OpsCanvas MCP · Operator is free for individual engineers

The Cloud Context Your AI Needs

Use the AI you already have to understand and fix your cloud.

A local MCP server for Claude Code (CLI), Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, OpenAI Codex, and ChatGPT Desktop. It maps your whole cloud on your own machine in minutes, and it is the same product your team runs on Pro and your organization runs on Enterprise.

MinutesTo a live map of your cloud
35/35Answers correct. 0/35 without it
LocalRead only, nothing uploaded
$0Marginal cost on your AI subscription
Installnpm install -g @opscanvas/opscanvas && opscanvas setup

macOS, Linux, and Windows x64, with Node 22.13 or newer. Setup registers OpsCanvas with your AI tools. Read the documentation → Free with an OpsCanvas account. Works today with Claude Code (CLI), Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, OpenAI Codex, and ChatGPT Desktop.

Getting Started

Running in minutes.

No agent to adopt, no tagging project, no data to hand over. You stay in the tool you already work in.

01

Install

Install the launcher, then run setup. Setup registers OpsCanvas with the AI tools on your computer and starts it.

npm install -g @opscanvas/opscanvas && opscanvas setup
02

Confirm your sources

It reads what this workstation can already reach, using the credentials you already have. You confirm every source before anything enters your map.

AWS · Azure · Kubernetes · Terraform
03

Ask

Start with the question you were going to ask anyway. Answers come back grounded in your live estate, with the evidence trail attached.

"Show me the topology of my most active application."

The Short Version

Sixty seconds, from install to a cloud your AI understands.

Sound on. Everything below is the same story in text, in case you would rather read it.

Illustrative session from a sample environment.

Accurate, Secure, Accountable

The map never leaves. The answers do.

Three questions decide whether you point an AI at your cloud: will it be right, will my data leave, and who is answerable when it acts. OpsCanvas answers all three structurally rather than by policy. It is never another agent. It is the grounding and the guardrails for the AI you already trust.

  • Runs locally, your cloud data stays on your machine
  • Read-only by default
  • Limited to your own permissions, never beyond your access
  • Your credentials never leave this machine, and you confirm every source
  • A human approves every change, step by step
  • Full audit trail with decision traces

Inside Your LLM

Ask your cloud anything, in plain English.

Ask from Claude Code (CLI), Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, OpenAI Codex, or ChatGPT Desktop. Every answer is grounded in your live topology, with the evidence trail behind it.

your LLM
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1,180 resources across 6 accounts, sized by monthly spend and wired by real dependency.
Biggest single line is ec2-ml-training at $28.6k a month, with no CPU activity in 38 days.
✓ Spend, waste, health, and ownership are already on the map.
This is a configuration change, not organic growth. Spend on the payments path jumped 31% at 02:14.
The update the Payments team deployed overnight is responsible. It doubled the read replica count on rds-payments.
✓ Correlated against deploy history, not inferred from the bill alone.
Six resources sit downstream, including the API fleet and the CDN origin.
Your analytics estate is untouched, so a failover does not affect reporting.
⚠ Two of the six have no retry configured. Review before you proceed.
Cross-checked cost against topology and connection history.
4 zombies: a load balancer with 0 connections for 6 months, 2 unattached volumes, 1 idle NAT gateway.
$212/mo recoverable. None have downstream dependents.
Answers grounded in your Cloud Intelligence Graph™ · illustrative output

Illustrative session from a sample environment.

Works With Your AI

It plugs into the tools your engineers already use.

OpsCanvas arrives as an MCP server, so there is no new agent to adopt and no new interface to learn. Same tool, same subscription, now with your live cloud topology behind every answer.

Five surfaces are tested and supported today, marked Supported below. More are close behind: because this is a standard MCP server, it will often work in a tool we have not listed yet, but we only call something supported once we have tested it and done the tuning that tool needs.

Works with Claude Code CLI

Supported

Works with Claude Desktop

Supported

Works with Claude Cowork

Supported

Works with OpenAI Codex

Supported

Works with ChatGPT Desktop

Supported

Coming soon: Cursor

Coming soon

Coming soon: OpenCode

Coming soon

Coming soon: Antigravity CLI

Coming soon

Coming soon: Gemini Code Assist

Coming soon

Coming soon: Grok

Coming soon

Prefer a Command Line?

