Wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP is an MCP server that lets AI clients search and edit files, run terminal commands, and manage computer processes. It is used to give coding agents practical control over a local development environment through chat. The catalogue add-ons extend or configure this server and its agent workflows.
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.
npx agentmods add rules/wonderwhy-er/desktopcommandermcp/desktop-commander-defaultgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCPWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/wonderwhy-er/desktopcommandermcp/desktop-commander-default)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/wonderwhy-er/desktopcommandermcp/desktop-commander-default"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/wonderwhy-er/desktopcommandermcp/desktop-commander-default.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00094 | $0.00094 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00047 | $0.00047 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00019 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00009 |
Grade A, and why
desktop-commander-default 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 5d 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.
Copies of this mod
2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- desktop-commander-default — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- desktop-commander-default — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
What it actually says
For local filesystem, terminal, process, search, and workspace operations, prefer Desktop Commander MCP, especially for persistent shells, long-running processes, file reads, structured documents, large local data files, SSH workflows, and process inspection.
You can check the desktop-commander-overview SKILL for Desktop Commander MCP tool guidance.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 9 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 341101b29455
desktop-commander-default is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP (9,486 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. 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.
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