How do I connect a File Systems MCP server to Claude Desktop or Cursor?

To install a File Systems MCP server, select your desired server from the directory, copy the JSON configuration snippet, and add it to your client config file (such as claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json).

Are File Systems MCP servers free to use?

Yes, all File Systems MCP servers listed in this directory are open-source and free to integrate into compatible Model Context Protocol clients.

86 File Systems MCP Servers

Q: What are File Systems Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers?

Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in the File Systems category allow AI assistants (such as Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and Cline) to connect directly to file systems tools, APIs, and databases without manual copy-pasting.

Discover 86 File Systems MCP servers for AI agents. Browse, compare, and install Model Context Protocol tools that connect Claude, Cursor, and other clients to file systems capabilities. Popular picks include Filesystem, Google Drive MCP, Markitdown.

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Filesystem

Secure file operations with configurable access controls.

Verified

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Google Drive MCP

Secure access to Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Calendar through MCP.

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Markitdown

microsoft

MCP tool access to MarkItDown -- a library that converts many file formats (local or remote) to Markdown for LLM consumption.

5 0 0

Quarkus MCP Servers

filesystem@quarkiverse

A filesystem allowing for browsing and editing files implemented in Java using Quarkus. Available as jar or native image.

5 0 0

MCP Gdrive

isaacphi

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for reading from Google Drive and editing Google Sheets.

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Filesystem Context MCP Server

j0hanz

Read-only MCP server for secure filesystem exploration, searching, and analysis with symlink protection.

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Llm Context.py

cyberchitta

Share code context with LLMs via MCP or clipboard

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Filesystem MCP

MCP Server that enables LLMs to interact with the local filesystem.

1 0 0

Android MCP Server

martingeidobler

21-tool Android device control via ADB — screenshots with compression, UI tree inspection, touch automation, logcat, and compound actions like tap-and-wait. One-command install via npx android-mcp-server.

3 0 0

Fast Filesystem MCP

efforthye

Advanced filesystem operations with large file handling capabilities and Claude-optimized features. Provides fast file reading/writing, sequential reading for large files, directory operations, file search, and streaming writes with backup & recovery.

2 0 0

Octofs

Standalone MCP filesystem tools server — view, edit, shell, workdir.

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Markview

paulhkang94

Native macOS markdown preview app with MCP server. Open and render Markdown files in MarkView directly from AI assistants via npx mcp-server-markview.

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Everything File Search

Lightning-fast Windows file search for AI agents via voidtools Everything's real-time NTFS index

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MCP File Merger

exoticknight

File merger tool, suitable for AI chat length limits.

2 0 0

Transfa

colapsis

Ephemeral file transfer for AI agents and CI/CD pipelines — upload any file, get a SHA-256-verified, TTL-enforced link. 4 tools: upload, fileinfo, listuploads, deleteupload. Zero-config via npx -y transfa-mcp.

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Box MCP Server

hmk

Box integration for listing, reading and searching files

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MCP Everything Search

mamertofabian

Fast Windows file search using Everything SDK

3 0 0

Fs MCP Rs

A fast, configurable filesystem server for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), written in Rust.

3 0 0

MCP Filesystem

Advanced filesystem operations with strict security boundaries for AI agents

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Md Log MCP

md-log MCP: save/update/fetch markdown by path (stdio + remote HTTP, PAT auth).

0 0 0

MCP Text Editor

tumf

A line-oriented text file editor. Optimized for LLM tools with efficient partial file access to minimize token usage.

1 0 0

Filesystem MCP

LincolnBurrows2017

Model Context Protocol server for file system operations. Supports read, write, search, copy, move with security path restrictions.

2 0 0

Obsideo MCP

Regan-Milne

Encrypted S3-compatible object storage with continuous cryptographic possession proofs. In-conversation signup (12 GB free), put/get/ls/rm/usage, optional client-side encryption; credentials stay on your machine.

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Files

Sandboxed local filesystem: read, search, edit, copy, archive, and safely manage files.

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File AI

Agent-ready local document context with stable anchors.

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Gurupdf MCP

GuruPDF

Convert, compress, merge, split, and OCR PDFs, plus convert between 100+ file formats (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, ebooks, video) from any AI agent. Backed by the GuruPDF API; free tier with daily credits, zero-config via npx gurupdf-mcp.

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Virtual Fs

PostgreSQL-backed virtual filesystem for AI agents with persistent, session-isolated storage.

0 0 0

Cairn

Local-first file-organization tools for your AI agent: tag, query, and digest a folder. No cloud.

0 0 0

Dropbox

Dropbox MCP Pack — wraps the Dropbox API v2

1 0 0

Plsreadme

FacundoLucci

Share markdown files and text as clean, readable web links via plsreadmesharefile and plsreadmesharetext; zero setup (npx -y plsreadme-mcp or https://plsreadme.com/mcp).

3 0 0

Silicon Transfer MCP Server

FTP/SFTP/FTPS MCP server with transfer proofs - every upload returns a checksum verdict.

