# Argo CD MCP connector

The Argo CD connector brings your applications, sync history, manifests and account tokens into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent, so each engineer can ask about a deployment and act on it inside their own Argo CD access.

Source: https://elaichi.ai/connectors/argocd/

## Facts

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Application | Argo CD |
| Category | CI |
| AI tools | 115 |
| Authentication | Connects with an API key |
| Needs your own OAuth app | No |
| MCP endpoint | https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp |
| Works with | Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any MCP client, and the Elaichi Agent |
| Tools advertised by name | No. 115 tools is past the 30-tool threshold, so clients use `search_tools` and `execute_tool` |

## What you can ask once Argo CD is connected

- Which Argo CD applications changed in the last day?
- List recent events for the payments Argo CD application.
- Show Argo CD accounts that hold active tokens.

## Connect Argo CD in Elaichi

This happens once for the organization, before any client is involved.

1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Argo CD.
2. Optionally set Share with, then press Connect.
3. Paste an Argo CD API key. One person generates a token in Argo CD and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.

Credentials are vaulted and nobody, including the AI, reads them back. The connection becomes a toolbox immediately, so you can curate which Argo CD tools are exposed, rename them, or freeze arguments before anyone points a client at it.

## Connect Argo CD to Claude

Endpoint: https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp

1. Open Customize, then Connectors.
2. Press Add.
3. Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
4. Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

## Connect Argo CD to ChatGPT

Endpoint: https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp

1. Open Plugins, then press the + button.
2. Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
3. Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
4. Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

## Connect Argo CD to Cursor

Endpoint: https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp

1. Open `~/.cursor/mcp.json`.
2. Add the endpoint under `mcpServers`.
3. Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.

Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.

## Connect Argo CD to any MCP client

Endpoint: https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp

1. Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
2. Sign in and approve.

The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.

## What the consent screen decides

Only Read is granted by default, which is not enough to call a Argo CD tool. Over MCP there is no trusted place to confirm a write in the moment, so the consent screen is the standing approval rather than a formality. Grant Read and Run tools. Think hard before granting Delete, which reaches into connected apps and cannot be undone.

## What teams do with Argo CD through Elaichi

### Find out why a deployment is stuck

Platform. Ask which applications are out of sync or degraded, then pull the recent events and logs for the one that matters without opening Argo CD.

### Check the diff before you approve a sync

DevOps. See the server side diff between what is running and what the repository says should be running, and describe the change in plain words for the release channel.

### Trace an incident to the resource

SRE. Walk the resource tree of an application to find the pod, service or config that changed, and read its events alongside the deployment timeline.

### Register a new application from a template

Engineering. Create an Argo CD application for a new service with the right repository, path and destination cluster, and update it later when the branch or namespace changes.

### Stop a sync that is going wrong

Release management. Cancel a running operation on an application the moment it starts failing, then confirm the managed resources are back to a known state.

### Review accounts and rotate tokens

Security. List every Argo CD account, check what each one is allowed to do, create a fresh token for a service account and delete the old one.

## Frequently asked questions

### How do I connect Argo CD to Claude?

Two steps. In Elaichi, choose Argo CD and paste in an API key from your Argo CD instance, there is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then in Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in with your Elaichi account and Argo CD is ready in that chat.

### Does Argo CD work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. Once Argo CD is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Argo CD once and every client sees it.

### What can an AI agent actually do with my Argo CD data?

It can list your Argo CD applications and tell you which are out of sync, read the events and logs for one that is failing, show the diff between the running state and the repository, and walk the resource tree down to the pod that changed. It can also create or update an application, cancel a running sync operation, and list accounts or create and delete tokens. Because Argo CD exposes more than a hundred actions, short specific asks such as "show events for the payments app" work better than long paragraphs.

### Does connecting Argo CD give the AI access to every cluster and project?

No. The agent works inside the Argo CD permissions of the API key and the person who signed in, so if that person cannot see a project or cluster in Argo CD, neither can the agent. Elaichi can narrow that access further with restrictions, and it never widens it beyond what Argo CD already allows.

