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Desktop Commander plugin for Claude

What it does

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

Commands

What you can type in Claude after adding this plugin.

  • /desktop-commander:ai-tools-setup

    Set up, connect, validate, and repair Claude Desktop and MCP servers using Desktop Commander — inspecting and fixing mcp.json / claude_desktop_config.json, getting MCP servers to connect, and diagnosing local AI tooli…

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  • /desktop-commander:computer-health-check

    Run a comprehensive, read-only health check on the user's computer and return a scored chat summary with prioritized, plain-English recommendations and safe cleanup suggestions. Use this whenever the user wants to che…

  • /desktop-commander:desktop-commander-overview

    Use for Desktop Commander MCP capabilities — persistent shells and REPLs, long-running processes, filesystem beyond the workspace, structured files (.xlsx, .docx, .pdf, images) and large local data files such as CSVs,…

  • /desktop-commander:knowledge-base

    Create and maintain a Markdown knowledge base that any AI agent can read, search, and update. Use when the user wants to start a knowledge base, add or update notes, organize docs/notes for an agent or LLM to consume,…

  • /desktop-commander:obsidian-vault

    Organize Obsidian vaults with MOCs, wikilinks, frontmatter/properties, dashboards, orphan-note checks, and cleanup workflows. Use ONLY when the user explicitly refers to Obsidian — by naming "Obsidian", an Obsidian "v…

  • /desktop-commander:terminal

    Use Desktop Commander for terminal and command-line work, especially anything that needs a shell whose state persists across turns: Python/Node REPLs, database shells, dev servers and other long-running processes, SSH…

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