chronista-club/vantage-mcp

Vantage MCP

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Process as a Resource - Manage processes as resources

A powerful process management server for Claude Code via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

✨ Features

Core Features

• 🚀 Process Management: Control start, stop, and monitoring of any process via MCP tools
• 📊 Real-time Logging: Capture and stream stdout/stderr outputs
• 🔍 Status Monitoring: Track process states and metrics
• 🎯 Flexible Filtering: Search processes by state or pattern
• 💾 Persistence: Configuration management in KDL format (.vantage/processes.kdl)
• 🔄 Auto-start: Automatic process startup with auto_start flag

Web Dashboard

• 🌐 Modern UI: Sophisticated SPA with Vue 3 + TypeScript + Tabler
• 📈 Real-time Updates: Monitor process states with auto-refresh
• 🔍 Search Features: Process search and filtering
• 🌙 Dark Mode: Light/dark theme switching
• 📱 Responsive: Mobile to desktop support
• 🎯 Type Safety: Complete typing with TypeScript
• 📦 Component-Oriented: Vue 3 SFC (Single File Component) architecture

MCP Integration

• 🔌 MCP Compliant Server: Fully compliant with Model Context Protocol
• 🤖 Claude Code Ready: Direct integration with Claude Code
• 🛠️ Rich Tools: 12+ MCP tools provided
• 📡 Web API: RESTful API for external integration

🚀 Installation

Using Cargo (Recommended)

# Install from GitHub repository
cargo install --git https://github.com/chronista-club/vantage-mcp --tag v0.2.0

# Or install latest from main branch
cargo install --git https://github.com/chronista-club/vantage-mcp

From Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/chronista-club/vantage-mcp
cd vantage-mcp

# Release build
cargo build --release

# Binary will be at:
# target/release/vantage

Configuration

Claude Code Configuration

Add the server to your .mcp.json or Claude Code settings:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "vantage": {
            "type": "stdio",
            "command": "vantage",
            "env": {
                "RUST_LOG": "info",
                "VANTAGE_AUTO_EXPORT_INTERVAL": "300"
            }
        }
    }
}

Verify Connection

In Claude Code, run:

/mcp

You should see "vantage" server as "connected".

Usage

Available Tools

Basic Tools

• echo - Echo back messages for testing
• ping - Simple health check
• get_status - Get server status and uptime

Process Management

• create_process - Register a new process configuration
• start_process - Start a registered process
• stop_process - Stop a running process gracefully
• get_process_status - Get detailed process status
• get_process_output - Retrieve process stdout/stderr logs
• list_processes - List all managed processes with filters
• remove_process - Remove a process from management
• export_processes - Export all processes to a YAML file
• import_processes - Import processes from a YAML file

Examples

Managing a Web Server

# Register a web server process
create_process(
    id="webserver",
    command="python",
    args=["-m", "http.server", "8000"],
    env={"PYTHONUNBUFFERED": "1"},
    cwd="./public"
)

# Start the server
start_process(id="webserver")

# Check the logs
get_process_output(id="webserver", stream="Both", lines=50)

# Stop gracefully
stop_process(id="webserver", grace_period_ms=5000)

Running a Database

# Start PostgreSQL
create_process(
    id="postgres",
    command="postgres",
    args=["-D", "/usr/local/var/postgres"],
    env={"PGDATA": "/usr/local/var/postgres"}
)

start_process(id="postgres")

# Monitor status
get_process_status(id="postgres")

Batch Process Management

# List all running processes
list_processes(filter={"state": "Running"})

# Find specific processes by pattern
list_processes(filter={"name_pattern": "worker"})

# Stop all workers
for process in list_processes(filter={"name_pattern": "worker"}):
    stop_process(id=process["id"])

API Reference

Process States

• NotStarted - Process registered but not yet started
• Running - Process is currently running with PID
• Stopped - Process terminated normally with exit code
• Failed - Process failed with error message

Output Streams

• Stdout - Standard output only
• Stderr - Standard error only
• Both - Combined stdout and stderr

Process Filters

• state - Filter by process state (Running/Stopped/Failed/All)
• name_pattern - Filter by ID pattern (supports wildcards)

📝 Persistence

KDL Configuration Files

Vantage MCP uses KDL (Cuddly Data Language) format for process persistence. Configuration files are automatically saved to .vantage/processes.kdl.