### Can my team share one Argo CD connection?

Yes. One person connects Argo CD in Elaichi and shares the connection with a team, and nobody else ever handles the API key. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so every action in Argo CD is recorded against the person who asked for it, not against the person who connected it.

### Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Argo CD?

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi work per action, so you can allow reading Argo CD applications, events, logs and diffs while blocking creating, updating or deleting applications and tokens. A blocked action is never advertised to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor at all, so no prompt, accidental or otherwise, can reach it.

### What happens to an Argo CD connection when someone leaves?

Offboarding that person in Elaichi ends their access to Argo CD through every client at once, and the audit log keeps their history. A shared Argo CD connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you want to remove Argo CD entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent together.

## All 115 Argo CD tools

Every tool below is callable through https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp once Argo CD is connected, subject to the toolbox it is in and the restrictions on the caller.

- **List all Argo CD accounts** (List). Returns the list of accounts. Returns: items.
- **Argo CD accounts list 2** (List). Returns an account. Returns: capabilities, enabled, name, tokens. Required: name.
- **Get single Argo CD account by ID** (Get). Returns an account. Returns: capabilities, enabled, name, tokens. Required: id.
- **List all Argo CD account can is** (List). Checks if the current account has permission to perform an action. Returns: value. Required: resource, action, subresource.
- **Update a Argo CD account password by ID** (Update). Updates an account's password to a new value.
- **Create a Argo CD token** (Create). Creates a token. Returns: token. Required: name.
- **Delete a Argo CD token by ID** (Delete). Deletes a token. Required: id, name.
- **List all Argo CD applications** (List). List returns list of applications. Returns: items, metadata.
- **Create a Argo CD application** (Create). Create creates an application. Returns: metadata, operation, spec, status.
- **Update a Argo CD application by ID** (Update). Update updates an application. Returns: metadata, operation, spec, status. Required: id.
- **Get single Argo CD application by ID** (Get). Get returns an application by name. Returns: metadata, operation, spec, status. Required: id.
- **Argo CD applications update 2** (Update). Patch patch an application. Returns: metadata, operation, spec, status. Required: name.
- **Delete a Argo CD application by ID** (Delete). Delete deletes an application. Returns: metadata, operation, spec, status. Required: id.
- **Argo CD applications list events** (List). Returns a list of event resources. Returns: items, metadata. Required: name.
- **Argo CD applications list logs** (List). Returns stream of log entries for the specified pod. Pod. Returns: error, result. Required: name.
- **Argo CD applications partial update** (Update). Patch patch an application. Returns: metadata, operation, spec, status. Required: id.
- **Create a Argo CD applications manifests with file** (Create). Returns application manifests using provided files to generate them. Returns: commands, manifests, namespace, revision, server, sourceType, verifyResult.
- **List all Argo CD application server side diffs** (List). Performs server-side diff calculation using dry-run apply. Returns: items, modified. Required: app_name.
- **List all Argo CD application managed resources** (List). Returns list of managed resources. Returns: items. Required: application_name.
- **List all Argo CD application resource trees** (List). Returns resource tree. Returns: hosts, nodes, orphanedNodes, shardsCount. Required: application_name.
- **Argo CD application resource trees list 2** (List). Watch returns stream of application resource tree. Returns: error, result. Required: application_name.
- **List all Argo CD application links** (List). Returns the list of all application deep links. Returns: items. Required: name.
- **List all Argo CD application manifests** (List). Returns application manifests. Returns: commands, manifests, namespace, revision, server, sourceType, verifyResult. Required: name.
- **Delete a Argo CD application operation by ID** (Delete). Terminates the currently running operation. Required: name.
