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Reviewing #471 / #472 and surprised that there is no olm toolset.
So I cobbled together a basic one which works both for OLMv0 and OLMv1 in a strictly read-only capacity, providing list/status/health indications for diagnostics.
Follow-ons could provide more sophisticated interactions involving permissions, "stuck" installation demystifying, and remediative actions.

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  • New Features

    • Added a read-only OpenShift Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) toolset.
    • Added inspection tools for OLMv0 operators, OLMv1 cluster extensions, catalogs, subscriptions, installation status, and diagnostics.
    • Added diagnostic reporting for related workloads, pods, warning events, and installation conditions.
    • Tools adapt to the OLM APIs available on the target cluster and support optional version and namespace selection.
  • Documentation

    • Documented the new openshift/olm toolset and its inspection and diagnostic capabilities.

Signed-off-by: grokspawn <jordan@nimblewidget.com>
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Adds the openshift/olm toolset with eight read-only tools for OLMv0 and OLMv1 resource inspection, status, catalogs, and diagnostics. The change adds compatibility filtering, improved diagnostic records, registration, documentation, and tests.

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OLM inspection toolset

Layer / File(s) Summary
Toolset contracts and registration
pkg/toolsets/olm/toolset.go, pkg/mcp/openshift_modules.go, README.md, docs/configuration.md
Defines OLMv0 and OLMv1 resource identifiers, registers the openshift/olm toolset, applies compatibility filtering, and documents the available tools.
Inspection tools and diagnostics
pkg/toolsets/olm/tools.go
Adds four read-only tools. Updates status support, removes spec.bundleImage, records workload errors, and matches OLM events by involvedObject metadata.
Toolset validation
pkg/toolsets/olm/tools_test.go
Tests tool metadata, compatibility filtering, summaries, version validation, and listing across both API generations.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MCPClient
  participant OLMTool
  participant DynamicClient
  participant DiagnosticResources
  MCPClient->>OLMTool: submit inspection parameters
  OLMTool->>DynamicClient: list or fetch OLM resources
  DynamicClient-->>OLMTool: return resources or errors
  OLMTool->>DiagnosticResources: collect workloads and events
  DiagnosticResources-->>OLMTool: return diagnostic records
  OLMTool-->>MCPClient: return structured summaries
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 988b0

Several OLM diagnostics can currently return non-functional or misleading results, and some valid tool calls may fail because required inputs are not declared. These correctness issues should be resolved before merge.

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In `@pkg/toolsets/olm/tools.go`:
- Line 224: Update the event summarization in the diagnostic result so Warning
Events retain their reason, message, and involved-object details instead of
using the generic summarize path. Add an event-specific summary helper or
equivalent handling, and test olm_diagnose with a Warning Event to verify those
diagnostic fields are included.
- Around line 207-208: Update the workload-list error handling in
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Report failed diagnostic reads.

Both paths discard Kubernetes read errors. A caller cannot distinguish an empty diagnostic result from missing RBAC access or another failed read.

  • pkg/toolsets/olm/tools.go#L207-L208: append an errorSummary for non-NotFound workload-list errors.
  • pkg/toolsets/olm/tools.go#L220-L221: append an errorSummary for non-NotFound Event-list errors.
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Thanks for opening this @grokspawn - will review today

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Thanks for getting a OLM toolset started here @grokspawn !

One thing I'm wondering is could you maybe add some evals that show the need for the tools you added? I'd imagine most models could cover those use cases with the resources_* tools in the core toolset (unless maybe I'm missing something) - we historically have found value in tools for domains that go beyond just CRUD against that domain. That is also why the table in the README highlights which projects this server supports from eval labels rather than just toolsets, so that we can highlight that better 😄

If it helps, we have a toolset-design skill in this repo, when I ran it against this PR it had these tooling suggestions. I am not a OLM expert, but maybe these can serve as some inspiration for you?

Strong Tool Candidates

  • olm_catalog_query: Search packages, channels, bundles, versions, and deprecation metadata across OLMv0 CatalogSources and OLMv1 ClusterCatalog/FBC content. Generic resource tools cannot meaningfully inspect catalog database/content.
  • olm_upgrade_path: Calculate the valid upgrade path from the installed CSV/version using channels, replaces, skips, skipRange, and version constraints.
  • olm_resolution_explain: Explain why dependency resolution succeeded or failed, correlating Subscription, InstallPlan, CSV requirements, provided APIs, OperatorGroups, and catalog availability.
  • olm_installation_inspect: Follow the complete installation chain:
    Subscription -> InstallPlan -> CSV -> owned resources -> deployments/webhooks/APIServices.
    This provides substantial post-processing beyond generic CRUD.
  • olm_dependencies: Show required/provided APIs and identify missing or conflicting providers across installed operators and catalogs.

These could potentially be consolidated into one read-only tool with an operation enum.

Better As Prompts

  • “Why is operator X stuck installing?”
  • “Assess OLM health in this namespace.”
  • “Investigate why an operator upgrade failed.”
    A diagnostic prompt should gather the relevant resources, catalog data, workloads, events, RBAC, webhooks, and APIService health, then inject that data with OLM-specific analysis instructions.

