PEBKAC? With beta enabled (I think?), agent can't see MCP feature to access the file system

[elight]

Title says it all. I seem to have the beta features enabled. I turned the flags on in the MCP server UI and restarted.

[kingpanther13]

Need more information than this. What installation method are you running? Do you have custom component installed? For filesystem tools you have to have the second filesystem custom component installed ,it should say in the main parent custom component.

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[elight]

second filesystem custom component

Probably not. I don't know what this is. Did I miss something important in the install instructions?

[kingpanther13]

Well I need to know first what installation method you are using then we can go from there. But to enable beta/filesystem tools you need to have a custom component installed, it's kept separate basically as a friction point because AIs are very prone to wanting to modify files and yaml directly, particularly configuration.yaml, which bypasses many safety features and is often done incorrectly.

[elight]

HACSOn Aug 14, 2026, at 9:44 AM, kingpanther13 ***@***.***> wrote:kingpanther13 left a comment (homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp#2169) Well I need to know first what installation method you are using then we can go from there. But to enable beta/filesystem tools you need to have a custom component installed, it's kept separate basically as a friction point because AIs are very prone to wanting to modify files and yaml directly, particularly configuration.yaml, which bypasses many safety features and is often done incorrectly. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.Triage notifications, keep track of coding agent tasks and review pull requests on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS and Android. Download it today! You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[kingpanther13]

I think you tried to reply by email but all I got was my quoted comment

[kingpanther13]

Oh I see now you put hacs at the top. Ok, so if you are using the custom component when you go to install it on devices and integrations you should see this. You need the yaml and filesystem component installed to be able to use those tools.

[kingpanther13]

I'm going to convert this to a discussion since it appears to be misconfiguration and not a true issue. Please feel free to continue communicating there and I'll help you get it set up, or if you discover an actual issue please feel free to open a new one.