Sys Knife MCP Server

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People who work with agentic ai, audit log and automation and want it reachable from Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in Rust.

VERIFIED ACTIVE

LAST COMMIT 2026-09-30 · ★ 14 · #209 OF 241 MAINTAINED AUTOMATION · VERIFIED 2026-09-30

MIT · Rust servers · how we verify → /methodology

01 · Evidence

Security posture

What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.

license MIT - declared in the repository

registry namespace io.github.lacs-project is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner

02 · What Sys Knife can do

Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.

Latest releases

v0.24.0 · 2026-09-29

derive action reference footer counts

v0.23.0 · 2026-09-28

stop telling contributors to run the pre-commit framework · screen prefixed rehearsal tool calls · cover time-and-locale actions with stories 141-143 · make the testing guide's provisioning default match provision.sh…

v0.22.0 · 2026-09-23

pin explicit toolchain input on both Rust setup steps · Make syslog enterprise_number configurable (fixes #218) · align Security Model wording with sudoers and pin the claim · validate cassette hash environment before…

03 · Who maintains Sys Knife

SysKnife is maintained by lacs-project. It's the only MCP server we track from this author; the repo dates to Jun 2026.

04 · Facts

repository
github.com/lacs-project/sysknife
website
https://lacs-project.github.io/sysknife/
category
automation - ranked #209 of 241 actively-maintained automation servers as of 2026-09-30.
release cadence
10+ releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-09-29)
registry
io.github.lacs-project/sysknife (active, first published 2026-07-28 · 28 versions)
packages
cargo:sysknife-cli

05 · Sys Knife FAQ

What is Sys Knife?

The Linux sysadmin MCP server. Plan. Approve. Audit. Distros MCP server · How it works · Why not X ? · Distro matrix · Roadmap · Contribute · Discuss

Is Sys Knife still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-09-30, its last commit was 2026-09-30 and it shipped 10+ releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

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