Desktop Commander MCP
Gives AI assistants terminal control, filesystem search, and diff-based file editing on your machine.
Desktop Commander MCP
Desktop Commander is a Model Context Protocol server that gives AI assistants like Claude terminal control, filesystem search, and diff-based file editing on your local machine.
It lets the agent read, update, and manage files, run and manage terminal processes, and automate multi-step tasks that go beyond in-editor AI tools. Because it runs locally through your MCP client, it can use your existing client subscription instead of separate API token costs.
It is aimed at developers and power users who want an AI assistant that can operate their filesystem and shell to automate real work.
Compromise signals — malicious or tampered code (leaked secrets, backdoors, a dropped executable) — reduce the score, and known dependency CVEs carry a bounded penalty (they warrant review but never QUARANTINE — update the dependency to clear). Other dangerous-by-capability traits are risk surface, expected for some capabilities. Every finding is mapped to its OWASP control below.
Findings mapped to the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications (2025) and the OWASP Machine Learning Security Top 10. Expand any flagged control for the exact findings — compromise reduces the score; expected/risk-surface do not.
The same gate an agent runs before installing (POST /api/v1/trust/desktop-commander-mcp/check). Click a policy:
Consume Desktop Commander MCP programmatically. Authenticate with an API key or session — see Authorize an agent.
# Agents: CHECK BEFORE YOU INSTALL (no auth) — score, grade, level, capability manifest
curl https://ai-supply.store/api/v1/trust/desktop-commander-mcp
# Gate against your org policy (returns { pass, violations })
curl -X POST https://ai-supply.store/api/v1/trust/desktop-commander-mcp/check \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"minGrade":"B","denyPermissions":["shell"],"denyUnknownEgress":true}'
# CLI
npx ai-supply add desktop-commander-mcp
# REST (install → download)
curl -X POST https://ai-supply.store/api/v1/listings/desktop-commander-mcp/install \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AIM_KEY"
# MCP tool
install_listing({ "slug": "desktop-commander-mcp" })OpenAPI spec →Curated mirror — latest upstream source. See the repository for tagged releases.