portainer

How to drive the Portainer MCP server's tools correctly — both reading and mutating. Reading: project responses with `select` (JMESPath), where the heavy fields live (snapshots, status blocks, managed fields), how to handle non-JSON Docker/K8s proxy endpoints…

How to cut a portainer-mcp release that bumps the embedded Portainer OpenAPI spec to a new Portainer minor (e.g. 2.41.x → 2.42.x). Walks through finding the upstream patch target, regenerating the spec, recounting ops/tags per profile, refreshing the…

Cut a new SDK release for client-api-go. Rotates the [Unreleased] section in CHANGELOG.md to a versioned section, bumps VERSION in Makefile and the install examples in README.md, commits, and creates a local git tag. Does NOT push and does NOT regenerate the…

How to drive the Portainer REST API correctly from curl or any plain-HTTP client using an API token — authentication with X-API-Key, the undocumented Docker/Kubernetes proxy surface, resolving environment IDs, deploying and managing stacks, keeping huge…

Add new applications to or update existing applications in the Portainer Industrial App Portal (PIAP) catalog. Use this skill whenever the user wants to add a new app to the catalog, update an existing catalog entry, create a new variant for an app, modify…