MCP server health dashboard and reconnect control. Surfaces the watchdog + keepalive + reauth subsystem as a discoverable slash command. Routes — status, servers, reconnect, reauth, logs, restart, test.
Scanned 5/27/2026
Install via CLI
openskills install Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops---
name: ops-mcp
description: MCP server health dashboard and reconnect control. Surfaces the watchdog + keepalive + reauth subsystem as a discoverable slash command. Routes — status, servers, reconnect, reauth, logs, restart, test.
argument-hint: "[status|servers|reconnect [server]|reauth [server]|logs [N]|restart|test [server]]"
allowed-tools:
- Bash
- Read
- Grep
- Glob
- Skill
- AskUserQuestion
effort: low
maxTurns: 20
---
# OPS ► MCP
Surfaces the MCP auto-reconnect subsystem (watchdog + keepalive + reauth) as a discoverable slash command. These three scripts were previously orphaned — no plugin-level entry point. This skill is the entry point.
For full architecture reference (state files, scripts, failure modes) see [`STATUS.md`](./STATUS.md).
## Runtime Context
Before any route runs, resolve:
1. **State dir**: `$HOME/.claude/state/mcp-watchdog` — watchdog state, health, and logs.
2. **Keepalive state dir**: `$HOME/.claude/state/mcp-keepalive` — keepalive logs and health.
3. **Reauth state dir**: `$HOME/.claude/state/mcp-reauth` — reauth logs.
4. **Plugin root**: `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}` — used to invoke scripts.
5. **Claude config**: `$HOME/.claude.json` — source of truth for configured MCP servers.
If the watchdog state dir does not exist, the watchdog has never run — surface a setup hint on the `status` route.
## Routing table
Parse `$ARGUMENTS` and route immediately. First token decides the route.
| First arg | Route |
| ----------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| (empty) / `status` | **Status dashboard** — watchdog health + per-server states + last tick |
| `servers` | List all MCP servers from `~/.claude.json` with current state |
| `reconnect [server]` | Manually trigger watchdog reconnect for one server or all |
| `reauth [server]` | Invoke `ops-mcp-reauth.py` for the named server (Playwright OAuth flow) |
| `logs [N]` | Tail N lines (default 50) of watchdog + keepalive logs |
| `restart` | Restart the watchdog (update crontab entry) |
| `test [server]` | Fire a no-op MCP probe against one server to verify reachability |
Anything else: print the routing table and exit.
---
## Route — `status` (default)
Read state files in parallel, render a compact dashboard.
```bash
WATCHDOG_STATE="$HOME/.claude/state/mcp-watchdog"
KEEPALIVE_STATE="$HOME/.claude/state/mcp-keepalive"
# Watchdog health file
cat "$WATCHDOG_STATE/.health" 2>/dev/null
# Current server states (last watchdog run)
cat "$WATCHDOG_STATE/state.json" 2>/dev/null
# Last run timestamp from log
tail -n 5 "$WATCHDOG_STATE/run.log" 2>/dev/null
# Keepalive health
cat "$KEEPALIVE_STATE/.health" 2>/dev/null
# Crontab entry (to confirm watchdog is scheduled)
crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -E "ops-mcp-(watchdog|keepalive)"
```
**Output format:**
```
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
OPS ► MCP — [timestamp]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
DAEMONS
watchdog [running|never_run] last tick [Xs ago] cron [registered|missing]
keepalive [ok|warn|never_run] last tick [Xs ago]
SERVERS ([N] configured)
[name] [healthy|token_expired|needs_bootstrap|unreachable|server_error]
url=[masked — scheme+host only] last_probed=[Xs ago]
SUMMARY
healthy=[N] degraded=[N] needs_bootstrap=[N]
LAST RECONNECT ACTIVITY
[last 3 lines from run.log showing recovered/degraded events]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
```
**Mobile mode** (`$SSH_CONNECTION` set, `$OPS_MOBILE=1`, or `$COLUMNS<80`):
```
mcp: watchdog ok, keepalive ok, 5m ago
servers: 4 healthy, 1 needs_bootstrap (giga)
cron: registered
```
After dashboard: if any server is `needs_bootstrap`, surface a one-line hint: "Run `/ops:mcp reauth <name>` to restore OAuth." No `AskUserQuestion` unless something requires a binary choice.
---
## Route — `servers`
List every MCP server from `~/.claude.json` cross-referenced with the last watchdog `state.json`.
```bash
# Parse ~/.claude.json for all mcpServers entries
python3 -c "
import json, os
d = json.load(open(os.path.expanduser('~/.claude.json')))
servers = d.get('mcpServers') or {}
for name, cfg in servers.items():
print(json.dumps({'name': name, 'type': cfg.get('type','stdio'), 'url': cfg.get('url',''), 'command': cfg.get('command','')}))
"
# Cross-reference with watchdog state
cat "$HOME/.claude/state/mcp-watchdog/state.json" 2>/dev/null
```
Format per server:
```
[name]
type: [http|stdio]
url/cmd: [masked url or command path]
state: [healthy|token_expired|needs_bootstrap|unreachable|not_probed]
probed: [ISO timestamp or "never"]
detail: [detail field if not healthy]
```
---
## Route — `reconnect [server]`
Manually triggers the watchdog for one server or all. The watchdog already handles auto-refresh; this forces an immediate out-of-schedule run.
