Red Hat Lightspeed MCP

(formerly known as Insights MCP)

Red Hat Lightspeed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is a lightweight, self-hosted solution that connects LLM-based agents - such as Claude Desktop and other MCP-compatible tools - to Red Hat Lightspeed services.

Features

• Supports read-only operations: The server runs in read-only mode by default. Use --all-tools to enable write tools (e.g. create blueprints, run composes). RBAC permissions can also restrict access.
• Provides natural language prompts: provides an ability to use natural language for querying Red Hat Lightspeed services

Supported Lightspeed Services

• Advisor
• Content sources (repositories)
• Hosted image builder
• Inventory
• OCP advisor
• Planning
• Remediations
• RHSM (activation keys)
• Vulnerability

Setup and usage

Authentication

Note: Authentication is only required for accessing Red Hat Lightspeed APIs. The MCP server itself does not require authentication.

There are two ways to authenticate:

1. Service Account (client_id + client_secret) — create a service account and provide the credentials via environment variables or HTTP headers.
2. JWT Bearer Token — provide a pre-existing JWT token via the Authorization: Bearer HTTP header (SSE/HTTP transports only).

Service Account Setup

1. Go to https://console.redhat.com → Click Settings (⚙️ Gear Icon) → “Service Accounts”
2. Create a service account and remember Client ID and Client secret for later. See below in the integration instructions, there they are respectively referred to as LIGHTSPEED_CLIENT_ID and LIGHTSPEED_CLIENT_SECRET.