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desktop-commander

plugin Documents & office files

Desktop Commander gives Claude Code access to a local MCP server for terminal sessions, filesystem work, structured documents, search, process management, and SSH workflows. What it enables: - Persistent shell sessions: keep working directory, environment variables, virtualenvs, and running processes alive across tool calls. - 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. - Precise file edits: make targeted edits to existing files with exact-match safety checks instead of rewriting whole files. - Structured file support: work directly with `.xlsx`, `.docx`, PDFs, images, and large local data files such as CSVs. - Search and diagnostics at scale: use ripgrep-backed search, inspect running processes, and manage local workflows from the same session. - SSH workflows: connect to remote machines, run diagnostics, tail logs, and continue working in the same session across multiple steps.
Description from the marketplace entry / plugin manifest.

Information source

Copied from the Claude community plugins (Anthropic) catalog (anthropics/claude-plugins-community), maintained by Anthropic (community submissions).

Links are pinned to commit 06ec7b6 (2026-10-13), the version we synced. Not reviewed by us.

Install

Add the marketplace (once, in Claude Code)
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
In a Claude Code session
/plugin install desktop-commander@claude-community
From your shell
claude plugin install desktop-commander@claude-community

Commands follow each host's documentation (Claude Code, Claude Cowork docs). gh skill needs GitHub CLI 2.90 or later and is in public preview.

Listed from Anthropic (community submissions)'s catalog, not reviewed by us. Read the source before installing.

Catalog
Claude community plugins (Anthropic) (claude-community)
Information source
marketplace.json in anthropics/claude-plugins-community
Author
Not stated in the source
Source code
wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP
Homepage
desktopcommander.app/
License
MIT (repository license)
Repository stars
10,127 for wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP
Added to catalog
2026-05-28
Last change
2026-10-25 (last push to the repo)

What it contains

Hosted in an external repository, so contents are not counted here. See the source link.

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