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.

68 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 68 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 MCP Server Opendal, MCP Gdrive, Box MCP Server.

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MCP Server Opendal

Xuanwo

Model Context Protocol Server for Apache OpenDAL™

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MCP Gdrive

isaacphi

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

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Box MCP Server

hmk

Box integration for listing, reading and searching files

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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.

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Quarkus MCP Servers

filesystem@quarkiverse

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

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Changethisfile MCP

aadilr

Free file conversion between 690+ formats. Tools: convertfile (URL or base64 in → signed download URL out) and listconversions. Covers image, video, audio, document, data, font, ebook, and archive formats. No auth or signup required; remote streamable-HTTP endpoint available (see README).

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Unified Diff MCP

gorosun

Generate and visualize unified diff comparisons with beautiful HTML/PNG output, supporting side-by-side and line-by-line views for filesystem dry-run integration

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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.

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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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Octofs

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

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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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MCP Filesystem Server

mark3labs

Golang implementation for local file system access.

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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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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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MCP Everything Search

mamertofabian

Fast Windows file search using Everything SDK

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Cindyloo Dropbox MCP Server

Search, browse, and read your Dropbox files. Find documents by name or content, list folders, and…

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Llm Context.py

cyberchitta

Share code context with LLMs via MCP or clipboard

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Google Drive MCP

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

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MCP Text Editor

tumf

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

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MCP Filesystem

Advanced filesystem operations with strict security boundaries for AI agents

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Filesystem MCP

LincolnBurrows2017

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

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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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Files

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

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MCP Devtools

marin1321

Production-grade MCP server for secure access to local dev environments (filesystem, databases, processes, OpenAPI). Includes scope enforcement, command allowlist, and read-only DB mode.

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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).

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Google Drive

Google Drive + Workspace MCP — Docs, Sheets, Slides, Shared Drives, Labels, Approvals, DWD

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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.

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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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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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MCP File Merger

exoticknight

File merger tool, suitable for AI chat length limits.

2 0 0

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.

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MCP File Tools

dimitar-grigorov

Filesystem server for legacy, non-UTF-8 files. Auto-detects and converts 24 encodings (CP1251, CP1252, ISO-8859-x, KOI8-R/U, GBK/GB18030), keeps each file's original encoding on write, and manages BOM and line endings. Encoding-aware grep, partial reads with offset/limit for large files, and allowed-directory confinement. Single Go binary, no runtime dependencies.

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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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Filesystem MCP

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

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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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Md To Pdf MCP

MarceauSolutions

Convert Markdown files to professional PDFs with customizable themes, headers, footers, and styling

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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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Fs MCP Rs

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

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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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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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Pdf Card MCP

velyan

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

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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.

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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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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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Google Drive MCP

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

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Huoshui File Search

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

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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 Files MCP

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

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Smart Tree

8b-is

AI-native directory visualization with semantic analysis, ultra-compressed formats for AI consumption, and 10x token reduction. Supports quantum-semantic mode with intelligent file categorization.

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Mega

MCP server for MEGA encrypted cloud storage -- file management, uploads, downloads, sharing, sync, and search via MEGAcmd

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0xpdf MCP

risha-max

Schema-first PDF→JSON MCP for AI agents (0xPdf API). Define a JSON schema, parse invoices/forms (OCR optional), manage schemas, and poll async jobs. uvx oxpdf-mcp · docs · playground

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Safe Docx

UseJunior

Surgical editing of existing Word .docx files with formatting preservation, tracked changes, comments, footnotes, and document comparison.

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Homebrew MCP

jeannier

Control your macOS Homebrew setup using natural language via this MCP server. Simply manage your packages, or ask for suggestions, troubleshoot brew issues etc.

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Dowse

ltspace

Windows-native full-disk search over file names, document contents, and OCR'd screenshot text, exposed to AI agents via a read-only local MCP server.

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Go Docs MCP

drolosoft

Multi-format document MCP server — read, search, OCR, and extract from PDF, TXT, MD, DOCX, CSV, and images. Single Go binary, 12 tools, smart mtime-based caching, directory-locked security.

1 0 0

Google Drive

Allow AI systems to list, search, upload, download, and manage files and folders in Google Drive.

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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 for filesystem operations - read, create, and edit files

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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.