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Description

Adds support for listing violations data. Note that this change also exports ResolveClusterID from a shared location.

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Tested with Claude Code (Opus 4.6) and RHACS 4.11:

❯ List the last 10 violations for stackrox secured clusters                                                                                                                                     

  Thought for 6s, called stackrox-mcp (ctrl+o to expand)

● Here are the 10 most recent violations on local-cluster:
 
  ┌─────┬─────────────────────┬──────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────┬───────────┬─────────┐
  │  #  │     Time (UTC)      │ Severity │                      Policy                       │    Deployment    │ Namespace │  Stage  │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
  │ 1   │ 2026-07-16 11:45:15 │ MEDIUM   │ OpenShift: Central Admin Secret Accessed          │ central-htpasswd │ stackrox  │ RUNTIME │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┤                                     
  │ 2   │ 2026-07-16 09:40:59 │ LOW      │ Docker CIS 4.1: Ensure User for Container Created │ leaderboard      │ tailspin  │ DEPLOY  │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
  │ 3   │ 2026-07-16 09:40:59 │ MEDIUM   │ Pod Service Account Token Automatically Mounted   │ leaderboard      │ tailspin  │ DEPLOY  │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
  │ 4   │ 2026-07-16 09:40:59 │ MEDIUM   │ No CPU request or memory limit specified          │ leaderboard      │ tailspin  │ DEPLOY  │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
  │ 5   │ 2026-07-16 09:40:59 │ MEDIUM   │ Container with privilege escalation allowed       │ leaderboard      │ tailspin  │ DEPLOY  │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
  │ 6   │ 2026-07-16 09:40:59 │ HIGH     │ Fixable Severity at least Important               │ leaderboard      │ tailspin  │ DEPLOY  │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
  │ 7   │ 2026-07-16 09:40:59 │ LOW      │ 90-Day Image Age                                  │ leaderboard      │ tailspin  │ DEPLOY  │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
  │ 8   │ 2026-07-16 09:40:59 │ LOW      │ Red Hat Package Manager in Image                  │ leaderboard      │ tailspin  │ DEPLOY  │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
  │ 9   │ 2026-07-16 09:40:59 │ LOW      │ Ubuntu Package Manager in Image                   │ leaderboard      │ tailspin  │ DEPLOY  │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
  │ 10  │ 2026-07-16 09:40:59 │ LOW      │ Latest tag                                        │ leaderboard      │ tailspin  │ DEPLOY  │
  └─────┴─────────────────────┴──────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────┴───────────┴─────────┘

  Notable findings:
  - The most recent violation is a runtime alert for the Central admin secret being accessed in the stackrox namespace.
  - The leaderboard deployment in tailspin namespace has 9 violations including a HIGH severity one for fixable vulnerabilities with severity "Important" or above.
  - All violations are ACTIVE state on the single secured cluster local-cluster.

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shaneboulden requested a review from janisz as a code owner July 16, 2026 12:00
@shaneboulden shaneboulden changed the title Violations Add support for violations (alerts) management tools Jul 16, 2026
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📝 Summary

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an optional violations toolset for listing policy violations.
    • Filter results by cluster ID or name, namespace, policy, severity, and state.
    • Browse results across pages and view related alert and policy details.
  • Configuration

    • Added an option to enable the violations toolset, which is disabled by default.
    • Updated configuration validation to accept violations as an enabled tool option.

Walkthrough

Adds a configurable violations toolset with a read-only list_violations MCP tool. The tool supports filters, cursor pagination, alert mapping, and cluster resolution. Existing vulnerability tools use the shared cluster resolver.

Changes

Violations toolset and cluster resolution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared cluster ID resolution
internal/cluster/*, internal/toolsets/vulnerability/*
Exports shared cluster ID resolution, updates its tests, and switches vulnerability tools to use it.
Violations configuration and toolset lifecycle
internal/config/config.go, internal/toolsets/violations/toolset.go, examples/config-read-only.yaml, internal/app/app.go
Adds violations configuration, a disabled default, validation, an enabled example setting, toolset lifecycle methods, and application registration.
Violation listing tool
internal/toolsets/violations/tools.go
Adds list_violations with filters, cursor pagination, alert retrieval, and mapped results.

