ascend-tools 0.5.0

Ascend CLI, SDK, MCP.

ascend-tools

CLI, SDK, and MCP server for the Ascend REST API.

Private preview: ascend-tools is currently in private preview. Contact your Ascend representative to request access via Service Accounts on your Instance.

Install

Pre-built binaries are available for Linux and macOS. Windows users should use Linux/macOS.

uv tool install ascend-tools

Authentication

Set three environment variables (from Ascend UI > Settings > Users > Create Service Account):

export ASCEND_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID="asc-sa-..."
export ASCEND_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY="..."
export ASCEND_INSTANCE_API_URL="https://<instance-name>.api.instance.ascend.io"

CLI

List runtimes:

ascend-tools runtime list

Get a runtime:

ascend-tools runtime get <UUID>

Resume a runtime:

ascend-tools runtime resume <UUID>

Pause a runtime:

ascend-tools runtime pause <UUID>

List flows:

ascend-tools flow list --runtime <UUID>

Run a flow:

ascend-tools flow run <FLOW_NAME> --runtime <UUID>

Run a flow and resume the runtime first if paused:

ascend-tools flow run <FLOW_NAME> --runtime <UUID> --resume

Run a flow with full refresh:

ascend-tools flow run <FLOW_NAME> --runtime <UUID> --spec '{"full_refresh": true}'

List flow runs:

ascend-tools flow list-runs --runtime <UUID>

Get a flow run:

ascend-tools flow get-run <RUN_NAME> --runtime <UUID>

JSON output:

ascend-tools -o json runtime list

Python SDK

from ascend_tools import Client

client = Client()  # reads from env vars
client.list_runtimes()
client.run_flow(runtime_uuid="...", flow_name="sales")

MCP server

Start an MCP server for AI assistants (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.).

Stdio transport (default):

ascend-tools mcp

HTTP transport:

ascend-tools mcp --http --bind 127.0.0.1:8000

Claude Code setup

claude mcp add --transport stdio ascend-tools -- uvx ascend-tools mcp

The Ascend auth env vars are inherited from your shell. Verify with /mcp inside Claude Code. If Claude is launched without your shell env, add vars explicitly:

claude mcp add --transport stdio \
  -e ASCEND_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID="$ASCEND_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID" \
  -e ASCEND_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY="$ASCEND_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY" \
  -e ASCEND_INSTANCE_API_URL="$ASCEND_INSTANCE_API_URL" \
  ascend-tools -- uvx ascend-tools mcp

Codex CLI setup

codex mcp add ascend-tools -- uvx ascend-tools mcp

If Codex is launched without your shell env, add vars explicitly:

codex mcp add \
  --env "ASCEND_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID=$ASCEND_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID" \
  --env "ASCEND_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY=$ASCEND_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY" \
  --env "ASCEND_INSTANCE_API_URL=$ASCEND_INSTANCE_API_URL" \
  ascend-tools -- uvx ascend-tools mcp

Inspect the MCP server config:

codex mcp get ascend-tools --json

List all configured MCP servers:

codex mcp list

Remove the config:

codex mcp remove ascend-tools

The Ascend auth env vars are inherited from your shell when Codex launches the server. If you have stale MCP behavior after updating code, run this once to refresh the uvx cache:

uvx --refresh ascend-tools --version

Tools

Tool	Description
list_runtimes	List runtimes with optional filters
get_runtime	Get a runtime by UUID
resume_runtime	Resume a paused runtime
pause_runtime	Pause a running runtime
list_flows	List flows in a runtime
run_flow	Trigger a flow run (supports resume, full_refresh, components, parameters, etc.)
list_flow_runs	List flow runs with filters
get_flow_run	Get a flow run by name

Skills

Install reference skills for AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Codex, etc.):

ascend-tools skill install --target .claude/skills --all

Available skills: --cli (default), --python, --mcp, --all.