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.

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

Provides high-performance text search capabilities by wrapping ripgrep, enabling powerful file exploration, pattern matching, and content discovery across local filesystems.

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

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

Integrates Google Drive and Sheets functionality for file operations and spreadsheet data manipulation.

Converts natural language search queries like 'email addresses' or 'TODO comments' into regex patterns and executes grep operations with built-in pattern recognition for common searches including emails, URLs, phone numbers, and code constructs.

Provides streaming-based file operations with auto-chunking for memory-efficient handling of large files, including sequential reading, precise line-based editing, batch operations, archive compression, and backup mechanisms with retry logic.

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

Provides direct access to Amazon S3 storage for listing buckets, browsing objects, and retrieving file contents with automatic text extraction from PDFs and other file types.