rucio-mcp — one MCP server for the Rucio community

Slides for the Rucio community discussion (Indico: "Rucio Meeting", 2026-07-09) by Giordon Stark (UC Santa Cruz / SCIPP): a 15-minute pitch (12 min talk + 3 min live demo) for converging on a single, community-maintained MCP server for Rucio instead of per-experiment implementations.

▶ View the deck: https://kratsg.github.io/2026-07-09-rucio-mcp/

The talk covers the parallel MCP efforts (Belle II's PoC by Cédric Serfon, the EIC/ePIC server used by EIC and DUNE, and rucio-mcp), what rucio-mcp provides today, the OAuth bridge and security posture, the hosted multi-experiment deployment at https://rucio-mcp.af.uchicago.edu, and an honest menu of maintenance/governance options for the community to pick from.

What's here

View it

• Online: the GitHub Pages link above (always reflects main).
• Locally: open presentation.html in a browser (reveal.js comes from a CDN, so you need a network connection), or pixi run serve.
• Speaker notes: press S in the browser for speaker view. Every slide has notes, including the demo plan and fallback prompts.
• Backup slides: press the down arrow on the final slide (bridge sequence end-to-end, full tool inventory).

Edit it

pixi install && pixi run install   # one-time: node env + puppeteer/decktape

# after editing presentation.html / styles.css:
pixi run check         # flag any slide whose content exceeds 1280x720
pixi run screenshots   # capture every slide for visual review
pixi run pdf           # export slides.pdf
pixi run edit          # click-to-edit text in the browser, saves back to HTML

Deploy

Pushing to main publishes presentation.html (as index.html) + styles.css to GitHub Pages and stamps the build (<short-sha> · <date> in the bottom-left corner; reads dev locally). One-time setup: repo Settings → Pages → Source: GitHub Actions.

Credits

Slides AI-assisted by Claude (Anthropic). Built with reveal.js. The Belle II / EIC context comes from Cédric Serfon's Belle II report (Nov 2025) and eic/rucio-eic-mcp-server.