0 0 0

MCP Server Opendal

Xuanwo

Model Context Protocol Server for Apache OpenDAL™

2 0 0

Convertica MCP

convertica-net

Convert PDF ⇄ Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPG, HTML, Markdown, EPUB and PDF/A, plus merge, split, compress, watermark, sign, and protect PDFs, and convert images (HEIC, WebP) — 35+ tools from convertica.net. Zero-config via npx convertica-mcp.

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Filestash

mickaelkerjean

Remote Storage Access: SFTP, S3, FTP, SMB, NFS, WebDAV, GIT, FTPS, gcloud, azure blob, sharepoint, etc.

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Easysend

EasySend file sharing MCP server - upload, download and share files. No authentication required.

3 0 0

Chisel

ckanthony

Reduce context usage on file use. Send only unified diffs instead of full files (up to 20-100× fewer tokens), and read large files with targeted grep/sed instead of full reads (up to 500×). Kernel-enforced path confinement hard-locks the agent to a configured root: no accidental reads or writes outside scope. Standalone for your file access or embed in any MCP server (Rust, Node.js, Python via WASM).

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Large File MCP

willianpinho

Production-ready MCP server for intelligent handling of large files with smart chunking, navigation, streaming capabilities, regex search, and built-in LRU caching.

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Agent Coherence

Cohexa-ai

Coherence guard for shared files: when two agents write the same file, the stale writer is denied instead of silently overwriting, then reacquires and retries. Single-host, TLA+-verified. Install: uvx --from "agent-coherence[mcp]" stale-write-guard-fs.

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File

Dir tree, file stats, duplicates, LOC for AI agents

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Synology NAS

MCP server for Synology NAS — browse files, monitor health, and automate operations

1 0 0

MCP Server Box Remote

box

The Box MCP server allows third party AI agents to securely and seamlessly access Box content and use tools such as search, asking questions from files and folders, and data extraction.

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Shuck File

Any file in, Markdown out — read only what matters.

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Oxidize Python

bzsanti

Rust-powered PDF toolkit: create, read, and analyze PDFs; extract text and entities for RAG; convert to Markdown; split, merge, rotate, and reorder pages; add content, annotations, and form fields; and encrypt documents. Ships in the oxidize-pdf PyPI package — run locally with uvx oxidize-mcp.

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BACH FileCommander

39 tools for filesystem, process management, sessions, search, JSON repair, and PDF export.

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FileSystem MCP Server

Secure filesystem access for AI agents with configurable directory and file type restrictions

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DirForge

Dissimilis

⃣ 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Read-only directory listing web app with a built-in MCP server: directory browsing, file reading, content search, archive inspection, file hashes, and disk usage tools over a configured root.

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Ellmos Filecommander MCP

ellmos-ai

Comprehensive local filesystem MCP server with file management, process control, interactive sessions, async search, and safe delete via Recycle Bin.

3 0 0

Pdf Card MCP

velyan

Converts local PDFs into source-linked, card-based standalone HTML readers with notes, highlights, and static publishing.

1 0 0

Hledit MCP

dabito

Hash-anchored file edits for MCP clients. Reads files with line anchors, validates anchors against current content, and rejects stale writes before changing files.

2 0 0

Text File Read And Refactor MCP

FI-Mihej

Token-efficient Python stdio MCP server exposing safe text-file search, reading, and refactoring tools. Tools automatically resolve the file BOM and codepage; edit tools save files with their original encoding and BOM. uvx text-file-read-and-refactor-mcp

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MCP Folder Scout

Read-only folder triage: what is in a folder, what is stale, and where the space went.

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MCP File Tools

Secure encoding-aware filesystem tools with atomic writes, legacy encodings, and typed errors

0 0 0

MCP Filesystem Server

mark3labs

Golang implementation for local file system access.

4 0 0

Ftp Deploy MCP

alebgl77

Deploy files from AI agents to your own FTP/FTPS/SFTP servers — multi-server config, recursive deploy with dry-run and gitignore-like excludes, per-server path jail and read-only mode, FileZilla import, one-command setup for popular MCP clients.

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Mint — Safe Mac Storage Actions

Inspect Mac storage, explain file activity, and perform journaled cleanup with Trash and Undo.

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Google Drive Files MCP

Minimal MCP server for Google Drive file management and Google Sheets editing.

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Onedrive

OneDrive (Microsoft Graph) MCP Pack

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Google Drive Comments MCP

Minimal MCP server for reading comments on Google Drive files (Docs, Sheets, Slides). Read-only.

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Google Drive MCP

MCP server for the Google Drive API: search, upload, download, organize and share files.

1 0 0

Huoshui File Search

An MCP server that provides fast Spotlight file search capabilities for macOS

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Frequently Asked Questions about File Systems MCP Servers

Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in the File Systems category allow AI assistants (such as Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and Cline) to connect directly to file systems tools, APIs, and databases without manual copy-pasting.