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System Locale

URI: system://locale

Configured locale settings (LANG, LC_*).

Example​

Every example below shows the equivalent linuxctl command and the raw MCP JSON-RPC call it resolves to. The raw call always follows the same two-step pattern (see MCP API overview for the full explanation): open an SSE stream to get a one-time POST endpoint, then POST the JSON-RPC request there - the result streams back on the SSE connection.

linuxctl
linuxctl resource system://locale

Output:

Source: /etc/default/locale
LANG=C.UTF-8
curl (raw MCP JSON-RPC)
curl -N -s --cacert mcpd.crt -H "Authorization: Bearer $MCP_TOKEN" https://localhost:9091/sse &
# server sends: event: endpoint / data: /message?session_id=...

curl -s --cacert mcpd.crt -X POST "https://localhost:9091/message?session_id=<from step 1>" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MCP_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": "1", "method": "resources/read", "params": {"uri": "system://locale"}}'

Response:

{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": "35",
"result": {
"contents": [
{
"mimeType": "text/plain",
"text": "Source: /etc/default/locale\nLANG=C.UTF-8",
"uri": "system://locale"
}
]
}
}