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WISTX provides a comprehensive set of MCP tools that give your AI coding assistant access to DevOps infrastructure knowledge, compliance requirements, pricing data, and best practices.
WISTX now provides 6 unified tools that consolidate multiple capabilities into single, easy-to-use interfaces. These are the recommended tools for new integrations.

wistx_search_code

🎯 UNIFIED code search tool. Combines semantic search, regex search, and code examples into one tool.Modes:
  • search_mode="semantic" - Natural language search on your indexed repos
  • search_mode="regex" - Pattern matching with 40+ templates
  • search_mode="examples" - WISTX curated production-ready code
Replaces: wistx_search_codebase, wistx_regex_search, wistx_get_devops_infra_code_examples

wistx_infrastructure

🎯 UNIFIED infrastructure tool. All infrastructure operations in one place.Actions: init_project, design_project, review_project, optimize_project, analyze, design, validate, integrate, create, update, upgrade, backup, restore, monitor, get_existing, discoverReplaces: wistx_design_architecture, wistx_manage_infrastructure_lifecycle, wistx_manage_infrastructure, wistx_get_existing_infrastructure, wistx_discover_cloud_resources

wistx_context

🎯 UNIFIED context management. Filesystem navigation and conversation context.Actions:
  • list_files, read_file - Navigate indexed repositories
  • save, search, get, list_saved - Manage saved contexts
Replaces: wistx_list_filesystem, wistx_read_file_with_context, wistx_save_context_with_analysis, wistx_search_contexts_intelligently

wistx_index

🎯 UNIFIED indexing tool. Index repositories, docs, and manage resources.Actions:
  • repository - Index GitHub repos
  • content - Index documentation/files
  • list, status, delete - Manage indexed resources
Replaces: wistx_index_repository, wistx_index_resource, wistx_manage_resources

wistx_research

🎯 UNIFIED research tool. Deep research across knowledge base and web.Sources:
  • knowledge_base - Internal KB with cross-domain insights
  • web - General web search
  • security - CVEs, advisories
  • all - Combined search
Replaces: wistx_research_knowledge_base, wistx_web_search

wistx_packages

🎯 UNIFIED packages tool. Search and read DevOps resources.Actions:
  • search - Search packages, tools, services, docs
  • read_file - Read package source files
Searches PyPI, npm, Terraform Registry, Helm, and more.Replaces: wistx_search_devops_resources, wistx_read_package_file

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Standalone Tools

These tools have unique functionality and are not consolidated:

wistx_get_compliance_requirements

Get compliance requirements for infrastructure resources (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, CIS, SOC2, NIST, ISO-27001, GDPR, FedRAMP).

wistx_calculate_infrastructure_cost

Industry-leading FinOps: Calculate infrastructure costs with advanced optimization including Spot instance recommendations (60-70% savings), Reserved Instance/Savings Plans guidance (31-58% savings), rightsizing suggestions, and real-time code generation guidance. Exceeds tools like Infracost by providing recommendations during code generation, not just at PR level.

wistx_troubleshoot_issue

Troubleshoot infrastructure issues with AI-powered diagnostics and solutions.

wistx_generate_documentation

Generate documentation for infrastructure code with compliance, security, and cost analysis.

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Legacy Tools Reference

The following tools are deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please use the unified tools above instead.

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Core Tools

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Compliance & Security

Get Compliance Requirements

Get detailed compliance requirements for infrastructure resources. Supports PCI-DSS, HIPAA, CIS, SOC2, NIST-800-53, ISO-27001, GDPR, FedRAMP, and more. Returns specific controls, remediation guidance, code examples, and verification procedures.Tool: wistx_get_compliance_requirementsUse cases:
  • Check compliance requirements for AWS/GCP/Azure resources (RDS, S3, EC2, Lambda, EKS, etc.)
  • Get remediation guidance and code snippets
  • Verify compliance procedures
  • Filter by severity (CRITICAL, HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW)
  • Generate compliance reports automatically

Web Search

General web search tool for DevOps, infrastructure, compliance, FinOps, and SRE information. Provides unified web search with optional security search capabilities (CVEs, advisories). Default search type is general web search, with security search as an option.Tool: wistx_web_searchUse cases:
  • Search for general DevOps and infrastructure information
  • Find security advisories and CVEs (when using security search type)
  • Get real-time web information
  • Filter by resource type and cloud provider
  • Filter by severity for security searches
  • Search across DevOps, infrastructure, compliance, FinOps, and SRE domains

