Akamai Cloud Server

CI PyPI License: Apache-2.0 Python 3.11+

A read-only Model Context Protocol server for Akamai Cloud (Linode). Point any MCP client or agent at it, give it a read-only-scoped Linode token, and ask plain-language questions about your account: what you run, what a stack would cost, where GPUs are in stock, and which account limits apply.

It is one curated server, not a fleet of per-service servers: Akamai Cloud is a single cohesive API, so the tools live in one server with domain modules inside.

Features

• Inventory - list compute instances, block-storage volumes, LKE clusters, Object Storage buckets, firewalls, IPs, VLANs, VPCs, and NodeBalancers, with the details that matter (region, type, status, attachments) and nothing that leaks.
• Pricing and cost estimates - live per-type pricing with the correct region-override fallback, GPU and accelerated-plan availability by region, and full-stack monthly estimates that itemize every line and label its source.
• Account and limits - account details, network transfer, invoices, the event log, and a composed account-limits summary. Payment and PII fields are redacted on every return.
• Read-only by construction - a GET-only client, allowlist serialization, and a recursive secret scrub. Enforced by a static scan and a runtime HTTP-verb guard, not just convention.
• Curated, low-context surface - 37 tools tuned for tool selection, plus one read-only escape hatch (linode_api_get) for the long tail. No tool-per-endpoint sprawl. Load only the domains you need with --domains.
• Dual transport - stdio for local clients, auth-gated streamable-http for hosted deployments.

Prerequisites

1. Account. Create an Akamai Cloud account with an API token (includes a $300 credit).
2. Install uv (it provides uvx, used to run the server). pipx works too.
3. Python 3.11 or newer.
4. A Linode personal access token with read-only scopes (see Token setup). Pricing and catalog tools work without a token; account-scoped tools require one.

Installation

Run straight from PyPI with no install step:

uvx akamai-cloud-mcp --help

Or install it onto your PATH:

pipx install akamai-cloud-mcp

Client configuration

Add the server to your MCP client and pass your token in the env block. Anything after the package name in args is passed to the server, so this is where you scope domains, cap results, or change transport. See Arguments for the full list.

Claude Desktop

Open Settings -> Developer -> Edit Config and add the server to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "akamai-cloud": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["akamai-cloud-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "LINODE_TOKEN": "<your-read-only-linode-token>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

Add it with one command:

claude mcp add akamai-cloud --env LINODE_TOKEN=<your-read-only-linode-token> -- uvx akamai-cloud-mcp

Or commit a project-scoped .mcp.json so your agents share the same config. This example loads only the compute, pricing, and regions domains and raises the result cap:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "akamai-cloud": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "akamai-cloud-mcp",
        "--domains", "compute,pricing,regions",
        "--max-results", "100"
      ],
      "env": {
        "LINODE_TOKEN": "<your-read-only-linode-token>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

Add the server to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global) or .cursor/mcp.json (per project). This example narrows the surface to inventory and cost tools:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "akamai-cloud": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "akamai-cloud-mcp",
        "--domains", "compute,pricing"
      ],
      "env": {
        "LINODE_TOKEN": "<your-read-only-linode-token>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Any MCP client that launches a command works the same way: command is uvx, args starts with akamai-cloud-mcp, and the token goes in env.

Arguments

Pass these after akamai-cloud-mcp in args (CLI flags override environment variables).

Argument	Environment variable	Default	Description
--domains <list|all>	AKAMAI_MCP_DOMAINS	all	Comma-separated domains to load. Choices: regions, pricing, compute, lke, object_storage, networking, account, dns, databases, escape.
--max-results <int>	AKAMAI_MCP_MAX_RESULTS	50	Cap on rows returned by list_* tools, so a tool never floods model context.
--detail <concise|full>	AKAMAI_MCP_DETAIL	full	Deploy-wide default verbosity for inventory list_* tools. concise suits smaller models; the agent can still pass detail=full per call.
--transport <name>	AKAMAI_MCP_TRANSPORT	stdio	stdio, streamable-http, or http (alias for streamable-http).
--host <host>	AKAMAI_MCP_HOST	127.0.0.1	Bind host for the HTTP transport.
--port <int>	AKAMAI_MCP_PORT	8080	Bind port for the HTTP transport.
--path <path>	AKAMAI_MCP_PATH	/mcp	URL path for the HTTP transport.
--version	-	-	Print the version and exit.

