What it can do: Desktop Commander

MCP server · wonderwhy-er

What Desktop Commander declares, asks for and runs, according to the marketplaces we read. Runs on your machine: the AI tool starts this npm package locally: @wonderwhy-er/desktop-commander. Tools it declares: 26. As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-11.

This is not a security audit. We list what the marketplaces publish about this plugin: what it declares, what it asks for and what it runs. We do not run or inspect its code, and a verified mark is the marketplace's statement, not ours.

Where it runs

Runs on your machine: the AI tool starts this npm package locally: @wonderwhy-er/desktop-commanderAs declared on: Official MCP Registry, Claude Code: claude-plugins-official, Claude: knowledge-work-plugins.
Runs on your machine, in a container started from this image: mcp/desktop-commanderAs declared on: Docker MCP Catalog.

What it declares

Tools it declares: 26. As declared on: Docker MCP Catalog.

create_directory
edit_block
force_terminate
get_config
get_file_info
get_more_search_results
get_prompts
get_recent_tool_calls
get_usage_stats
give_feedback_to_desktop_commander
interact_with_process
kill_process

Show the remaining 14

list_directory
list_processes
list_searches
list_sessions
move_file
read_file
read_multiple_files
read_process_output
set_config_value
start_process
start_search
stop_search
write_file
write_pdf

Prompts and resources: the marketplaces we read do not publish them.

What it asks for

None of the marketplaces we read lists environment variables for it.

Names only: we keep no values, examples or descriptions of these variables. OAuth scopes and install-time settings are not published by the marketplaces we read.

What it runs besides MCP

Skills: 6 As declared on: Claude Code: claude-plugins-official.

ai-tools-setup
computer-health-check
desktop-commander-overview
knowledge-base
obsidian-vault
terminal

Who answers for it

wonderwhy-er

No marketplace we read marks it or its publisher as verified.
License: MIT.
The repository github.com/wonderwhy-er/desktopcommandermcp belongs to the account the publisher is listed under on Official MCP Registry.

How it has changed

Its tools, settings, hooks and composition have not changed since we started watching it.

In context

Median number of secrets an MCP server asks for on the marketplaces we read: 0.0. This one asks for: 0.
Share of MCP servers that run on a remote server: 63%.

Where it is published and how its figures have moved

Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from the Docker MCP Catalog (desktop.docker.com/mcp/catalog) and Docker Hub. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on 2026-10-11. We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.