Desktop Commander

Give an agent your terminal, your files, and surgical text edits — on your machine.

Before you connect: what this server would do

A preview derived from this server’s definition — not a live run. Nothing runs and no key is sent until you connect. You run this server on your own machine — FindAgent never runs it.

Tools it can use (24)

get_config
Read the full server config as JSON.
set_config_value
Set one config key, including allowed directories.
start_process
Start a program and detect when it is ready for input.
interact_with_process
Send commands to a running program.
read_process_output
Read output from a running process.
force_terminate
Terminate a running process.
list_sessions
List active process sessions.
list_processes
List processes on the machine.
kill_process
Kill a process by id.
read_file
Read a local file or URL, including Excel and PDF, paginated.
read_multiple_files
Read several files at once.
write_file
Rewrite or append to a file.
write_pdf
Write a PDF file.
create_directory
Create a directory.
list_directory
List a directory.
move_file
Move or rename a file.
start_search
Start a streaming search by file name or content.
get_more_search_results
Page through search results.
stop_search
Stop a running search.
list_searches
List running searches.
get_file_info
Metadata for one file.
edit_block
Targeted text replacement, including Excel cell ranges.
get_usage_stats
Usage statistics for the server.
get_recent_tool_calls
Recent tool calls made through the server.

What FindAgent checked

It passed an automated security scan and a human review before it was published here.
You run this server yourself, so FindAgent’s run-time protections — the prompt-injection deny-list on what you send, the secret-leak scan on every result, the credential-to-host binding, the approval gates — do not apply to what you send or receive here.

How FindAgent keeps servers safe

Run locally

This MCP server runs on your own machine — FindAgent only points you at it. Run the command below, then add it to your MCP client. Nothing is hosted or proxied on our side.

terminal

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

Add it to your MCP client

Paste this into your client config (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or a Cursor mcp.json), then restart the client.

mcp client config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "desktop-commander-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@wonderwhy-er/desktop-commander@latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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