desktop-commander
PluginMCP server for terminal commands, process management, and file operations across text, code, PDF, DOCX, Excel, images, and structured data.
Install
claude plugin install desktop-commander@claude-plugins-officialWhat is desktop-commander?
MCP server for terminal commands, process management, and file operations across text, code, PDF, DOCX, Excel, images, and structured data.
What's inside
6 bundled components — installing the plugin installs all of them.
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
What this can do
Capabilities declared by the plugin's own components — read straight from their frontmatter, not inferred.
Inherit all session tools
6 components declare no tool restrictions
~1,025 tokens of context used while enabled, before you invoke anything
Trust
91/100 · Excellent2 factors scored below maximum
Documentation
README · ~28 min readDesktop Commander MCP
Search, update, manage files and run terminal commands with AI
Work with code and text, run processes, and automate tasks, going far beyond other AI editors - while using host client subscriptions instead of API token costs.
🖥️ Try the Desktop Commander App (Beta)
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