This post walks through dokku-mcp, a FastMCP server that talks to Dokku over SSH, returns structured results, and ships with guardrails so “convenient” does not become “unrestricted shell access.”
Name the problem before reaching for the solution. The device did not crash. It entered a state where it could not make progress, and nothing outside the firmware had authority to change that. Silent failure. No recovery path.
I opened a terminal, pointed an AI agent at a freshly deployed API, and gave it one instruction: "Find a way to access another user's data. You have no credentials and no documentation".