```bash
WATCHDOG="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/ops-mcp-watchdog.py"
if [[ -n "$SERVER_ARG" ]]; then
# Single server: set env to probe only that URL
URL=$(python3 -c "
import json, os, sys
d = json.load(open(os.path.expanduser('~/.claude.json')))
s = (d.get('mcpServers') or {}).get(sys.argv[1], {})
print(s.get('url', ''))
" "$SERVER_ARG")
MCP_KEEPALIVE_URLS="$URL" python3 "$WATCHDOG"
else
# All servers
python3 "$WATCHDOG"
fi
```
Print the exit code and last 5 lines of `run.log` on completion.
---
## Route — `reauth [server]`
Invokes `ops-mcp-reauth.py` (Playwright headless OAuth flow) for the named server. If no server is named, list `needs_bootstrap` servers and `AskUserQuestion` which to reauth.
```bash
REAUTH="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/ops-mcp-reauth.py"
# Resolve URL for the named server
URL=$(python3 -c "
import json, os, sys
d = json.load(open(os.path.expanduser('~/.claude.json')))
s = (d.get('mcpServers') or {}).get(sys.argv[1], {})
print(s.get('url', ''))
" "$SERVER_ARG")
if [[ -z "$URL" ]]; then
echo "Server '$SERVER_ARG' not found or has no URL (stdio servers cannot be reauthed this way)"
exit 1
fi
python3 "$REAUTH" "$URL"
```
On exit 0: confirm tokens were written, suggest running `/ops:mcp test <server>` to verify.
On exit 1: the consent page required a login the browser profile didn't have. Surface the bootstrap hint: `python3 $REAUTH --bootstrap` opens a headed browser for one-time sign-in.
---
## Route — `logs [N]`
Tail the most recent N lines (default 50) from watchdog, keepalive, and reauth logs.
```bash
N="${LOG_N:-50}"
WATCHDOG_LOG="$HOME/.claude/state/mcp-watchdog/run.log"
KEEPALIVE_LOG="$HOME/.claude/state/mcp-keepalive/run.log"
REAUTH_LOG="$HOME/.claude/state/mcp-reauth/run.log"
echo "=== watchdog (last $N) ==="
tail -n "$N" "$WATCHDOG_LOG" 2>/dev/null || echo "(no log)"
echo ""
echo "=== keepalive (last $N) ==="
tail -n "$N" "$KEEPALIVE_LOG" 2>/dev/null || echo "(no log)"
echo ""
echo "=== reauth (last $N) ==="
tail -n "$N" "$REAUTH_LOG" 2>/dev/null || echo "(no log)"
```
---
## Route — `restart`
Ensures both `ops-mcp-watchdog.py` (cron `*/5`) and `ops-mcp-keepalive.sh` (cron `*/15`) are in the user's crontab. Does NOT remove existing entries — adds if missing.
```bash
WATCHDOG="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/ops-mcp-watchdog.py"
KEEPALIVE="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/ops-mcp-keepalive.sh"
# Idempotent crontab injection
TMPFILE=$(mktemp)
crontab -l 2>/dev/null > "$TMPFILE" || true
if ! grep -q "ops-mcp-watchdog" "$TMPFILE"; then
echo "*/5 * * * * /opt/homebrew/bin/python3 $WATCHDOG >> $HOME/.claude/state/mcp-watchdog/run.log 2>&1" >> "$TMPFILE"
echo "Added watchdog cron entry"
fi
if ! grep -q "ops-mcp-keepalive" "$TMPFILE"; then
echo "*/15 * * * * bash $KEEPALIVE >> $HOME/.claude/state/mcp-keepalive/run.log 2>&1" >> "$TMPFILE"
echo "Added keepalive cron entry"
fi
crontab "$TMPFILE"
rm "$TMPFILE"
echo "Crontab updated. Verify with: crontab -l | grep ops-mcp"
```
---
## Route — `test [server]`
Fire a direct JSON-RPC `initialize` probe at the named server (or all) using the same logic as the watchdog.
```bash
python3 - "$SERVER_ARG" <<'PY'
import json, os, sys
from pathlib import Path
# Import probe logic from watchdog
import importlib.util
wp = Path(os.environ.get("CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT", "")) / "scripts/ops-mcp-watchdog.py"
spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("watchdog", wp)
wdog = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
spec.loader.exec_module(wdog)
target = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else None
mcps = wdog.list_http_mcps()
if not mcps:
print("No HTTP MCPs configured")
sys.exit(0)
for name, url in mcps.items():
if target and name != target:
continue
r = wdog.probe(url, name)
print(f"{name}: {r['state']}" + (f" — {r.get('detail','')}" if r.get('detail') else ""))
PY
```
Print result per server. On `healthy`: confirm reachable. On any other state: describe the failure and suggest the remediation route (`/ops:mcp reauth <name>` or `/ops:mcp reconnect <name>`).
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