desktop-commander

desktop-commander is a plugin for Claude Code from wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP. Its manifest loads nothing; the 6 skills it bundles cost 936 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A local tool server that lets a coding agent use terminal commands, manage running processes, and work with files. It supports text files, code, PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, images, and structured data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run shell commands, start or inspect processes, edit files, and work with documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, images, and structured data.
Why use it?
It removes the need to handle each file type or terminal task manually. It gives one toolset for inspecting, editing, and processing local files and programs.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/wonderwhy-er/desktopcommandermcp/claude
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 6 skills cost 936 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

desktop-commander 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 4d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/claude/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 31 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "desktop-commander",
  "displayName": "Desktop Commander",
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "description": "MCP server for terminal commands, process management, and file operations across text files, code, PDF, DOCX, Excel, images, and structured data",
  "author": {
    "name": "Desktop Commander",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "homepage": "https://desktopcommander.app",
  "repository": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "shell",
    "terminal",
    "filesystem",
    "process",
    "documents",
    "pdf",
    "spreadsheet",
    "desktop-commander"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "mcpServers": {
    "desktop-commander": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@wonderwhy-er/desktop-commander@latest"]
    }
  }
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 6 skills travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 936 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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. 4d ago First seen · 31 lines scan A 4109c2f9d1a8

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desktop-commander is a plugin published in the GitHub repository wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP (9,463 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-08-30.