MCP File System Server

MCP server providing file system operations. Supports navigation, reading, writing, analyzing files and command execution.

Tools

File and Directory Operations

• ls(path) - List directory contents

• cd(path) - Change working directory (supports home directory expansion with ~)

• read_file(path) - Read file contents

• write_file(path, content) - Write content to a file

• mkdir(path) - Create directory

• rm(path) - Remove file or empty directory

• rmdir(path) - Remove directory and contents recursively

• cp(src, dst) - Copy file or directory

• mv(src, dst) - Move file or directory

Editing and Searching

• edit_file(path, changes) - Apply multiple search/replace operations to a file, where changes is a list of (search_text, replace_text) tuples

• grep(pattern, path) - Search for regex pattern in file(s)

Analysis

• summary(path) - Generate summary of Python (.py) and Markdown (.md) files:

  • Python: Lists functions and classes

  • Markdown: Lists headers (lines starting with #)

Batch Operations

• read_files(paths) - Read multiple files, returns dict mapping paths to contents

• summarize(paths) - Generate summaries for multiple files, returns dict mapping paths to summaries

Project Navigation

• work_on(path) - Change to directory, list its contents, and get the notes from CLAUDE.md. Useful for getting familiar with a project at the start of a chat

Code Quality

• ruff_check(paths) - Run ruff linter on specified files

• ruff_format(paths) - Format files using ruff

Command Execution

• shell_command(command, args=None, cmdline=None, timeout=30) - Run shell commands and capture their output

  ⚠️ Security Warning: This tool allows arbitrary command execution on the host system. Always inspect and validate commands before allowing them to run, especially if the input source is untrusted.