Regex Search

Search user’s indexed codebase using regex patterns. Perfect for security audits, compliance checks, and code analysis. Supports 40+ pre-built templates (secrets, API keys, credentials, compliance violations, Terraform/Kubernetes resources, etc.) or custom regex patterns.Tool: wistx_regex_searchUse cases:
  • Find secrets and API keys using pre-built templates (api_key, password, aws_access_key, github_token, etc.)
  • Security audits with pattern matching
  • Compliance checks for violations (unencrypted_storage, public_access, no_mfa, etc.)
  • Code analysis (terraform_resource, kubernetes_secret, function_definition, etc.)
  • Custom pattern matching with regex (up to 10,000 characters)
  • Filter by code type, cloud provider, and file types
  • Configure regex options (case-sensitive, multiline, dotall)
  • Include surrounding code context (0-10 lines, configurable)
  • Maximum 1,000 results per search with timeout support

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Infrastructure & Cost Management (Advanced FinOps)

Calculate Infrastructure Cost

Industry-leading FinOps tool that exceeds traditional cost calculators. Get monthly/annual costs with advanced optimization recommendations during code generation - before infrastructure is deployed.Tool: wistx_calculate_infrastructure_costAdvanced FinOps Features:
  • Spot Instance Recommendations: 60-70% savings with workload suitability analysis, fallback strategies, and allocation recommendations
  • Reserved Instance/Savings Plans Guidance: 31-58% savings with term and payment option analysis
  • Rightsizing Recommendations: Instance type suggestions based on workload analysis
  • Code Generation Guidance: Real-time recommendations for Terraform/CDK code
  • Budget Integration: Check against configured budgets before deployment
Use cases:
  • Calculate costs for AWS/GCP/Azure resources
  • Get Spot instance recommendations with risk analysis
  • Receive RI/Savings Plans guidance for production workloads
  • Get rightsizing suggestions based on workload type
  • Real-time cost optimization during code generation

Get DevOps Infrastructure Code Examples

Search infrastructure code examples from curated repositories. Supports 32+ code types including Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana), and more. Returns production-ready code examples with metadata, compliance analysis, and cost estimates.Tool: wistx_get_devops_infra_code_examplesUse cases:
  • Find production-ready code examples for infrastructure resources
  • Search by code type (terraform, kubernetes, docker, github_actions, etc.)
  • Filter by cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Filter by compliance standards (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC2, etc.)
  • Get code examples with quality scores and best practices
  • Find examples that implement specific compliance controls
  • Search across 100K+ curated repositories with 200+ stars

Get Existing Infrastructure

Get existing infrastructure context for a repository. Returns cost analysis, compliance status, and recommendations based on indexed repository data. Use this when coding agents need to understand existing infrastructure before creating new resources.Tool: wistx_get_existing_infrastructureUse cases:
  • Understand existing infrastructure before creating new resources
  • Get cost analysis for indexed repositories
  • Check compliance status
  • Get recommendations for improvements

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Virtual Filesystem & Context Management (NEW)

List Filesystem

Navigate your indexed repositories with infrastructure-aware filesystem views. Browse directory structures, filter by infrastructure type (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker), and view files grouped by compliance, costs, or security.Tool: wistx_list_filesystemUse cases:
  • Navigate repository structure like a filesystem
  • View files grouped by infrastructure type
  • Filter by compliance status
  • Filter by cost ranges
  • Filter by security status
  • Infrastructure-aware directory navigation

Read File with Context

Read specific files from your indexed repositories with rich infrastructure context. Includes dependencies, compliance controls, cost estimates, and security issues automatically.Tool: wistx_read_file_with_contextUse cases:
  • Read files with full infrastructure context
  • See dependencies (direct, transitive, reverse)
  • View compliance controls automatically
  • Get cost estimates for resources
  • Check security issues
  • Line-range reading for large files

