"Applications or tools with full local file system access" matching MCP servers:

MCP server that provides OpenRouter model pricing data, enabling price lookups, trending/cheapest lists, and model searches without an API key.

Provides tools for searching and reading local files, supporting metadata filters, PDF full-text keyword search, and sandboxed file access.

Provides tools to check disk usage and search files by keyword on the local system.

MCP server enabling LLMs to query a local Calibre Content Server for ebook metadata, chapters, and content in HTML or Markdown.

Enables querying the Global Solo Banking Access Index to check which US business banking providers explicitly accept, restrict, or remain silent on applicants from 8 countries, with dated evidence URLs and provenance metadata.

Enables natural-language search over locally indexed files such as markdown, text, images, videos, and PDFs, and retrieves indexed text or media metadata by path. It lets Cursor query a local embedding index built with Gemini and SQLite.

Enables listing, reading, and searching local files and directories through MCP tools.

Enables fast file search on macOS using the native mdfind (Spotlight) command, with support for filtering, regex, sorting, and limiting results.

A read-only MCP server that provides document awareness for agents by parsing local files into structured profiles, blocks, chunks, and search results, enabling agents to understand and cite document content without dealing with raw file formats.

Local-first knowledge system for reasoning agents, exposing facts, evidence, documents, retrieval, and audit history through a thin stdio MCP server.

MCP server that allows AI agents to read, search, summarize, and answer questions about local PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and TXT files through five tools.

Enables users to check whether a chosen university subscribes to a given journal or paper — via search, DOI, journal title, database, and journal-package queries — returning library holdings plus clickable links the user opens themselves. It supports multiple schools through a picker panel and only ever inspects holdings, never downloading full text.

Enables Codex to locate QQ groups by name or number and search group file directories and recent chat attachments by filename, then download selected files through a locally deployed NapCat instance, returning paths, sizes, and SHA-256 hashes.

An MCP server that enables file system search and inspection, including directory listing, regex-based file name and content searches, and reading text, PDF, and DOCX files.

Enables local ChatGPT/OpenAI MCP clients to read files and search within explicitly authorized directories using read-only, policy-constrained tools.

Provides file system access for resume matching through JSON-RPC, enabling semantic search and workflow orchestration with LangGraph.

A file organization MCP server that safely categorizes and manages files in allowed directories by type, with search and analysis capabilities.

Enables AI assistants to access authenticated academic databases via browser sessions, eliminating re-login and password exposure.

Enables intelligent file searching in local directories using natural language queries. Supports searching by file type, filename patterns, and content across multiple formats including PDF, Word, Excel, and text files with AI-powered relevance scoring.

Search local file contents recursively with keyword matching

Enables AI agents to search, read, annotate, and manage a local Zotero library via the Model Context Protocol, with full local storage and no cloud dependency.

MCP server for personal knowledge management providing AI-powered tools for semantic search, audio transcription, image generation, and PPT creation.

MCP server for local web search via SearXNG, providing unlimited queries without API keys or cost, with automatic fallback to public instances.

A local-first document retrieval MCP server that enables AI coding tools like Codex to search private local documents via semantic search and keyword boost, supporting ingestion of PDF, DOCX, TXT, Markdown, and HTML files.

Provides five safe tools (calc, search, model_drift, compare_runs, grade_answer) for arithmetic, keyword search, model drift monitoring, eval comparison, and answer grading against sources, all implemented directly from the MCP spec with zero dependencies.

Enables full-text search and contextual lookup across local DSH session logs, workspace documents, skills, and persona files using an offline SQLite FTS5 index with Chinese bigram tokenization, plus incremental indexing and status statistics.

Provides read-only access to your local Zotero library via the Zotero Local API, enabling search, retrieval, and bibliography generation without API keys.

our ChatGPT and Claude chat history in one local SQLite file, imported from their data exports. Read-only tools to search and read past conversations; no network.

Enables AI assistants to search YouTube, fetch transcripts, and get AI summaries of videos without API keys.

Enables agents to perform local metasearch, scholarly and code/model lookups, and fetch rendered web pages or PDFs as paginated markdown, including stealth browsing and arXiv paper overviews.