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Desktop Commander

Desktop Commander v0.2.0

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

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From the developer

License

MIT

Declared components

Skills · Mcp servers

Works with

Claude Code

Description

From the marketplace listing

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

What changed

Oct 27, 2026 · 18:00 UTC

Changed

Web → Id: “wf.69fa2728ef79cf97646850f3” → “directoryPlugin.8d52a3a6-3a2d-4a54-8d1d-e08585a97642”

Changed

Web → Anthropic verified: “false” → “true”

Changed

Web → Made by: “Desktop Commander” → “not provided”

Changed

Web → Subheading: “MCP server for terminal commands, process management, and file operations across text, code, PDF, DOCX, Excel, images...” → “MCP server for terminal commands, process management, and file operations across text, code, PDF, DOCX, Excel, images...”

Changed

Web → Title: “desktop-commander” → “Desktop Commander”

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Oct 3, 2026 · 22:13 UTC

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Keywords

Files & skills

desktop-commander · catalog manifest

Saved declaration

{
  "name": "desktop-commander",
  "author": {
    "name": "Desktop Commander"
  },
  "source": {
    "ref": "main",
    "sha": "75048278f4866f0d8bde26f6f9aa3b8d39dca870",
    "url": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP.git",
    "path": "plugins/claude",
    "source": "git-subdir"
  },
  "category": "productivity",
  "homepage": "https://desktopcommander.app",
  "description": "MCP server for terminal commands, process management, and file operations across text, code, PDF, DOCX, Excel, images, and structured data."
}
desktop-commander · catalog manifest

Saved declaration

{
  "name": "desktop-commander",
  "source": {
    "ref": "main",
    "sha": "1eccc8b09cc09805202a1737fd20d605356c3671",
    "url": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP.git",
    "path": "plugins/claude",
    "source": "git-subdir"
  },
  "homepage": "https://desktopcommander.app/",
  "description": "Desktop Commander gives Claude Code access to a local MCP server for terminal sessions, filesystem work, structured documents, search, process management, and SSH workflows.\n\nWhat it enables:\n- Persistent shell sessions: keep working directory, environment variables, virtualenvs, and running processes alive across tool calls.\n- Long-running processes: start a dev server, watcher, or build in the background and continue working while checking logs or interacting with the process later.\n- Precise file edits: make targeted edits to existing files with exact-match safety checks instead of rewriting whole files.\n- Structured file support: work directly with `.xlsx`, `.docx`, PDFs, images, and large local data files such as CSVs.\n- Search and diagnostics at scale: use ripgrep-backed search, inspect running processes, and manage local workflows from the same session.\n- SSH workflows: connect to remote machines, run diagnostics, tail logs, and continue working in the same session across multiple steps."
}
desktop-commander · catalog manifest

Saved declaration

{
  "name": "desktop-commander",
  "source": {
    "ref": "main",
    "sha": "1eccc8b09cc09805202a1737fd20d605356c3671",
    "url": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP.git",
    "path": "plugins/claude",
    "source": "git-subdir"
  },
  "category": "productivity",
  "homepage": "https://desktopcommander.app",
  "description": "MCP server for terminal commands, process management, and file operations across text, code, PDF, DOCX, Excel, images, and structured data."
}
desktop-commander · catalog manifest

Skills

"./skills/"

Mcp servers

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

Saved declaration

{
  "name": "desktop-commander",
  "author": {
    "name": "Desktop Commander",
    "email": "es@desktopcommander.app"
  },
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "license": "MIT",
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "homepage": "https://desktopcommander.app",
  "keywords": [
    "shell",
    "terminal",
    "filesystem",
    "process",
    "documents",
    "pdf",
    "spreadsheet",
    "desktop-commander"
  ],
  "mcpServers": {
    "desktop-commander": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@wonderwhy-er/desktop-commander@latest"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP",
  "description": "MCP server for terminal commands, process management, and file operations across text files, code, PDF, DOCX, Excel, images, and structured data",
  "displayName": "Desktop Commander"
}

plugin.json observed Nov 6, 2026 · 10:38 UTC. Manifest source ↗

Catalog declarations and available plugin.json metadata are saved. Referenced skills and executable source files are not downloaded or tested. Missing components in a manifest do not prove that the plugin has none.

Installation instructions

Official

/plugin install desktop-commander@claude-plugins-official

Community

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install desktop-commander@claude-community

Knowledge Work

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
/plugin install desktop-commander@knowledge-work-plugins

Claude Code installation documentation

Technical details
Sources
Claude Marketplace · Official · Community · Knowledge Work
First seen
Oct 3, 2026 · 21:29 UTC
Last seen
Nov 7, 2026 · 18:00 UTC
Latest observed change
Oct 27, 2026 · 18:00 UTC
Collection status
Listed
Reported installs
7,023
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Installation counts are source-reported, not independently verified active users. Observation dates are not release dates.

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