Project overview
Desktop Commander MCP equips clients such as Claude with local terminal execution, filesystem search and editing, process sessions, long-running commands, and support for formats including Excel, PDF, and DOCX. It can be installed through npx or run in Docker. The server is not itself a security sandbox: allowed-directory settings restrict file tools but do not fully contain terminal commands. Docker isolation and narrowly mounted folders are therefore important when working with untrusted tasks.
Repository facts
- Primary language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Repository updated
- Jul 14, 2026
- Default branch
- main
Resource types
MCP server
Use cases
Software developmentData and analyticsDocument productivity
Protocols & integrations
Model Context Protocol
Capabilities
Code executionFile operationsTool use