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Desktop Commander

MCP server for terminal shell commands, process management, and file operations across text, coding, PDF, DOCX, Excel, images, and structured data

10,294 on GitHubby Desktop Commanderv0.2.0MITupdated today
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Plugin desktop-commander from marketplace desktop-commander in wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP. Commands read from the repo's manifest — today.

This plugin runs code on your machine — it starts local MCP servers. The exact commands are listed below; read them before installing.

What it installs

Skills (6)

  • ai-tools-setup

    Set up, connect, validate, and repair Claude Desktop and MCP servers using Desktop Commander — inspecting and fixing mcp.json / claude_desktop_config.json, getting MCP servers to connect, and diagnosing local AI tooling. Use when a user wants to install, configure, connect, validate, or fix Claude D

  • computer-health-check

    Run a comprehensive, read-only health check on the user's computer and return a scored chat summary with prioritized, plain-English recommendations and safe cleanup suggestions. Use this whenever the user wants to check their computer's health, speed it up, free up / reclaim disk space, find what's

  • desktop-commander-overview

    Use for Desktop Commander MCP capabilities — persistent shells and REPLs, long-running processes, filesystem beyond the workspace, structured files (.xlsx, .docx, .pdf, images) and large local data files such as CSVs, ripgrep search at scale, SSH, or cross-turn state.

  • knowledge-base

    Create and maintain a Markdown knowledge base that any AI agent can read, search, and update. Use when the user wants to start a knowledge base, add or update notes, organize docs/notes for an agent or LLM to consume, build an index of notes, or run a cleanup/maintenance pass on an existing MD knowl

  • obsidian-vault

    Organize Obsidian vaults with MOCs, wikilinks, frontmatter/properties, dashboards, orphan-note checks, and cleanup workflows. Use ONLY when the user explicitly refers to Obsidian — by naming "Obsidian", an Obsidian "vault", or an Obsidian-specific feature such as wikilinks ("[[ ]]"), the Dataview or

  • terminal

    Use Desktop Commander for terminal and command-line work, especially anything that needs a shell whose state persists across turns: Python/Node REPLs, database shells, dev servers and other long-running processes, SSH into remote machines, and Windows PowerShell. Also handles everyday terminal tasks

MCP servers (1)

  • desktop-commander

    runs: npx -y @wonderwhy-er/desktop-commander@latest

View source on GitHub desktopcommander.app

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