Save Context with Analysis

Save conversation, architecture designs, code reviews, or any infrastructure-related context persistently. Automatically analyzes compliance, costs, and security.Tool: wistx_save_context_with_analysisUse cases:
  • Save important conversations
  • Persist architecture designs
  • Store code review findings
  • Keep troubleshooting sessions
  • Build organizational knowledge base
  • Automatic compliance/cost/security analysis

Search Contexts Intelligently

Search your saved contexts with infrastructure-aware filters. Find conversations, designs, or reviews by compliance standards, cost ranges, security scores, or infrastructure types.Tool: wistx_search_contexts_intelligentlyUse cases:
  • Find past conversations
  • Search architecture designs
  • Filter by compliance standards
  • Filter by cost ranges
  • Filter by security scores
  • Multi-faceted context search

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Infrastructure Management

Manage Infrastructure

Manage infrastructure lifecycle for Kubernetes clusters and multi-cloud resources. Handles creation, updates, upgrades, backups, monitoring, and optimization.Tool: wistx_manage_infrastructureUse cases:
  • Create Kubernetes clusters and multi-cloud resources
  • Update and upgrade infrastructure
  • Backup and restore operations
  • Monitor and optimize resources
  • Enforce compliance standards

Discover Cloud Resources

Discover existing cloud resources from AWS accounts and generate Terraform import context. Uses secure cross-account access (STS AssumeRole with External ID) to discover resources that can be imported into Terraform management.Tool: wistx_discover_cloud_resourcesUse cases:
  • Discover existing AWS resources (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, etc.)
  • Generate Terraform import context with dependency resolution
  • Get import order and Terraform import commands
  • Filter already-managed resources using Terraform state
  • Enrich with compliance, pricing, and best practices
  • Generate infrastructure diagrams
  • Multi-region resource discovery
  • Filter by resource types and tags
  • Auto-retrieve saved connections (no credentials needed after setup)

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Knowledge & Research

Research Knowledge Base

Deep research tool for DevOps, infrastructure, compliance, FinOps, and platform engineering knowledge. Searches internal knowledge base and optionally includes real-time web search for comprehensive coverage. Use for comprehensive research queries about best practices, patterns, strategies, guides, and cross-domain insights.Tool: wistx_research_knowledge_baseUse cases:
  • Comprehensive research queries (minimum 10 characters)
  • Best practices and patterns
  • Cross-domain insights
  • Filter by domains (compliance, finops, devops, infrastructure, security, architecture, cloud, automation, platform, sre)
  • Filter by content types (guide, pattern, strategy, checklist, reference, best_practice)
  • Output formats: structured, markdown (default), executive_summary
  • Include or exclude cross-domain relationships

Search Codebase

Search user’s indexed codebase including repositories, documentation, and documents. Semantic search with AI analysis. Returns explanations, code snippet analysis, pattern detection, and recommendations.Tool: wistx_search_codebaseUse cases:
  • Search through your indexed repositories
  • Find code examples and patterns
  • Get AI-analyzed results with explanations
  • Filter by repository, resource type, file type, code type, and cloud provider
  • Include source code snippets in results

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Indexing & Resource Management

Index Repository

Index a GitHub repository for user-specific search. Supports both public and private repositories. For public repositories, no GitHub token is needed. For private repositories, the system automatically uses your connected GitHub OAuth token (set up during signup).Tool: wistx_index_repositoryUse cases:
  • Index your GitHub repositories (public or private)
  • Make your codebase searchable
  • Support for private repositories with OAuth
  • Customize include/exclude patterns for DevOps-focused indexing
  • Add custom names, descriptions, and tags

Index Resource

Index content (documentation website or document file) for user-specific search. Unified tool that handles both website crawling and single file indexing. Automatically detects content type based on URL/file extension or explicit content_type parameter. Supports documentation websites, PDFs, DOCX, Markdown (md), and TXT files.Tool: wistx_index_resourceUse cases:
  • Index documentation websites (with URL pattern filtering)
  • Index PDFs and DOCX documents
  • Index Markdown and text files
  • Make documentation searchable
  • Customize include/exclude URL patterns for websites
  • Use content_url for remote files or file_path for local uploads

