safe-filesystem

safe-filesystem is an MCP server for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode from AleBrito124356/mcp-server-cookbook. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A safe-filesystem MCP server configured to access a specified root folder, with writing disabled in the shown setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Connecting an agent to a chosen notes folder for filesystem operations under the configured read-only setting.
Why use it?
It provides controlled filesystem access while limiting changes to files.

MCP server for Claude CodeCodexCursorGemini CLIOpenCode

Written for no agent in particular: it speaks MCP, so any client can run it. Also seen: listed in a Claude config.

One of 5 entries in claude_desktop_config.json upstream. Installing this one merges just its entry into your config; the other 4 are separate, each on its own page.

Good fit Connecting an agent to a chosen notes folder for filesystem operations under the configured read-only setting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add mcp/alebrito124356/mcp-server-cookbook/safe-filesystem
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AleBrito124356/mcp-server-cookbook

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode.

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

safe-filesystem scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

configs/claude_desktop_config.json · 12 lines

What it actually says

{
  "safe-filesystem": {
    "command": "python",
    "args": [
      "C:\\dev\\mcp-server-cookbook\\servers\\safe_filesystem\\server.py"
    ],
    "env": {
      "ROOT_DIR": "C:\\Users\\you\\Documents\\notes",
      "ALLOW_WRITE": "false"
    }
  }
}
Same file

What else claude_desktop_config.json configures

This page is one entry in a file that holds 5. Installing the file brings all of them; each is measured and scanned on its own page.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 12 lines scan A 91a5b4c7894c

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safe-filesystem is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository AleBrito124356/mcp-server-cookbook (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.