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Desktop Commander MCP

Terminal, file editing, and process management for your AI agent.
Last updated July 18, 2026
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Overview

Desktop Commander gives an AI agent direct terminal access, surgical file editing (search-and-replace blocks instead of full rewrites), and process management on your local machine — one of the most widely used local automation MCP servers.

Use cases

Run and monitor long-lived terminal processes from an agent session.
Apply a surgical find-and-replace edit to a large file without rewriting it entirely.
Search a codebase and act on results without leaving the chat interface.

Install

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

FAQ

No — it runs directly via npx on your local machine, though a Docker-based variant is also documented for sandboxed execution.