Priority: ⚪ Not assessed

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MCPClient
  participant ListViolationsTool
  participant ClusterResolver
  participant StackRoxAPI
  MCPClient->>ListViolationsTool: Submit filters and cursor
  ListViolationsTool->>ClusterResolver: Resolve cluster ID or name
  ClusterResolver->>StackRoxAPI: Get clusters by name when needed
  StackRoxAPI-->>ClusterResolver: Cluster matches
  ListViolationsTool->>StackRoxAPI: Request alerts with filters and limit 101
  StackRoxAPI-->>ListViolationsTool: Alert results
  ListViolationsTool-->>MCPClient: Violation results and optional next cursor
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9af28

The new violations tool and the shared cluster resolver work as described. Cluster lookup failures may show raw backend error text rather than the consistent user-facing message. This is a small follow-up and should not block the merge.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 45.45% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 11 functions across 9 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the violations listing support and the shared ResolveClusterID export. It also includes relevant validation details.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main change: adding violations management tools.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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In `@internal/cluster/resolver.go`:
- Around line 12-14: Update ResolveClusterID to wrap failures from the
GetClusters API call with client.NewError before returning them, while
preserving the existing not-found behavior and successful cluster ID resolution.
Ensure every error propagated by this exported resolver follows the user-facing
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  • examples/config-read-only.yaml
  • internal/app/app.go
  • internal/cluster/resolver.go
  • internal/cluster/resolver_test.go
  • internal/config/config.go
  • internal/toolsets/violations/tools.go
  • internal/toolsets/violations/toolset.go
  • internal/toolsets/vulnerability/clusters.go
  • internal/toolsets/vulnerability/deployments.go
  • internal/toolsets/vulnerability/nodes.go

Comment on lines +12 to +14
// ResolveClusterID resolves a cluster name to its ID.
// Returns error if cluster name is not found or if API call fails.
func resolveClusterID(ctx context.Context, conn *grpc.ClientConn,
func ResolveClusterID(ctx context.Context, conn *grpc.ClientConn,

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Convert cluster API failures with client.NewError.

The exported resolver returns the raw GetClusters gRPC error through every consuming MCP handler, potentially exposing backend details and bypassing consistent error mapping.

Proposed fix
 import (
+	"github.com/stackrox/stackrox-mcp/internal/client"
 )

 // ...

 	if err != nil {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to fetch clusters: %w", err)
+		return "", client.NewError(err, "GetClusters")
 	}

As per path instructions, Go MCP server code requires “Proper error wrapping with client.NewError for user-facing errors.”

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In `@internal/cluster/resolver.go` around lines 12 - 14, Update ResolveClusterID
to wrap failures from the GetClusters API call with client.NewError before
returning them, while preserving the existing not-found behavior and successful
cluster ID resolution. Ensure every error propagated by this exported resolver
follows the user-facing client error mapping.

Source: Path instructions

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I think we need E2E for this

}

// IsReadOnly returns true as this tool only reads data.
func (t *listViolationsTool) IsReadOnly() bool {

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Idea not relevant to this PR: Maybe we can create a struct ReadOnlyTool that would implement this function and all read only tools can inherit from it. This will make navigation more obvious and easy to list all read only tools.
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}

if alert.GetTime() != nil {
v.Time = alert.GetTime().AsTime().UTC().Format("2006-01-02T15:04:05Z")

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why do we need this?

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Sorry, it's been a while since I looked at this.

I didn't want to rely on the time-stamp for alerts being consistently returned from the API, so explicitly format it here.

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🟡 Minor · Wrap the GetClusters error with client.NewError. · resolver.go:34

internal/cluster/resolver.go:34
🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Wrap the GetClusters error with client.NewError.

ResolveClusterID now serves every toolset handler. Line 34 returns the raw gRPC error through fmt.Errorf. This bypasses the consistent user-facing error mapping that the other handlers use, for example client.NewError(err, "GetClusters") in clusters.go.

The internal/client package must not import internal/cluster, so there is no import cycle. The local variable client on line 25 shadows the package name. Rename it when you add the import.

Proposed fix
-	client := v1.NewClustersServiceClient(conn)
+	clustersClient := v1.NewClustersServiceClient(conn)
 ...
-	resp, err := client.GetClusters(ctx, &v1.GetClustersRequest{
+	resp, err := clustersClient.GetClusters(ctx, &v1.GetClustersRequest{
 		Query: query,
 	})
 	if err != nil {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to fetch clusters: %w", err)
+		return "", client.NewError(err, "GetClusters")
 	}

Note: the test at resolver_test.go expects the text "failed to fetch clusters:". Update the test expectation, because client.NewError produces a different message.

As per path instructions, Go code needs "Proper error wrapping with client.NewError for user-facing errors".

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Review comment at @internal/cluster/resolver.go at line 34:
Update ResolveClusterID to wrap GetClusters failures with client.NewError using
the operation name "GetClusters" instead of fmt.Errorf; rename the local service
client variable if needed to avoid shadowing the client package, and align the
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Review comments at @internal/cluster/resolver.go:
- Line 34: Update ResolveClusterID to wrap GetClusters failures with
client.NewError using the operation name "GetClusters" instead of fmt.Errorf;
rename the local service client variable if needed to avoid shadowing the client
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  • internal/toolsets/violations/tools.go
  • internal/toolsets/violations/toolset.go
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