Feature Overview (aka. Goal Summary)  

An elevator pitch (value statement) that describes the Feature in a clear, concise way.  Complete during New status.

Provide MCP tooling for cert-manager, external secrets operator, and secrets store csi to enable customer to debug issues, get recommendations on which operator to use, and generate deployment plans/manifests for credentials they wish to pull from an external secrets management system

Goals (aka. expected user outcomes)

The observable functionality that the user now has as a result of receiving this feature. Include the anticipated primary user type/persona and which existing features, if any, will be expanded. Complete during New status.

• Supply a mcp server either standalone or contribute to the openshift-mcp-server project for customer consumption.
• customer should be able to connect the above to openshift lightspeed or another generative ai model
• Tooling should assist in areas of:

• • debugging
  • generation of mainfests
  • recommendation of which operator to use

Requirements (aka. Acceptance Criteria):

A list of specific needs or objectives that a feature must deliver in order to be considered complete.  Be sure to include nonfunctional requirements such as security, reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, etc.  Initial completion during Refinement status.

• One strict requirement is security. The mcp server or tooling should adhere to the same level of security as the operators themselves espouse. Creating a tool that can bypass security or potentially create attack vectors defeats the purpose of the operators it is trying to assist customers in using.
• Given how these operators are currently platform unaligned we should consider our release cadences in comparison to openshift-mcp-server, and how feasible contributing to that will be.
• We should ensure that the costs of using this tooling should be lower than the alternative.
  • for example, debugging using secrets management mcp tooling should require fewer tokens than debugging without it. 

Anyone reviewing this Feature needs to know which deployment configurations that the Feature will apply to (or not) once it's been completed.  Describe specific needs (or indicate N/A) for each of the following deployment scenarios. For specific configurations that are out-of-scope for a given release, ensure you provide the OCPSTRAT (for the future to be supported configuration) as well.

Use Cases (Optional):

Include use case diagrams, main success scenarios, alternative flow scenarios.  Initial completion during Refinement status.

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Questions to Answer (Optional):

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Out of Scope

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Background

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Customer Considerations

Provide any additional customer-specific considerations that must be made when designing and delivering the Feature.  Initial completion during Refinement status.

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Documentation Considerations

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Interoperability Considerations

Which other projects, including ROSA/OSD/ARO, and versions in our portfolio does this feature impact?  What interoperability test scenarios should be factored by the layered products?  Initial completion during Refinement status.

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