DesktopCommanderMCP

What it is

Desktop Commander is an MCP server that gives Claude Desktop and other MCP clients access to your local machine: running and managing terminal processes, searching files with ripgrep, and making targeted search-and-replace edits. It also reads and writes Excel, PDF, and Word files, runs Python, Node.js, or R code in memory, and keeps a local log of tool calls. Developers and analysts use it to have a chat assistant work directly on their files and shell without paying per-token API costs.