- **List all Argo CD application pods** (List). Returns stream of log entries for the specified pod. Pod. Returns: error, result. Required: name, pod_name.
- **List all Argo CD application resources** (List). Returns single application resource. Returns: manifest. Required: name.
- **Create a Argo CD application resource** (Create). Patch single application resource. Returns: manifest. Required: name.
- **Delete a Argo CD application resource by ID** (Delete). Deletes a single application resource. Returns: metadata, operation, spec, status. Required: name.
- **List all Argo CD resource actions** (List). Returns list of resource actions. Returns: actions. Required: name.
- **Create a Argo CD resource action** (Create). Runs a resource action. Returns: metadata, operation, spec, status. Required: name.
- **Argo CD resource actions create 2** (Create). Runs a resource action with parameters. Returns: metadata, operation, spec, status. Required: name.
- **List all Argo CD resource links** (List). Returns the list of all resource deep links. Returns: items. Required: name.
- **List all Argo CD revision chartdetails** (List). Get the chart metadata (description, maintainers, home) for a specific revision of the application. Returns: description, home, maintainers. Required: name, revision.
- **List all Argo CD metadata** (List). Get the meta-data (author, date, tags, message) for a specific revision of the application. Returns: author, date, message, references, signatureInfo, tags. Required: name, revision.
- **List all Argo CD revision ocimetadatas** (List). Get the chart metadata (description, maintainers, home) for a specific revision of the application. Returns: authors, createdAt, description, docsUrl, imageUrl, sourceUrl, version. Required: name, revision.
- **Create a Argo CD application rollback** (Create). Rollback syncs an application to its target state. Returns: metadata, operation, spec, status. Required: name.
- **Update a Argo CD application spec by ID** (Update). Updates an application spec. Returns: destination, ignoreDifferences, info, project, revisionHistoryLimit, source, sourceHydrator, sources. Required: name.
- **Create a Argo CD application sync** (Create). Sync syncs an application to its target state. Returns: metadata, operation, spec, status. Required: name.
- **List all Argo CD application syncwindows** (List). Get returns sync windows of the application. Returns: activeWindows, assignedWindows, canSync. Required: name.
- **List all Argo CD applicationsets** (List). List returns list of applicationset. Returns: items, metadata.
- **Create a Argo CD applicationset** (Create). Create creates an applicationset. Returns: metadata, spec, status.
- **Get single Argo CD applicationset by ID** (Get). Get returns an applicationset by name. Returns: metadata, spec, status. Required: id.
- **Delete a Argo CD applicationset by ID** (Delete). Delete deletes an application set. Returns: applicationset, project. Required: id.
- **Argo CD applicationsets list events** (List). Returns a list of event resources. Returns: items, metadata. Required: name.
- **Create a Argo CD applicationsets generate** (Create). Generate generates. Returns: applications.
- **List all Argo CD applicationset resource trees** (List). Returns resource tree. Returns: nodes. Required: name.
- **List all Argo CD certificates** (List). List all available repository certificates. Returns: items, metadata.
- **Create a Argo CD certificate** (Create). Creates repository certificates on the server. Returns: items, metadata.
- **Delete a Argo CD certificate by ID** (Delete). Delete the certificates that match the RepositoryCertificateQuery. Returns: items, metadata.
- **List all Argo CD clusters** (List). List returns list of clusters. Returns: items, metadata.
- **Create a Argo CD cluster** (Create). Create creates a cluster. Returns: annotations, clusterResources, config, connectionState, info, labels, name, namespaces.
- **Get single Argo CD cluster by ID** (Get). Get returns a cluster by server address. Returns: annotations, clusterResources, config, connectionState, info, labels, name, namespaces. Required: id.
- **Update a Argo CD cluster by ID** (Update). Update updates a cluster. Returns: annotations, clusterResources, config, connectionState, info, labels, name, namespaces. Required: id.
- **Delete a Argo CD cluster by ID** (Delete). Delete deletes a cluster. Required: id.