Example KDL Configuration

// Vantage MCP Process Configuration
meta {
    version "1.0.0"
}

// Web server process
process "webserver" {
    command "python"
    args "-m" "http.server" "8000"
    cwd "/path/to/public"
    auto_start #false
}

// Background worker
process "worker" {
    command "/usr/local/bin/worker"
    args "--config" "worker.conf"
    cwd "/app"
    auto_start #true  // Auto-start on server launch
}

Configuration Fields

YAML Export/Import

Process configurations can be exported/imported in YAML format for backup and migration:

# Export processes to YAML file
curl http://127.0.0.1:12700/api/export > vantage_export.yaml

# Import processes from YAML file
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:12700/api/import \
  -H "Content-Type: application/yaml" \
  -d @vantage_export.yaml

🌐 Web Dashboard

Starting the Dashboard

# Start server (Web dashboard automatically enabled on port 12700)
vantagemcp

# Don't open browser automatically
vantagemcp --no-open

The web dashboard will be available at http://localhost:12700 (or another port if 12700 is in use)

Dashboard Features

Main Screen

• Stats Cards: Display total processes, running, stopped, and error states
• Process List: Table view of all processes
• Real-time Updates: Auto-refresh every 5 seconds
• Search: Search by process ID or command

Process Operations

• Start/Stop: One-click process control
• Log Viewing: Display latest stdout/stderr logs
• Delete: Remove unwanted processes
• Add New: Modal dialog for process creation

UI/UX

• Responsive Design: Mobile-friendly
• Dark Mode: Light/dark theme switching
• Modern Design: Tabler UI framework

REST API

Development

Building from Source

# Debug build
cargo build

# Release build
cargo build --release

# Run tests
cargo test

# Run with debug logging
RUST_LOG=debug cargo run

Project Structure

vantage-mcp/
├── crates/
│   ├── vantage/                 # Main server crate
│   │   ├── src/
│   │   │   ├── lib.rs          # Core server implementation
│   │   │   ├── bin/
│   │   │   │   └── vantage_server.rs  # Binary entry point
│   │   │   ├── process/        # Process management
│   │   │   │   ├── mod.rs
│   │   │   │   ├── manager.rs
│   │   │   │   ├── buffer.rs
│   │   │   │   └── protocol.rs
│   │   │   ├── web/            # Web server
│   │   │   │   ├── server.rs
│   │   │   │   ├── handlers.rs
│   │   │   │   └── api.rs
│   │   │   ├── messages/       # MCP message types
│   │   │   ├── ci/             # CI/CD monitoring
│   │   │   └── events/         # Event system
│   │   └── tests/
│   └── vantage-persistence/     # Persistence layer
│       ├── src/
│       │   ├── lib.rs          # Persistence interface
│       │   ├── kdl/            # KDL format persistence
│       │   ├── persistence/    # In-memory storage implementation
│       │   └── yaml/           # YAML snapshot export/import
│       └── tests/
├── ui/
│   └── web/                    # Vue 3 SPA
│       ├── src/
│       │   ├── App.vue         # Root component
│       │   ├── main.ts         # Entry point
│       │   ├── router/         # Vue Router config
│       │   ├── stores/         # Pinia stores
│       │   ├── components/     # Vue components
│       │   ├── views/          # Page components
│       │   ├── api/            # API client
│       │   ├── types/          # TypeScript types
│       │   └── themes.ts       # Theme configuration
│       ├── package.json
│       ├── tsconfig.json
│       └── vite.config.ts
│       ├── dist/               # Production build
├── .vantage/                    # Data directory
│   └── processes.kdl           # Process config file
└── examples/                   # Usage examples

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

This project is dual-licensed under either of:

• Apache License, Version 2.0 ( or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license ( or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

🔑 Environment Variables

🙏 Acknowledgments

• rmcp - Rust MCP SDK
• Tera - Template engine
• UI framework: Vue 3 + TypeScript + Vite + Tabler
• KDL - Configuration format
• Inspired by the Model Context Protocol specification
• Part of the Chronista Club ecosystem

Support

For issues, questions, or suggestions:

• Open an issue on GitHub
• Check the documentation

Vantage MCP - Making process management simple and powerful for Claude Code