Skill
DesktopCommanderMCP
This is MCP server for Claude that gives it terminal control, file system search and diff file editing capabilities
Features
- ✓**Remote AI Control** - Use Desktop Commander from ChatGPT, Claude web, and other AI services via [Remote MCP](https://mcp.desktopcommander.app)
- ✓**File Preview UI** - Visual file previews in Claude Desktop with rendered markdown, inline images, expandable content, and quick "Open in folder" access
- ✓**Enhanced terminal commands with interactive process control**
- ✓**Execute code in memory (Python, Node.js, R) without saving files**
- ✓**Instant data analysis - just ask to analyze CSV/JSON/Excel files**
- ✓**Native Excel file support** - Read, write, edit, and search Excel files (.xlsx, .xls, .xlsm) without external tools
- ✓**PDF support** - Read PDFs with text extraction, create new PDFs from markdown, modify existing PDFs
- ✓**DOCX support** - Read, create, edit, and search Word documents (.docx) with surgical XML editing and markdown-to-DOCX conversion
- ✓**Interact with running processes (SSH, databases, development servers)**
- ✓Execute terminal commands with output streaming
- ✓Command timeout and background execution support
- ✓Process management (list and kill processes)
- ✓Session management for long-running commands
- ✓**Process output pagination** - Read terminal output with offset/length controls to prevent context overflow
- ✓Server configuration management:
- ✓Full filesystem operations:
- ✓Code editing capabilities:
- ✓Comprehensive audit logging:
- ✓Security hardening:
Installation Guide
Once Desktop Commander is installed and Claude Desktop is restarted, you're ready to supercharge your Claude experience!*"Help me get started with Desktop Commander"*
*"Show me Desktop Commander examples"*
*"What can I do with Desktop Commander?"* 📁 Organizing your Downloads folder automatically
📊 Analyzing CSV/Excel files with Python
⚙️ Setting up GitHub Actions CI/CD
🔍 Exploring and understanding codebases
🤖 Running interactive development environments
🚀 New User Onboarding
Desktop Commander includes intelligent onboarding to help you discover what's possible:
For New Users: When you're just getting started (fewer than 10 successful commands), Claude will automatically offer helpful getting-started guidance and practical tutorials after you use Desktop Commander successfully.
Request Help Anytime: You can ask for onboarding assistance at any time by simply saying:
Claude will then show you beginner-friendly tutorials and examples, including: