Readiness probes ran real searches every interval: searxng's
searxng_web_search probe fanned a query out to every engine 1,440 times a
day, billing API-key engines (braveapi, kagi), and duckduckgo's `search`
probe scraped DuckDuckGo from the same IP agents search from.
- searxng: probe searxng_instance_info, which reads /config only
- duckduckgo: probe fetch_content on example.com every 300s
- firecrawl (new): firecrawl-mcp against a self-hosted or cloud
Firecrawl, for reading pages as main-content markdown; probe
firecrawl_scrape on example.com every 300s
Every probe still names a readiness tool, as templates.test.ts requires;
each was run against the real package before being written down.
docs/web-search.md now pairs searxng (search) with firecrawl (reading)
and says why duckduckgo does not hold up under agent traffic.
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Instances are immutable and get recreated on any server edit, so anything an
MCP server wrote to its container filesystem was lost at exactly that point.
That ruled out every stateful MCP server, docs-mcp among them: its index is a
SQLite file (better-sqlite3 + sqlite-vec) and it has no external-database mode,
so no amount of Postgres helps.
A server or template can now declare volumes. The backing store is keyed on the
server, not the instance — `mcpctl-<server>-<name>` — which is the whole point:
an instance-scoped claim would be destroyed precisely when the data needs to
survive. On Kubernetes that is a PVC ensured in the servers namespace before the
pod is created and never deleted with it; on Docker, a named volume (named, not
anonymous, so `removeContainer`'s `v: true` leaves it alone).
Claims are ReadWriteOnce, so volumes and replicas > 1 are mutually exclusive;
validation rejects that pair instead of leaving the extra replicas
unschedulable. storageClassName is omitted rather than sent empty when no class
is configured — to Kubernetes those mean different things.
Also fixes a pre-existing bug in the same path: seedTemplates dropped `runtime`,
so every PyPI-backed template seeded from YAML silently defaulted to node and
would run `npx` against a package that only exists on PyPI. `unifi-network`
declares `runtime: python` and had been seeding with runtime unset.
Templates added, all self-hosted and none needing an API key:
- duckduckgo — no backing service at all
- searxng — needs a SearXNG engine (compose profile in stack/)
- docs-mcp — open-source Context7/Ref alternative, uses the new volume
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