v0.2.0

bsctl v0.2.0

Highlights

• Service layer extraction — MCP and CLI share common logic, reducing duplication
• Server-side pagination — --limit and --offset now use Backstage API parameters
• Structured error messages — Backstage JSON errors are parsed into readable messages
• "Why bsctl?" positioning — README explains differentiation vs official tools

Changes

• Extract shared service layer (src/service.rs)
• Server-side pagination via Backstage API limit/offset
• Parse Backstage structured error responses (error.name, error.message)
• Split plugin.rs into plugin/config.rs, plugin/executor.rs, plugin/help.rs
• Reduce OAuth callback polling from 100ms to 1s intervals
• Add 7 MCP integration tests (41 total)
• Add homepage, documentation, readme to Cargo.toml
• Document ${VAR} security warning for config files
• Note serde_yaml_neo fork rationale

v0.1.1

Fix package metadata (repository URL, keywords, description).

v0.1.0

bsctl v0.1.0

A CLI client and MCP server for Backstage, built in Rust.

Features

• Catalog — list, get, register, unregister, refresh, facets with filtering, sorting, and pagination
• Search — full-text search across the catalog
• Templates — describe parameter schemas, run with --wait, cancel tasks
• Auth — guest login, OAuth browser flow, static tokens, JWT expiry detection
• Plugins — extend with custom commands via .bsctl/plugins.yaml
• Custom Columns — per-type column views with .bsctl/columns/, auto-generated from entities
• MCP Server — 14 tools for AI agent integration
• Output — table (terminal-width-aware), JSON, jsonpath

Install

cargo install bsctl