- **Create a Argo CD cluster invalidate cach** (Create). Invalidates cluster cache. Returns: annotations, clusterResources, config, connectionState, info, labels, name, namespaces. Required: id.value.
- **Create a Argo CD cluster rotate auth** (Create). Rotates the bearer token used for a cluster. Required: id.value.
- **List all Argo CD gpgkeys** (List). List all available repository certificates. Returns: items, metadata.
- **Create a Argo CD gpgkey** (Create). Create one or more GPG public keys in the server's configuration. Returns: created, skipped.
- **Delete a Argo CD gpgkey by ID** (Delete). Delete specified GPG public key from the server's configuration.
- **Get single Argo CD gpgkey by ID** (Get). Get information about specified GPG public key from the server. Returns: fingerprint, keyData, keyID, owner, subType, trust. Required: id.
- **List all Argo CD notifications services** (List). List returns list of services. Returns: items.
- **List all Argo CD notifications templates** (List). List returns list of templates. Returns: items.
- **List all Argo CD notifications triggers** (List). List returns list of triggers. Returns: items.
- **List all Argo CD projects** (List). List returns list of projects. Returns: items, metadata.
- **Create a Argo CD project** (Create). Create a new project. Returns: metadata, spec, status.
- **Get single Argo CD project by ID** (Get). Get returns a project by name. Returns: metadata, spec, status. Required: id.
- **Delete a Argo CD project by ID** (Delete). Delete deletes a project. Required: id.
- **Argo CD projects list events** (List). Returns a list of project events. Returns: items, metadata. Required: name.
- **Update a Argo CD project by ID** (Update). Update updates a project. Returns: metadata, spec, status. Required: id.
- **List all Argo CD project detaileds** (List). Returns a project that include project, global project and scoped resources by name. Returns: clusters, globalProjects, project, repositories. Required: name.
- **List all Argo CD project globalprojects** (List). Get returns a virtual project by name. Returns: items. Required: name.
- **List all Argo CD project links** (List). Returns all deep links for the particular project. Returns: items. Required: name.
- **List all Argo CD project syncwindows** (List). Returns true if there are any active sync syncWindows. Returns: windows. Required: name.
- **Create a Argo CD role token** (Create). Create a new project token. Returns: token. Required: project, role.
- **Delete a Argo CD role token by ID** (Delete). Delete a new project token. Required: id, project, role.
- **List all Argo CD repocreds** (List). Gets a list of all configured repository credential sets. Returns: items, metadata.
- **Create a Argo CD repocred** (Create). Creates a new repository credential set. Returns: bearerToken, enableOCI, forceHttpBasicAuth, gcpServiceAccountKey, githubAppEnterpriseBaseUrl, githubAppID, githubAppInstallationID, githubAppPrivateKey.
- **Update a Argo CD repocred by ID** (Update). Updates a repository credential set. Returns: bearerToken, enableOCI, forceHttpBasicAuth, gcpServiceAccountKey, githubAppEnterpriseBaseUrl, githubAppID, githubAppInstallationID, githubAppPrivateKey. Required: id.
- **Delete a Argo CD repocred by ID** (Delete). Deletes a repository credential set from the configuration. Required: id.
- **List all Argo CD repositories** (List). Gets a list of all configured repositories. Returns: items, metadata.
- **Create a Argo CD repository** (Create). Creates a new repository configuration. Returns: bearerToken, connectionState, depth, enableLfs, enableOCI, forceHttpBasicAuth, gcpServiceAccountKey, githubAppEnterpriseBaseUrl.
- **Update a Argo CD repository by ID** (Update). Updates a repository configuration. Returns: bearerToken, connectionState, depth, enableLfs, enableOCI, forceHttpBasicAuth, gcpServiceAccountKey, githubAppEnterpriseBaseUrl. Required: id.
- **Get single Argo CD repository by ID** (Get). Get returns a repository or its credentials. Returns: bearerToken, connectionState, depth, enableLfs, enableOCI, forceHttpBasicAuth, gcpServiceAccountKey, githubAppEnterpriseBaseUrl. Required: id.
- **Delete a Argo CD repository by ID** (Delete). Deletes a repository from the configuration. Required: id.
- **List all Argo CD repositorie apps** (List). Returns list of apps in the repo. Returns: items. Required: repo.
- **List all Argo CD repositorie helmcharts** (List). Returns list of helm charts in the specified repository. Returns: items. Required: repo.
- **List all Argo CD repositorie oci tags** (List). List OCI Tags. Returns: branches, tags. Required: repo.
