FastMCP Service

FastMCP Service exposes NorFab service tasks as MCP tools via an HTTP endpoint. It is designed to integrate NorFab with MCP-capable clients (e.g. VS Code MCP).

FastMCP worker periodically discovers NorFab services and their tasks, and auto-generates MCP tools following this naming convention:

service_<service_name>__task_<task_name>

By default, FastMCP server listens on 0.0.0.0:8001 and serves MCP at /mcp/.

FastMCP Service Tasks

FastMCP Service supports a small set of tasks to manage MCP exposure.

Task	Description	Use Cases
get_tools	Return tools exposed by FastMCP worker (optionally filtered).	Tool discovery, debugging integrations, building MCP allow-lists.

FastMCP Service Show Commands

FastMCP service shell comes with a set of show commands to query service details:

nf#man tree show.fastmcp
root
└── show:    NorFab show commands
    └── fastmcp:    Show FastMCP service
        ├── inventory:    show FastMCP inventory data
        │   ├── timeout:    Job timeout
        │   └── workers:    Filter worker to target, default 'all'
        ├── version:    show FastMCP service version report
        ├── status:    show FastMCP server status
        │   ├── timeout:    Job timeout
        │   └── workers:    Filter worker to target, default 'all'
        └── tools:    show FastMCP server tools
            ├── timeout:    Job timeout
            ├── workers:    Filter worker to target, default 'any'
            ├── brief:    show tools names only
            ├── service:    filter tools by service name
            └── name:    filter tools by name using glob pattern
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VS Code MCP Integration

Refer to VSCode MCP integration tutorial for a minimal, end-to-end example of running FastMCP worker and connecting it as an MCP server in VS Code.