Secrets are read from the environment, never from CLI flags:

Environment variable	Required	Description
LINODE_TOKEN	For account-scoped tools	Read-only-scoped Linode personal access token. LINODE_API_TOKEN is accepted as an alias.
AKAMAI_MCP_HTTP_AUTH_TOKEN	For HTTP transport	Bearer token that HTTP clients must present. The HTTP transport refuses to start without it.

Token setup

Create a Linode personal access token with read-only scopes and export it:

export LINODE_TOKEN="<your-read-only-linode-token>"

The default tool set spans several services, so grant all of these read-only scopes (this is the set the server recommends):

linodes:read_only, lke:read_only, object_storage:read_only, nodebalancers:read_only, firewall:read_only, vpc:read_only, ips:read_only, account:read_only, events:read_only.

If you load only a subset of domains with --domains, you only need the scopes for those services. The server never logs or echoes the token, and LINODE_API_TOKEN is accepted as an alias.

Usage

With the server configured, ask your client natural-language questions:

• "List my running Linodes and which region each is in."
• "What would 3x g6-standard-2 with backups, a 200 GB volume, and an HA LKE control plane cost per month in us-east?"
• "Where can I get an RTX GPU plan right now?"
• "Show my Object Storage buckets and this period's transfer usage."
• "What are my account limits?"

Tools

All tools are read-only and annotated readOnlyHint: true. Load a subset with --domains.

The inventory list_* tools take an optional detail parameter: "full" returns the whole row, "concise" returns only identity and routing fields (id, label, region, status, type) so an agent can scan a large list cheaply and then drill into one resource with the matching get_* tool. The default is "full"; set the deploy-wide default with --detail concise (good for smaller models), and the agent can still override per call.

regions

Tool	Signature	Description
linode_list_regions	()	Regions with capabilities, country, site type, and status.
linode_get_region_availability	(region?: str)	Which plans are in stock, account-wide or scoped to one region.
linode_list_instance_types	()	Plan types with vcpus, memory, disk, transfer, GPUs, class, and prices.

pricing

Tool	Signature	Description
linode_get_pricing	(family: str, region?: str)	Per-type pricing for a family (compute, block_storage, nodebalancers, network_transfer, lke, object_storage) with the correct region override applied.
linode_find_gpu_availability	(region?: str)	GPU and accelerated plans with price and the regions where each is in stock.
linode_estimate_cost	(request: EstimateRequest)	Itemized hourly and monthly cost of a described stack, each line labeled by source.

compute

Tool	Signature	Description
linode_list_instances	()	Compute instances with region, type, status, IPs, image, and specs.
linode_get_instance	(instance_id: int)	One instance by id.
linode_list_volumes	()	Block-storage volumes with size, region, status, and attachment.

lke

Tool	Signature	Description
linode_list_lke_clusters	()	LKE clusters with region, Kubernetes version, tier, and control-plane settings.
linode_get_lke_cluster	(cluster_id: int)	One cluster with node pools, API endpoints, and control-plane ACL. The kubeconfig is never returned.
linode_list_kubernetes_versions	()	Kubernetes versions available for new and upgraded clusters.