- **List all Argo CD repositorie refs** (List). List Refs. Returns: branches, tags. Required: repo.
- **Create a Argo CD repositorie validate** (Create). Validates access to a repository with given parameters. Required: repo.
- **Create a Argo CD repositorie appdetail** (Create). Returns application details by given path. Returns: directory, helm, kustomize, plugin, type. Required: source.repo_url.
- **Create a Argo CD session** (Create). Create a new JWT for authentication and set a cookie if using HTTP. Returns: token.
- **Delete a Argo CD session by ID** (Delete). Delete an existing JWT cookie if using HTTP. Returns: token.
- **List all Argo CD session userinfos** (List). Get the current user's info. Returns: groups, iss, loggedIn, username.
- **List all Argo CD settings** (List). Get returns Argo CD settings. Returns: additionalUrls, appLabelKey, appsInAnyNamespaceEnabled, configManagementPlugins, controllerNamespace, dexConfig, execEnabled, googleAnalytics.
- **List all Argo CD settings plugins** (List). Get returns Argo CD plugins. Returns: plugins.
- **List all Argo CD stream applications** (List). Watch returns stream of application change events. Returns: error, result.
- **List all Argo CD stream applicationsets** (List). Watch. Returns: error, result.
- **List all Argo CD write repocreds** (List). Gets a list of all configured repository credential sets that have write access. Returns: items, metadata.
- **Create a Argo CD write repocred** (Create). Creates a new repository credential set with write access. Returns: bearerToken, enableOCI, forceHttpBasicAuth, gcpServiceAccountKey, githubAppEnterpriseBaseUrl, githubAppID, githubAppInstallationID, githubAppPrivateKey.
- **Update a Argo CD write repocred by ID** (Update). Updates a repository credential set with write access. Returns: bearerToken, enableOCI, forceHttpBasicAuth, gcpServiceAccountKey, githubAppEnterpriseBaseUrl, githubAppID, githubAppInstallationID, githubAppPrivateKey. Required: id.
- **Delete a Argo CD write repocred by ID** (Delete). Deletes a repository credential set with write access from the configuration. Required: id.
- **List all Argo CD write repositories** (List). Gets a list of all configured write repositories. Returns: items, metadata.
- **Create a Argo CD write repository** (Create). Creates a new write repository configuration. Returns: bearerToken, connectionState, depth, enableLfs, enableOCI, forceHttpBasicAuth, gcpServiceAccountKey, githubAppEnterpriseBaseUrl.
- **Update a Argo CD write repository by ID** (Update). Updates a write repository configuration. Returns: bearerToken, connectionState, depth, enableLfs, enableOCI, forceHttpBasicAuth, gcpServiceAccountKey, githubAppEnterpriseBaseUrl. Required: id.
- **Argo CD write repositories list 2** (List). Returns a repository or its write credentials. Returns: bearerToken, connectionState, depth, enableLfs, enableOCI, forceHttpBasicAuth, gcpServiceAccountKey, githubAppEnterpriseBaseUrl. Required: repo.
- **Delete a Argo CD write repository by ID** (Delete). Deletes a write repository from the configuration. Required: id.
- **Get single Argo CD write repository by ID** (Get). Returns a repository or its write credentials. Returns: bearerToken, connectionState, depth, enableLfs, enableOCI, forceHttpBasicAuth, gcpServiceAccountKey, githubAppEnterpriseBaseUrl. Required: id.
- **Create a Argo CD write repositorie validate** (Create). Validates write access to a repository with given parameters. Required: repo.
- **List all Argo CD versions** (List). Version returns version information of the API server. Returns: BuildDate, Compiler, ExtraBuildInfo, GitCommit, GitTag, GitTreeState, GoVersion, HelmVersion.
- **List all Argo CD application events** (List). Returns a list of event resources. Returns: items, metadata. Required: name.
- **List all Argo CD application logs** (List). Returns stream of log entries for the specified pod. Pod. Returns: error, result. Required: name.
- **List all Argo CD stream application resource trees** (List). Watch returns stream of application resource tree. Returns: error, result. Required: application_name.
- **Create a Argo CD resource actions v 2** (Create). Runs a resource action with parameters. Returns: metadata, operation, spec, status. Required: name.
- **List all Argo CD applicationset events** (List). Returns a list of event resources. Returns: items, metadata. Required: name.
- **List all Argo CD project events** (List). Returns a list of project events. Returns: items, metadata. Required: name.