List Resources

List all indexed resources for the user. See what repositories, documentation, or documents have been indexed. Includes AI-analyzed insights about resource collection with patterns, health analysis, and recommendations.Tool: wistx_list_resourcesUse cases:
  • View all indexed resources
  • Filter by resource type (repository, documentation, document)
  • Filter by status (pending, indexing, completed, failed)
  • Get AI-analyzed insights and recommendations

Check Resource Status

Check indexing status and progress for a specific resource. Monitor indexing progress in real-time.Tool: wistx_check_resource_statusUse cases:
  • Monitor indexing progress
  • Check resource status
  • Get progress updates
  • Track indexing completion

Delete Resource

Delete an indexed resource and all associated knowledge articles. Remove indexed content when no longer needed. Supports deletion by repository URL, documentation URL, document URL, or resource ID.Tool: wistx_delete_resourceUse cases:
  • Remove indexed repositories
  • Clean up old resources
  • Manage storage
  • Delete by URL or resource ID

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Code Search & Analysis

Search Packages

Search DevOps/infrastructure packages across PyPI, NPM, Terraform Registry, Crates.io, Go Modules, Helm Charts, Ansible Galaxy, Maven Central, NuGet, and RubyGems. Supports semantic search (natural language), regex search (pattern matching), and hybrid search. Packages are automatically filtered to DevOps/infrastructure domain.Tool: wistx_search_packagesUse cases:
  • Find packages for compliance and infrastructure patterns
  • Discover infrastructure tools and libraries
  • Search package registries with natural language
  • Use regex patterns for exact matching
  • Filter by registry, domain, and category

Read Package File

Read specific file sections from package source code using SHA256 hash. Get complete context around code snippets found in package searches. No indexing required - fetches packages on-demand from registries.Tool: wistx_search_packages_read_fileUse cases:
  • Get package source code sections
  • Understand package implementation details
  • Review code snippets with context
  • Read up to 200 lines per request

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Architecture & Design

Design Architecture

Design and initialize DevOps/infrastructure/SRE/platform engineering projects. Scaffold new projects with compliance and security built-in. Supports initialize, design, review, and optimize actions.Tool: wistx_design_architectureUse cases:
  • Initialize new projects (Terraform, Kubernetes, DevOps, Platform)
  • Design architectures (microservices, serverless, monolith, event-driven)
  • Review existing architectures
  • Optimize architectures
  • Include compliance standards in design

Manage Integration

Analyze, generate, and validate infrastructure component integrations. Handles networking, security, monitoring, and service integrations. Supports analyze, generate, and validate actions.Tool: wistx_manage_integrationUse cases:
  • Analyze existing integrations
  • Generate integration code
  • Validate integrations
  • Handle networking, security, and monitoring integrations
  • Consider compliance standards

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Troubleshooting & Documentation

Troubleshoot Issue

Diagnose and fix infrastructure/code issues. Analyzes errors, logs, and code to identify root causes, provides fix recommendations, and prevention strategies. Supports Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, CloudFormation, and Ansible.Tool: wistx_troubleshoot_issueUse cases:
  • Diagnose errors and issues
  • Fix infrastructure problems
  • Get troubleshooting guidance
  • Analyze error messages and logs
  • Get prevention strategies

Generate Documentation

Generate comprehensive documentation and reports. Creates architecture diagrams, runbooks, compliance reports, security reports, cost reports, API documentation, and deployment guides. Supports Markdown, PDF, HTML, and JSON formats.Tool: wistx_generate_documentationUse cases:
  • Generate architecture diagrams
  • Create runbooks
  • Generate compliance reports
  • Create security and cost reports
  • Generate API documentation and deployment guides

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Tool Categories

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By Function

  • wistx_get_compliance_requirements - Get compliance requirements with remediation guidance
  • wistx_regex_search - Security audits and pattern matching with pre-built templates

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Getting Started

Ready to use these tools? Here’s how:
1

Install WISTX MCP

Follow our Installation Guide to set up WISTX for your coding agent.
2

Get Your API Key

Sign up at wistx.ai/api-key to get your API key. You’ll need this for authentication.
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Start Using Tools

Ask your AI assistant questions like:
  • “What compliance requirements do I need for a PCI-DSS compliant RDS instance?”
  • “Calculate the cost for an EKS cluster with 3 m5.large nodes”
  • “Index my GitHub repository for search”
  • “Search my codebase for Terraform resources”

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