Signed-off-by: grokspawn <jordan@nimblewidget.com>

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- Around line 50-51: Remove the unsupported spec.bundleImage schema entry and
its corresponding summarize lookup in the toolset definition. Keep only fields
defined by the OLM v1 ClusterObjectSet API, unless replacing it with an existing
API-defined bundle field is necessary.
- Around line 252-258: Update appendEventDiagnostics to classify Events using
involvedObject.apiVersion and involvedObject.kind for the supported OLM
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This is destined for upstream instead, but I'm using it to shape/iterate from a local model setup in situ.

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In `@pkg/toolsets/olm/tools.go`:
- Around line 45-51: Update the inputSchema definitions for each affected tool
to mark every handler-required parameter as required: package, namespace, name,
or catalog as applicable. Apply this consistently to the tool schemas near the
shown properties and the other affected schema blocks, while leaving optional
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- Line 32: Do not register the placeholder tools returned by
newDiagnoseInstallationTool, newAssessNamespaceTool, newAnalyzeConditionTool,
and newCatalogInspectTool while their handlers only return successful “Would
...” messages; either implement each handler’s described Kubernetes diagnostics
before registration or remove all four registrations until they are functional.
- Around line 420-422: Update the diagnostic record’s involvedObject name and
namespace fields to read from event.Object rather than event.GetName() and
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func tools(p api.FilteringProvider) []api.ServerTool {
return []api.ServerTool{
newListTool(p), newStatusTool(p), newCatalogsTool(p), newDiagnoseTool(p),
newDiagnoseInstallationTool(p), newAssessNamespaceTool(p), newAnalyzeConditionTool(p), newCatalogInspectTool(p),

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not register placeholder tools as implemented capabilities.

All four handlers return a successful "Would ..." message. They do not query Kubernetes or produce the diagnostics described by their tool descriptions.

Implement these handlers before registration. Otherwise, remove the registrations until the implementations are ready.

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In `@pkg/toolsets/olm/tools.go` at line 32, Do not register the placeholder tools
returned by newDiagnoseInstallationTool, newAssessNamespaceTool,
newAnalyzeConditionTool, and newCatalogInspectTool while their handlers only
return successful “Would ...” messages; either implement each handler’s
described Kubernetes diagnostics before registration or remove all four
registrations until they are functional.

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Comment thread pkg/toolsets/olm/tools.go
Comment on lines +45 to +51
InputSchema: inputSchema(map[string]*jsonschema.Schema{
"package": {Type: "string", Description: "Package name"},
"version": {Type: "string"},
"channel": {Type: "string"},
"catalog": {Type: "string"},
"namespace": {Type: "string"},
}),

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Declare each handler-required parameter in its input schema.

The schemas mark every property as optional, but the handlers reject requests without package, namespace, name, or catalog. This contract causes clients to construct requests that fail validation inside the handler.

Pass the required property to inputSchema for each tool.

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-			InputSchema: inputSchema(map[string]*jsonschema.Schema{
+			InputSchema: inputSchema(map[string]*jsonschema.Schema{
 				"package":   {Type: "string", Description: "Package name"},
 				"version":   {Type: "string"},
 				"channel":   {Type: "string"},
 				"catalog":   {Type: "string"},
 				"namespace": {Type: "string"},
-			}),
+			}, "package"),

Apply the same change with "namespace", "name", and "catalog" to the other tools.

Also applies to: 83-85, 116-120, 151-155

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In `@pkg/toolsets/olm/tools.go` around lines 45 - 51, Update the inputSchema
definitions for each affected tool to mark every handler-required parameter as
required: package, namespace, name, or catalog as applicable. Apply this
consistently to the tool schemas near the shown properties and the other
affected schema blocks, while leaving optional parameters unchanged.

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"name": event.GetName(),
"apiVersion": apiVersion,
"namespace": event.GetNamespace(),

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use the referenced resource identity for involvedObject.

These fields currently contain the Event name and namespace. They do not identify the OLM resource that caused the Event. This produces incorrect diagnostic records and prevents reliable correlation.

Read involvedObject.name and involvedObject.namespace from event.Object.

Proposed fix
+		involvedName, _, _ := unstructured.NestedString(event.Object, "involvedObject", "name")
+		involvedNamespace, _, _ := unstructured.NestedString(event.Object, "involvedObject", "namespace")
 		"involvedObject": map[string]any{
 			"kind":       kind,
-			"name":       event.GetName(),
+			"name":       involvedName,
 			"apiVersion": apiVersion,
-			"namespace":  event.GetNamespace(),
+			"namespace":  involvedNamespace,
 		},
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"name": event.GetName(),
"apiVersion": apiVersion,
"namespace": event.GetNamespace(),
involvedName, _, _ := unstructured.NestedString(event.Object, "involvedObject", "name")
involvedNamespace, _, _ := unstructured.NestedString(event.Object, "involvedObject", "namespace")
"involvedObject": map[string]any{
"kind": kind,
"name": involvedName,
"apiVersion": apiVersion,
"namespace": involvedNamespace,
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