⚡ Published on PyPI and compatible with MCP clients that support the stdio transport.

Smart Terminal MCP

A lightweight Model Context Protocol (MCP) server built with FastMCP that enables AI assistants to interact with the local machine through terminal, filesystem, and Python execution tools.

The project was built to explore how MCP enables AI clients to securely communicate with external tools and automate local development workflows.

✨ Features

• Execute terminal commands

• Execute Python code snippets

• Execute Python files

• Read files

• Write files

• Search files using glob patterns

• Search text inside files

• Create folders

• Delete folders

• Lightweight and easy to extend

• Published on PyPI

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Python 3.13+

• FastMCP

• MCP

• setuptools

📦 Installation

Using uv (Recommended)

uv add smart_terminal_mcp

Or run it directly without installing:

uvx smart_terminal_mcp

Using pip

pip install smart_terminal_mcp

🚀 MCP Server Configuration

Add the following configuration to your MCP client:

{
  "smart_terminal": {
    "transport": "stdio",
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": ["smart_terminal_mcp"]
  }
}

Once configured, the server can be used by MCP-compatible AI clients.

📂 Available Tools

📁 Project Structure

smart_terminal_mcp/
│
├── src/
│   └── smart_terminal_mcp/
│       ├── main.py
│       ├── tools.py
│
├── pyproject.toml
├── README.md
└── LICENSE

🎯 Motivation

The goal of this project was to gain hands-on experience with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) by building a practical server that exposes useful local development tools to AI assistants.

It helped me understand:

• MCP architecture

• Tool registration

• Python packaging

• PyPI publishing

• AI tool integration

• Developer workflow automation

🔮 Roadmap

Future improvements include:

• Workspace sandboxing

• Safe command execution

• File rename and copy operations

• Git integration

• Project scaffolding

• Better error handling

• Cross-platform support

• Tool execution logging

⚠️ Disclaimer

This project is intended for educational and development purposes.

Some tools execute commands or modify files on the local machine. Only use this MCP server in trusted environments.

📜 License

MIT License

👨‍💻 Author

Mohd Bilal

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