generated: '2026-07-21'
method: searched
status: published
source: https://docs.traversal.com/using-traversal/mcp
description: 'Traversal operates an official hosted (remote) MCP server that lets any streamable-http
  MCP client — Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, OpenCode, ChatGPT, Windsurf, VS Code — run investigations
  against a production stack. Over MCP, Traversal acts as a peer agent: the local agent handles code /
  terminal / kubectl while Traversal investigates across metrics, logs, traces, deployments and topology,
  handing executable next steps back. Agent-to-agent calls run in "Lightning mode" (a first pass in ~30s–2min).
  Tool list captured verbatim from the Traversal MCP documentation.'
server:
  name: Traversal
  transport: http
  transport_detail: streamable-http
  url: https://api.prod.traversal.com/mcp/
  auth: api_key
  auth_detail: 'Authorization: Bearer trv_ak_... — an API key generated in the Traversal web app under
    Settings > API keys (app.traversal.com/settings/api-keys).'
  self_hosted_note: Single-tenant SaaS and BYOC deployments use the organization's own API URL + /mcp/.
clients:
- Claude Code
- Claude Desktop
- Cursor
- OpenCode
- ChatGPT
- Windsurf
- VS Code
tools:
- name: investigate
  description: Run a fast first-pass (Lightning mode) investigation, typically 30s–2min. The agent passes
    the incident, what it can access locally, and how focused to be.
- name: follow_up
  description: Continue an investigation using its session_id — drill into findings, verify a hypothesis,
    or feed back evidence the agent gathered locally.
- name: get_investigation
  description: Get the status and report for an investigation, with a ui_url link to the web app.
- name: list_investigations
  description: List recent investigations for your organization.
- name: product_feedback
  description: Send feedback about the MCP experience to the Traversal team.
deployment:
  mode: remote
  endpoint: https://api.prod.traversal.com/mcp/
  verified: probed
  probe: wall
  checked: '2026-08-12'
  source: catalog MCP census