Install
$ agentstack add mcp-jeff7712-nix-agent ✓ scanned · ✓ verified — works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
About
A local MCP server that gives AI agents composable NixOS / Home Manager operations: eval, lint, format, build, diff, switch, generations.
It pairs with mcp-nixos. nix-agent operates on your actual configuration, mcp-nixos handles package and option discovery.
> Experimental and a work in progress. Feedback and contributions welcome.
Install
Paste this to a coding agent (Claude Code, opencode, …) and it does the install:
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JEFF7712/nix-agent/main/docs/agent-install.md and follow every step to install nix-agent on this NixOS system, install the companion skill, and register nix-agent in my MCP settings for this machine.
Or do it by hand, see [docs/usage.md](docs/usage.md#install).
Docs
- [docs/usage.md](docs/usage.md): install, MCP host config, tool surface, workflow, design notes
- [docs/agent-install.md](docs/agent-install.md): one-shot agent install guide
- [docs/privileged-automation.md](docs/privileged-automation.md): non-interactive switch
- [skills/nix-agent/SKILL.md](skills/nix-agent/SKILL.md): companion agent skill
The banner uses the Nix snowflake from NixOS/nixos-artwork, licensed CC-BY 4.0.
Source & license
This open-source MCP server is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: JEFF7712
- Source: JEFF7712/nix-agent
- License: MIT
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.