Installs the ToolHive Kubernetes operator via Argo CD, so MCP servers can be declared as MCPServer custom resources (see the mcp-services app). Runs in the toolhive-system namespace.

What it deploys

A multi-source Argo CD Application renders two OCI Helm charts plus this repo's values:

Source	Purpose
`oci://ghcr.io/stacklok/toolhive/toolhive-operator-crds`	CRDs (MCPServer, MCPRegistry, …)
`oci://ghcr.io/stacklok/toolhive/toolhive-operator`	operator Deployment + RBAC
this repo (`ref: values`)	operator Helm values

Both charts share a unified version, pinned via chartVersion in bootstrap/applicationset.yaml (currently 0.28.3). RBAC scope is left cluster (chart default) so the operator can reconcile MCPServers in mcp-services.

Deploy

# validate the operator chart renders with our values
helm template toolhive-operator oci://ghcr.io/stacklok/toolhive/toolhive-operator \
  --version 0.28.3 -n toolhive-system \
  -f manifest/overlays/production/helm-values/values.yaml >/dev/null

# enable bootstrap/config.yaml (enabled: true), commit, push to main, then:
kubectl get pods -n toolhive-system
kubectl get crd | grep toolhive.stacklok.dev

Deploy this app before mcp-services — the MCPServer CRs depend on the CRDs installed here.

Bumping the version

curl -s 'https://api.github.com/repos/stacklok/toolhive/releases?per_page=10' \
  | grep tag_name

Update chartVersion in bootstrap/applicationset.yaml and push. (The CRDs and operator charts are released together under the same version number.)