with found 0 and returns no destructive plan. Explicit containers or node IDs default their lower bound to suffix 2, and an explicit startIndex overrides either default, so configured suffixes can be selected deliberately. Removing a configured suffix creates drift and returns bootstrap/restart rollback guidance; removing a one-off node returns add rollback guidance with matching suffixes and ports. Confirmed removal verifies the resolved IC port disappears from viewer/json/nodelist.

local_ydb_add_storage_groups rereads the current tenant storage pool definition with ReadStoragePool, resubmits that exact pool through DefineStoragePool, and increases NumGroups by the requested count. It is intended for live pool expansion on the current PDisk layout, not for adding new physical disks.

local_ydb_reduce_storage_groups does not attempt an in-place NumGroups shrink. Before dump or destroy, it inspects every one-off suffix above dynamicNodeCount and records the exact gRPC, monitoring, and IC ports from its container command; an absent or incomplete definition aborts the rebuild. It then preserves the tenant with ydb tools dump, tears down the profile stack, bootstraps a fresh stack with a smaller storagePoolCount, restores the dump, and reapplies auth when the selected profile uses auth artifacts. Bootstrap recreates the declarative topology; one-off nodes are restored separately with their recorded ports. Final verification covers the static container, every configured dynamic container, and restored one-off containers and IC ports.

local_ydb_upgrade_version does not reuse an existing local-ydb data volume in place across versions. It requires a file-backed config path so it can persist profiles.<name>.image to the target tag. Before dump or destroy, it inspects every one-off suffix above dynamicNodeCount and records its exact gRPC, monitoring, and IC ports; an absent or incomplete definition aborts the rebuild. It then verifies that the source and target images are already present on the target host, dumps the tenant, tears down the profile stack, bootstraps the complete declarative topology with the requested tag, restores the dump, reapplies auth to every configured node when needed, and re-adds one-off suffixes with their recorded ports. A successful final inventory verifies the static, configured dynamic, and restored one-off containers before updating the profile; a real image mismatch leaves the profile unchanged. If final inventory becomes unavailable only after all rebuild phases have succeeded, the tool returns the full command history with a safe failed verification result, omits imageVerification, and still persists the target profile image so later operations address the rebuilt target. Bind-mounted data profiles are not supported by this automatic upgrade path because the tool cannot guarantee an empty rebuild target. If an image is missing, run local_ydb_pull_image and poll local_ydb_pull_status before retrying.

local_ydb_apply_auth_hardening first runs the full check-only static profile and configured-binding compatibility preflight before copying config or stopping, restarting, removing, or recreating any container. An immutable mismatch requires destroy followed by bootstrap and leaves the current stack untouched. After the preflight succeeds, auth hardening stops and recreates every configured dynamic node in index order after the static-node config change, even when the profile has no dynamicNodeAuthTokenFile. A missing configured container is therefore restored. Each recreated node must pass the same exact-container stability and IC registration check—authenticated when credentials are configured, anonymous otherwise—before tenant metadata verification runs. If the static config is restored during rollback, use local_ydb_restart_stack or local_ydb_bootstrap to recreate configured nodes; their removed definitions are not recoverable through docker start.

local_ydb_set_root_password rotates the runtime root password with ALTER USER, then updates the configured host-side config.auth.yaml and root.password files to match. The password value is redacted from the planned command text.

Upstream YDB defaults to no password complexity requirements: even an empty password is accepted unless the cluster config defines auth_config.password_complexity. This toolkit's password-rotation tool still requires a non-empty password argument, and the selected YDB deployment may reject values that violate its configured policy. Official YDB docs describe the built-in special-character set as !@#$%^&*()_+{}|<>?=.

local_ydb_destroy_stack tears down a profile end to end: it removes tenant metadata when the static node is reachable, removes extra and primary dynamic nodes, removes the static node, removes the Docker network, and removes the Docker volume for volume-backed profiles. Deleting bind-mounted data, auth artifacts, and dump directories is opt-in through explicit flags because those host paths may be shared.

Publishing

Agent Plugin package

The repo marketplace loads the full Agent Plugin from the repository root. plugin.json and mcp.json are the portable Agent Plugins 1.0 entry points; .codex-plugin/plugin.json and .mcp.json preserve compatibility with Codex clients that use the earlier layout. Contract tests keep both representations aligned.

