sysknife-cli-0.2.16 is not a library.

sysknife-cli

Your sysadmin co-pilot. Plan. Approve. Audit.

sysknife-cli installs the sysknife binary — an approval-gated AI system administration CLI and MCP server. The AI never runs a shell command: it emits typed actions with formal risk levels, a privileged daemon executes only what you approve, and every action is written to a tamper-evident, Ed25519-signed hash-chain audit trail with automatic rollback on atomic hosts.

Part of SysKnife, the MIT reference implementation of the LACS (Linux Agent Control Standard) protocol.

Install

This crate is half of SysKnife. It installs the sysknife binary: the CLI, the planner, and the stdio MCP server. Executing anything also needs sysknife-daemon, a privileged systemd service, because the CLI never performs privileged work itself. Planning and --dry-run work without it.

From source

A C compiler and linker are required (the TLS and SQLite dependencies build native code). On a machine with only rustup, the build fails at error: linker cc not found.

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential   # Debian/Ubuntu
cargo install sysknife-cli

Expect 7 to 12 minutes: it compiles around 400 crates. Measured on stock Ubuntu containers, 6m56s on 24.04 and 11m43s on 22.04. cmake is not required.

Prebuilt, and the daemon too

Faster, and it installs both halves plus your MCP client config:

npx sysknife-setup            # needs Node 18+

The wizard downloads SHA-256-verified binaries from the release page, so there is no compile and no toolchain. On Ubuntu 22.04 note that apt install nodejs gives Node 12, which is too old.

Use

# Standalone CLI (plan → approve → execute):
sysknife "show disk usage and list services that ate cpu in the last hour"

# Stdio MCP server, for Claude Code / Cursor / Codex CLI:
sysknife mcp-server

npx sysknife-setup wires the MCP server into your AI IDE and installs the privileged daemon for you. The server exposes sysknife_plan, sysknife_execute, sysknife_history, sysknife_doctor, and sysknife_audit_verify as MCP tools.

sysknife-cli 0.2.16

sysknife-cli

Install

From source

Prebuilt, and the daemon too

Use

Links