bagel

Bagel by Extelligence lets you ask questions about robotics, drone, and IoT data in plain English. Every calculation over your message data is DuckDB SQL, not model guesswork, and Bagel shows you the query so you can audit it.

Is my IMU sensor overheating?

Bagel also has an intelligent edge data reduction pipeline: describe an event and Bagel runs the detection on the robot, keeping the windows that matter and dropping the rest. An MCP server puts all of it in your LLM's hands: Claude Code, Gemini, Cursor, or a fully local model.

Bagel was the first MCP server to ship a real analysis toolkit for robotics data, and it keeps the LLM where it belongs: in front of your logs, never in your robot's control loop.

📦 Install

Bagel is on PyPI as bagel-mcp. No Docker and no ROS install needed for recorded data.

Claude Code, one line (needs uv):

claude mcp add bagel -- uvx --from "bagel-mcp[ros]" bagel-mcp --transport stdio

pip, into any Python 3.10 to 3.12 environment:

pip install "bagel-mcp[ros]"

Then point your MCP client at the bagel-mcp command it installed (setup for Claude Desktop, Cursor and Codex is in the Quickstart). Open your agent and ask:

Summarize the bag "~/logs/run_42.mcap".

The ros extra reads ROS 1 and ROS 2 bags. Flight logs, CAN / MDF4, live MQTT and the rest are extras too. Live ROS robots (rosbridge) and fleet/edge pipelines run in Docker.

🥯 Key Features

• Ask in plain language: No deep domain expertise needed.
• Transparent calculations: Deterministic SQL queries. No black-box LLM math.
• Natural-language pipelines: "Keep 10s around every hard brake, drop the rest": one sentence becomes an auditable pipeline: previewed before a byte is written, then run once, across a fleet, or standing at the edge.
• Broad LLM support: Claude Code, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, Grok Build, Grok Bot, and more.
• Installs your way: pip / uvx for recorded data, Docker images for live robots and the edge.
• Extensible capabilities: Bagel can learn new tricks.
• Wide format coverage: Missing your data format? Open a ticket.

🥯 Try it in 60 seconds

No MCP client, no LLM, no config: run the same deterministic checks against a bundled sample log and get a robot-health report card straight to your terminal.

docker run -it --rm ghcr.io/extelligence-ai/bagel/px4:latest demo

sample.ulg - 41.5s, 2018 messages, 77 topics

Power      ⚠️  min 21.07V, largest drop 2.37V at ~t=+4.8s, end 23.45V (battery_status_0)
IMU        ✅  accel_z stddev 1.6x the log baseline at ~t=+36.8s (sensor_combined_0)
GPS        —  skipped: no GPS topic
Data gaps  ✅  no gap > 1.05x median interval (checked battery_status_0, sensor_combined_0)
...

The ROS2 images (ros2-kilted, ros2-jazzy, ros2-iron, ros2-humble) run demo the same way, against a lighter bundled sample (px4 is the one that ships with a flight log rich enough to show every check). Point it at your own log with demo /path/to/log (mount it with -v first), or keep reading for the full MCP setup below.

⚡️ Quickstart

Two ways to run Bagel. Pick by data:

🐍 Install with uvx or pip (no Docker)

Your MCP client launches the server itself over stdio, so there is nothing to start or keep running. Pick uvx (nothing to manage: it fetches and caches Bagel on first use) or pip (a normal install you control).

With uvx. Install uv (curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh on macOS and Linux), then:

Claude Code:

claude mcp add bagel -- uvx --from "bagel-mcp[ros]" bagel-mcp --transport stdio

Any client that takes a JSON MCP config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, ...):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bagel": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "bagel-mcp[ros]", "bagel-mcp", "--transport", "stdio"]
    }
  }
}

With pip. Python 3.10 to 3.12; a virtual environment keeps it tidy:

python3 -m venv ~/.bagel-venv
~/.bagel-venv/bin/pip install "bagel-mcp[ros]"
claude mcp add bagel -- ~/.bagel-venv/bin/bagel-mcp --transport stdio

For a JSON config, use the full path as the command: "command": "/Users/you/.bagel-venv/bin/bagel-mcp", "args": ["--transport", "stdio"].

Apple Silicon Macs: use an ARM Python, not an Intel Python running through Rosetta. Check with python3 -c "import platform; print(platform.machine())"; it should print arm64. If it prints x86_64, create a separate native environment:

uv venv --seed --python cpython-3.12-macos-aarch64-none ~/.bagel-arm-venv
~/.bagel-arm-venv/bin/python -m pip install "bagel-mcp[ros]"
claude mcp add bagel -- ~/.bagel-arm-venv/bin/bagel-mcp --transport stdio

This avoids the cryptography source build: upstream removed Intel macOS support in version 49. Fresh installs currently select MCP 1.30.0, whose dependency chain is bagel-mcp → mcp → pyjwt[crypto] → cryptography. This applies to the base package and bagel-mcp[ros], even without the upload extra. On an Intel Mac, if installation fails while building cryptography, use the Docker path below. Do not downgrade cryptography to restore an old wheel; its older releases miss security fixes.

Format support comes as extras, so that a PX4 user never downloads the automotive parsers. List the ones you need, comma-separated: uvx --from "bagel-mcp[ros,px4,automotive]" bagel-mcp --transport stdio, or pip install "bagel-mcp[ros,px4,automotive]". If you ask about a format whose extra is missing, Bagel's error names the exact command to add it.

MCAP, CSV / JSON / Parquet, ROS text logs, PlotJuggler / Lichtblick / LeRobot exports and S3 upload need no extra.

PX4 log parsing does not require Git. Git and network access are used only for optional field descriptions; pass download_description: false in the tool's args to skip fetching those descriptions.

To upgrade, repeat the extras you installed with, so their dependencies update too. uvx picks up new releases on its own (force it with uvx --refresh --from "bagel-mcp[ros,px4]" bagel-mcp --help); with pip, run pip install -U "bagel-mcp[ros,px4]", using your own list of extras.

Then prompt, pointing at your own file:

Summarize the metadata of the MCAP bag "~/logs/run_42.mcap".

[!NOTE] No ROS installation is needed for bag files: the ros extra reads and writes them with the pure-Python rosbags library (sqlite3 and MCAP storage, zstd / bz2 / lz4 compression, message types from the bag itself or from the bundled interface definitions of every distro from Humble on). Live ROS topics (rosbridge) and the fleet/edge runtime stay with Docker.

🐳 Run with Docker (live robots, fleet and edge, distro-specific ROS)

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