The launcher uses --prefix=./.codex-plugin to resolve the published npm package outside the repository workspace while preserving the server working directory and npm registry settings. Keep this metadata directory present and free of package.json, lockfiles, and node_modules; otherwise npm could select an unbuilt workspace or another executable from PATH.

The plugin version is independent from the MCP npm package version. Plugin 0.1.8 pins @astandrik/[email protected]. Update that pin only in a follow-up change after the exact npm version has been published and read back successfully; do not make release-please point the plugin at an unpublished version.

Build the OpenAI skills-only review artifact with:

npm run plugin:package

This writes dist/local-ydb-toolkit-0.1.8-skills.zip. The generated compatibility manifest omits mcpServers, and the ZIP excludes both MCP config files. Submission copy, reviewer cases, and external approval gates are recorded in docs/openai-plugin-submission.md. Building the artifact does not authorize uploading or publishing it.

MCP npm package

The unofficial MCP npm package @astandrik/local-ydb-mcp is released by release-please and published by .github/workflows/publish-mcp-server.yml. It uses npm trusted publishing through GitHub Actions OIDC, so the repository does not need a long-lived NPM_TOKEN secret.

The official MCP Registry name is io.github.astandrik/local-ydb-mcp. Publish server.json only after the matching npm package version has been published with the same mcpName in packages/mcp-server/package.json.

Configure the npm package trusted publisher with:

• package: @astandrik/local-ydb-mcp
• organization or user: astandrik
• repository: local-ydb-toolkit
• workflow filename: publish-mcp-server.yml

Normal release flow:

1. Merge conventional commits that touch packages/core or packages/mcp-server into main, for example feat: add ... or fix: repair ....
2. release-please opens or updates a release PR that bumps packages/mcp-server/package.json, updates package-lock.json and server.json, updates packages/mcp-server/.release-please-version, updates the release manifest, and writes packages/mcp-server/CHANGELOG.md.
3. Review and merge the release PR.
4. The same workflow creates the GitHub release, publishes and readbacks the matching npm version when it is missing, validates server.json with the pinned official mcp-publisher, and then publishes and readbacks the exact version from the official MCP Registry.
5. After those readbacks succeed, one post-release job checks out main, validates the release tag and stable version, applies the deterministic plugin pin updater, and verifies the updated pin against server.json, npm latest, and the exact MCP Registry record. Dependency-free focused contracts run before the final peter-evans/create-pull-request action, pinned to an immutable commit, updates codex/update-plugin-mcp-pin-v<version> and opens a draft PR titled chore(plugin): pin published MCP <version>. The draft includes the exact Registry/npm identities and a manual Cursor Directory checklist; it never merges or edits Cursor automatically.

Publication is idempotent across partial failures. Before either publish action, the workflow checks the exact immutable version. If npm already contains the matching package, it skips the npm publish step. If that npm version exists but the Registry step did not complete, run the workflow manually from main with dry_run: false and the existing publish_tag; the recovery run accepts only a published, non-prerelease GitHub release tag whose commit is contained in main, publishes only the missing MCP Registry record, verifies the final metadata, and routes the recovered version through the same post-release plugin proposal job. A Registry version that already exists with different metadata is never overwritten: correct server.json and release a new patch version instead. The PR action provides the proposal lifecycle: no diff is a successful no-op, an open proposal PR is updated, and a proposal that becomes unnecessary may be closed.

To run a non-publishing package check from GitHub Actions, start the workflow manually with dry_run: true. The dry run executes build, tests, typecheck, npm package inspection, and mcp-publisher validate, but does not log in or publish to npm or the MCP Registry.

Release Please and final post-release plugin PR creation use the existing fine-grained RELEASE_PLEASE_TOKEN with repository contents and pull request write access. Release Please receives it only as the action's token input so its generated pull request can trigger the required checks. The post-release job does not install dependencies; it runs only the checked-in dependency-free updater, freshness checker, and focused Node contracts before disabling Git hooks. The PAT is exposed only as the pinned PR action's token input, never to shell or environment steps, and neither credential path falls back to github.token.

Branch protection is configured outside the repository files. The intended main rule is:

• require a pull request before merging;
• apply the rule to administrators so direct pushes cannot bypass the pull request path;
• require strict build-test-typecheck, mcp-integration, smoke, and CodeQL status checks;
• require all review conversations to be resolved;
• disallow force pushes and branch deletion.

This is a solo-maintainer repository, so the rule requires zero approving reviews and does not require code-owner or last-push approval. Repository Actions default to read-only permissions and jobs declare narrower write permissions only where needed.