Haltproof MCP server

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HaltProof

Emergency-shutdown orchestration for Slurm, Kubernetes, and IPMI clusters, with an Ed25519-signed, hash-chained attestation record of exactly what ran.

Signed, dry-run-by-default shutdown orchestration for Slurm, Kubernetes, and IPMI clusters, with a tamper-evident audit trail.

HaltProof is an emergency-shutdown orchestration and cryptographic audit-proof layer for compute clusters. It does not implement a new low-level shutdown mechanism. It coordinates cluster primitives you already trust (Slurm, Kubernetes, IPMI/BMC) and produces a signed, tamper-evident record of exactly what was targeted, what ran, and who authorized it.

pip install haltproof-cli

(Full install options, including the npm wrapper, are in Install below.)

Why

Operators already have the tools to drain a Slurm partition, cordon a Kubernetes node pool, or power-fence a physical host over IPMI. What's usually missing is:

instead of three different command sets under pressure.

1. One consistent interface across those tools during an incident,

take down the wrong nodes.

1. A dry-run-by-default safety rail, so a mistyped target group doesn't

commands were issued, against which nodes, whether each step succeeded, and whether the record itself has been altered or has a piece missing.

1. A signed, tamper-evident record of what happened: who ran it, what

HaltProof is that layer. It calls out to scontrol, kubectl, and ipmitool (or mcp-invokable equivalents) and wraps every invocation in an Ed25519-signed, hash-chained attestation.

Install

pip install haltproof-cli

An npm wrapper is also published for Node.js-based tooling and agent runtimes:

npm install -g haltproof-cli

[!WARNING]

The npm package requires the Python haltproof-cli package to already be

installed and on PATH. It is a thin execFileSync wrapper, not a

reimplementation. If it can't find the Python CLI, it prints an actionable

error and exits non-zero rather than silently doing something else.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Quickstart
• Commands
• Architecture
• Security model
• MCP server (for AI agents)
• Comparison
• What Is HaltProof, and Why Does It Exist
• FAQ
• Contributing
• License

Features

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.