Filesystem MCP Server
- File Systems
Go server implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP) for filesystem operations.
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
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Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
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No resources | |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
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Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
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Filesystem MCP Server
Go server implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP) for filesystem operations.
Features
- Read/write files
- Create/list/delete directories
- Move files/directories
- Search files
- Get file metadata
Note: The server will only allow operations within directories specified via args.
API
Resources
file://system: File system operations interface
Tools
- read_file
- Read complete contents of a file
- Input:
path(string) - Reads complete file contents with UTF-8 encoding
- read_multiple_files
- Read multiple files simultaneously
- Input:
paths(string[]) - Failed reads won't stop the entire operation
- write_file
- Create new file or overwrite existing (exercise caution with this)
- Inputs:
path(string): File locationcontent(string): File content
- create_directory
- Create new directory or ensure it exists
- Input:
path(string) - Creates parent directories if needed
- Succeeds silently if directory exists
- list_directory
- List directory contents with [FILE] or [DIR] prefixes
- Input:
path(string)
- move_file
- Move or rename files and directories
- Inputs:
source(string)destination(string)
- Fails if destination exists
- search_files
- Recursively search for files/directories
- Inputs:
path(string): Starting directorypattern(string): Search pattern
- Case-insensitive matching
- Returns full paths to matches
- get_file_info
- Get detailed file/directory metadata
- Input:
path(string) - Returns:
- Size
- Creation time
- Modified time
- Access time
- Type (file/directory)
- Permissions
- list_allowed_directories
- List all directories the server is allowed to access
- No input required
- Returns:
- Directories that this server can read/write from
Usage with Claude Desktop
Install the server
Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:
License
This MCP server is licensed under the MIT License. This means you are free to use, modify, and distribute the software, subject to the terms and conditions of the MIT License. For more details, please see the LICENSE file in the project repository.
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