File System Access

Desktop Commander

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Desktop Commander MCP transforms Claude Desktop into a powerful AI assistant for managing files, running terminal commands, and editing code with precision across your entire system. It supports in-memory code execution, interactive process control, advanced search and replace, plus comprehensive filesystem operations including reading from URLs and negative offset file reads. With detailed audit and fuzzy search logging, it enables efficient automation, data analysis, and multi-project workflows—all without extra API costs. Designed for developers seeking smarter automation, it enhances productivity by integrating all essential development tools into a single, intelligent chat interface.

Provides secure, controlled filesystem operations within a project's root directory, enabling safe file listing, reading, writing, and searching with robust path validation.

Securely extracts text, metadata, and page information from PDF files within a project directory using pdfjs-dist for both local files and remote URLs.

Integrates with YouTube using yt-dlp to enable downloading of videos and subtitles for content analysis and processing tasks.

Enables interaction with Obsidian vaults for file operations, content search, and metadata management, facilitating note-taking and knowledge base organization.

Provides tools for splitting large JSON files into manageable chunks and merging multiple JSON files into a consolidated output for efficient data processing workflows.

Integrates with Obsidian vaults, enabling natural language queries and updates to notes through secure read/write access.

Provides a bridge between Windows and Linux environments by enabling access to WSL filesystem operations, allowing seamless reading, writing, editing, and management of files within WSL distributions directly from Windows.

Enables AI to write standardized metadata to various image file formats including HEIC and PNG for automated tagging, photo organization, and copyright embedding without switching contexts.

Enables natural language-driven Word document creation, editing, and formatting through a Node.js server that integrates seamlessly with development environments for document automation workflows.

Filesystem

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Read, write, and manipulate local files through a controlled API.

Provides secure, controlled filesystem operations within a project's root directory, enabling safe file listing, reading, writing, and searching with robust path validation.