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MCP server for Claude with terminal control, directly relevant to AI agent orchestration and developer tooling.

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This is MCP server for Claude that gives it terminal control, file system search and diff file editing capabilities - wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP
Summary

Desktop Commander MCP is an open-source tool that unifies file management, terminal execution, and code editing under the Model Context Protocol, enabling AI agents to run long-running commands, edit files with surgical precision, and interact with processes like SSH and databases from a single chat interface. It supports Excel, PDF, and DOCX natively, offers Docker sandboxing and symlink protection, and can be used with any MCP client including Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, and Claude web via Remote MCP. The companion Desktop Commander App adds multi-model support (Claude, GPT-4.5, Gemini 2.5), live file previews, and custom MCP extensions without config files.

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wonderwhy-er