object_storage

Tool	Signature	Description
linode_list_object_storage_buckets	(region?: str)	Buckets with hostname, endpoint type, size, and object count. Keys are never returned.
linode_get_object_storage_bucket	(region: str, bucket: str)	One bucket's detail (hostname, S3 endpoint, size, object count). Keys are never returned.
linode_list_object_storage_endpoints	()	Endpoints (region, type, S3 hostname) available to the account.
linode_get_object_storage_transfer	()	Object Storage network transfer for the current billing period.
linode_list_object_storage_quotas	()	Object Storage quotas (the only quota API Linode exposes).

networking

Tool	Signature	Description
linode_list_firewalls	()	Cloud Firewalls with status and tags. Use linode_get_firewall for rules.
linode_get_firewall	(firewall_id: int)	One firewall with its inbound/outbound rules and attached resources.
linode_list_ips	()	IP addresses with type, region, reverse DNS, and assignment.
linode_list_vlans	()	VLANs with region, CIDR, and attached instances.
linode_list_vpcs	()	VPCs with region and description.
linode_get_vpc	(vpc_id: int)	One VPC with its subnets and the instances in each.
linode_list_nodebalancers	()	NodeBalancers with region, hostname, IPs, and transfer usage.

account (on by default)

Tool	Signature	Description
linode_get_account	()	Company, country, balance, capabilities. Payment and personal fields redacted.
linode_get_account_transfer	()	Network transfer for the current billing period, including per-region.
linode_list_invoices	()	Invoices with date, subtotal, tax, and total. Payment detail redacted.
linode_list_events	()	Recent account events (the audit log).
linode_get_account_limits	()	Composed account-limits summary (rate limits, Object Storage quotas, transfer pool).

Leave account out of --domains if you do not want account data in the model's context.

dns

Tool	Signature	Description
linode_list_domains	()	DNS domains (zones) with type, status, and SOA email.
linode_get_domain	(domain_id: int)	One zone with SOA timers, master/AXFR IPs, and tags.
linode_list_domain_records	(domain_id: int)	A/AAAA/NS/MX/CNAME/TXT/SRV/PTR/CAA records with name, target, and TTL.

databases

Tool	Signature	Description
linode_list_databases	()	Managed Database clusters (all engines) with engine, version, region, status, plan, and host. Credentials never returned.
linode_get_database	(engine: str, database_id: int)	One database by engine (mysql/postgresql) and id, with host, port, and maintenance window. Root password never returned.
linode_list_database_engines	()	Available database engines and versions.
linode_list_database_types	()	Managed Database plan types with vcpus, memory, disk, engines, and price.

escape

Tool	Signature	Description
linode_api_get	(path: str, params?: dict)	Read-only GET against any Linode API v4 path a curated tool does not cover, for example /images or /tags.

The escape hatch is defended in depth: only GET is allowed, the path is validated (relative v4 only, no absolute URL, no traversal), known secret-returning endpoints (kubeconfig, Object Storage keys, profile tokens, payment methods) are refused outright, and the response is scrubbed. It is why there is no tool-per-endpoint sprawl.

Worked example: linode_estimate_cost

linode_estimate_cost composes a stack from live prices plus the curated supplement. Given this request:

{
  "region": "us-east",
  "instances": [{"type": "g6-standard-1", "count": 1, "backups": true}],
  "volumes": [{"size_gb": 100, "count": 1}],
  "nodebalancers": 1,
  "lke_tier": "ha",
  "object_storage": {
    "storage_gb": 500,
    "class_a_requests": 2000000,
    "class_b_requests": 12500000,
    "egress_gb": 0
  }
}

it returns itemized lines, each labeled by source, with free allotments applied before overage:

Line	Source	Monthly
1x g6-standard-1	live API	10.00
backups for 1x g6-standard-1	live API	2.50
1x 100GB block storage	live API	10.00
1x NodeBalancer	live API	10.00
LKE ha control plane	live API	60.00
500GB stored (250GB included)	curated supplement	5.00
2,000,000 class A requests (1,000,000 free)	curated supplement	5.00
12,500,000 class B requests (12,500,000 free)	curated supplement	0.00

Total: 102.50/month. The class B requests sit exactly at the free quota, so they add nothing. LKE worker nodes are priced as their underlying instance types, so add them under instances. These figures match the golden-output test, so the example and the tool cannot drift apart.

