Overview
Desktop Commander MCP unifies command-line power, file operations and process control behind a single MCP interface. Agents can search, read or rewrite files, execute long-running shell commands, analyse data on the fly and even stream REPL sessions—all without direct user scripting.
Key Capabilities
- Interactive terminal sessions – run, monitor and reuse shells; supports SSH, Python, Node REPL and more.
- Comprehensive filesystem tools – recursive search, metadata queries, negative-offset tailing, pattern-based edits.
- Process management – list running tasks, send signals, terminate or background jobs programmatically.
- Dynamic configuration API – query & mutate server settings (timeouts, allowed directories, telemetry flags).
- Docker & Smithery installers – easy setup with auto-update options and cross-OS scripts.