Oscar CLI is the same graph, delivered as our own agent.

OpsCanvas MCP is the product. If you would rather work from a terminal without an MCP-capable tool, the Oscar command line agent still ships and works on the same graph with the same safety model. Setup and reference are in the docs.

Common Questions

OpsCanvas MCP, answered.

What is MCP?

The Model Context Protocol is an open standard that lets AI tools like Claude Code (CLI), Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, OpenAI Codex, and ChatGPT Desktop call external capabilities. OpsCanvas arrives as an MCP server, which is why it works inside the AI your engineers already use instead of asking them to adopt another agent.

Which AI tools does it work with?

Tested and supported today: Claude Code (CLI), Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, OpenAI Codex, and ChatGPT Desktop. Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, Gemini Code Assist, and Grok are coming soon. OpsCanvas MCP is a standard MCP server, so it will often work in an MCP-capable tool we have not listed. Coming soon means we have not finished testing it or done the tuning that tool needs, not that it is blocked.

Does my cloud data leave my machine?

No. The map is built locally, under your own credentials, and it stays on your machine. Your estate is not uploaded, not used for training, and not shared. The model sees answers. It does not get your infrastructure.

What can I do in the first session?

Read and understand your estate. Ask for the topology of your most active application, what is costing you the most right now, what nothing is using, what changed overnight, and what sits downstream of anything you are thinking of touching.

How long does the map take to build?

Minutes. In the walkthrough above, a six-account estate of 1,180 resources reached a live map in minutes. Larger estates take longer, and you confirm every source before it enters the map.

Do I need to tag my resources first?

No. The map is built from runtime behavior and real dependency, not from tags. Tagging projects are incomplete on day one and wrong by day two, which is exactly the gap this closes.

Can it change things in my cloud?

Not in this release. OpsCanvas MCP is read-only today by design, on the principle that trust comes before mutation. It reads, correlates, and explains your estate so you can decide what to change and make the change yourself. Guardrailed remediation with human approval on every write is in development and is not part of what you install today.

What does it cost?

Nothing. OpsCanvas MCP is free with an OpsCanvas account, and running it costs $0 extra because it works through the AI subscription you already pay for rather than billing you per token. There is no credit card and no trial clock.

Is this the local version or the hosted one?

Local. This is Operator, the free edition for the individual engineer: the server runs on your workstation, the map is built and stored there, and there is nothing to provision and no tenant to sign up for. Pro, where a team shares one hosted map, is per seat and is not what the install command above gives you.

Do I need to install anything else, or get my cloud team involved?

No. It reads what your workstation can already reach, using the cloud credentials you have already configured, so there is no new role to provision, no agent to deploy into your accounts, and nothing for anyone to approve before you try it. You confirm each source before it enters your map.

Why not just connect my assistant directly to my cloud accounts?

Direct connections give the model raw data, and in our evaluation that was not enough to produce a single correct environment answer: 35 of 35 correct with the graph connected, zero without. Dependencies, blast radius, ownership, and change history live in the graph, not in any single API.

What is Operator?

Operator is the name of the free edition: OpsCanvas MCP for one person, on one workstation, local and read only. Pro is the same product for a team, hosted by OpsCanvas. Enterprise is the same product hosted by you. The install command above gives you Operator.

What changes when my team joins Pro?

Nothing starts over. When you join a team on Pro, everything you already mapped appears in the team's graph on arrival, and the team gets one combined map, a shared findings queue with ownership, and a record of who asked what and what was approved. Pro is per seat; see pricing.

How is this different from the Oscar CLI?

Oscar is our own command line agent and it continues to ship and work. OpsCanvas MCP is the same graph and the same safety model, delivered inside the tools your engineers already use rather than as another agent alongside them.

Get Started

Install once, then ask your model anything about your cloud.

Free with an OpsCanvas account. Read only, local, and $0 marginal cost on the subscription you already have.