Pricing notes

Pricing uses the public type and price endpoints, so catalog questions work even without a token. Two details the tools get right so you do not have to:

• Region price fallback. A type's top-level price is the default-region price; region_prices[] lists overrides for the few higher-cost regions (currently Jakarta and Sao Paulo). To price a region, the tool matches the region id in region_prices[] and falls back to the default when there is no override.
• Null monthly means metered. Metered SKUs (network transfer, Object Storage overage) report monthly as null, not 0. Null means priced per unit with no monthly cap. The tools never coerce null to 0.

Some costs are invisible to the API (Object Storage Class A/B request pricing, free-allotment thresholds, policy facts like no egress fees to Akamai CDN). Those live in a curated in-repo supplement, each entry carrying a source and a review date. linode_get_pricing for the object_storage family returns that supplement alongside the live storage price.

Context cost

Tool definitions count against your model's context window, so this server keeps that small on purpose. Approximate footprint (measured with a GPT tokenizer; Claude is within about 10 percent):

Domains loaded	Tools	Tokens (approx)
all (default)	37	~3,990
compute,lke,regions	9	~830
pricing	3	~765
databases	4	~360
dns	3	~350
compute	3	~290

Load a subset to shrink the footprint, for example --domains compute,pricing when you only need inventory and cost.

HTTP deployment

For a hosted deployment, run the streamable-http transport:

export LINODE_TOKEN="<your-read-only-linode-token>"
export AKAMAI_MCP_HTTP_AUTH_TOKEN="<a-bearer-token-clients-must-present>"
akamai-cloud-mcp --transport streamable-http --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080 --path /mcp

The server is served at /mcp/.

[!WARNING] The HTTP transport uses one shared server-side LINODE_TOKEN. Every authenticated caller queries the same Linode account. This is not a bring-your-own-token design - do not expose one account's data to a shared audience by accident. The transport refuses to start without AKAMAI_MCP_HTTP_AUTH_TOKEN (set AKAMAI_MCP_ALLOW_INSECURE_HTTP=1 to override, which is strongly discouraged). Always run it behind TLS.

Read-only and scrubbing guarantees

• Every tool is annotated readOnlyHint: true.
• The client issues GET only. A static scan and an HTTP-verb guard in the test suite fail the build if a mutating call is introduced.
• Curated tools return allowlist-serialized dicts - only known-safe fields leave the SDK - then run through a recursive scrub. Kubeconfigs, access and secret keys, tokens, and payment and PII fields do not reach the model on these paths.
• The escape hatch (linode_api_get) returns raw API objects passed through the scrub only, and refuses a denylist of known secret-returning endpoints. The scrub strips known secret material (kubeconfigs, keys, tokens), but a raw account endpoint can still surface account PII - keep the token read-only-scoped and prefer the curated account tools for account data.

See SECURITY.md for the full posture.

Development

uv sync
uv run akamai-cloud-mcp --help

Run the checks the way CI does:

uv run pytest -q       # mocked Linode API, zero live calls
uv run ruff check .
uv run mypy

CI runs ruff, mypy, and pytest on Python 3.11 and 3.12 (read-only enforcement is covered by the static scan and verb-guard tests, described under Read-only and scrubbing guarantees). A separate scheduled job (pricing-staleness.yml) flags price drift against scripts/pricing_baseline.json using the public type endpoints, so it needs no credentials.

To build and run the wheel locally:

uv build
uvx --from ./dist/akamai_cloud_mcp-*.whl akamai-cloud-mcp --help

Status

v0.1.0. v1 is read-only and ships no write or mutating operations. See CHANGELOG.md.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md. The bar is the CI gates above plus the read-only rule: no tool may issue a non-GET request.

License

Apache-2.0.