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Filesystem477,855

Provides a robust filesystem server enabling precise file system interactions like reading, writing, creating directories, moving files, and retrieving file metadata through TypeScript-based tools with detailed error handling.

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Created byAlex AndruVersion 1.0.0
Official
No
Remote
No
Published
2025/04/10
License
MIT

filesystem

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server built with mcp-framework.

Quick Start

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the project
npm run build

Project Structure

filesystem/
├── src/
│   ├── tools/        # MCP Tools
│   │   └── ExampleTool.ts
│   └── index.ts      # Server entry point
├── package.json
└── tsconfig.json

Adding Components

The project comes with an example tool in src/tools/ExampleTool.ts. You can add more tools using the CLI:

# Add a new tool
mcp add tool my-tool

# Example tools you might create:
mcp add tool data-processor
mcp add tool api-client
mcp add tool file-handler

Tool Development

Example tool structure:

import { MCPTool } from "mcp-framework";
import { z } from "zod";

interface MyToolInput {
  message: string;
}

class MyTool extends MCPTool<MyToolInput> {
  name = "my_tool";
  description = "Describes what your tool does";

  schema = {
    message: {
      type: z.string(),
      description: "Description of this input parameter",
    },
  };

  async execute(input: MyToolInput) {
    // Your tool logic here
    return `Processed: ${input.message}`;
  }
}

export default MyTool;

Publishing to npm

  1. Update your package.json:

    • Ensure name is unique and follows npm naming conventions
    • Set appropriate version
    • Add description, author, license, etc.
    • Check bin points to the correct entry file
  2. Build and test locally:

    npm run build
    npm link
    filesystem  # Test your CLI locally
    
  3. Login to npm (create account if necessary):

    npm login
    
  4. Publish your package:

    npm publish
    

After publishing, users can add it to their claude desktop client (read below) or run it with npx


## Using with Claude Desktop

### Local Development

Add this configuration to your Claude Desktop config file:

**MacOS**: `~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`
**Windows**: `%APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "node",
      "args":["/absolute/path/to/filesystem/dist/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

After Publishing

Add this configuration to your Claude Desktop config file:

MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["filesystem"]
    }
  }
}

Building and Testing

  1. Make changes to your tools
  2. Run npm run build to compile
  3. The server will automatically load your tools on startup

Learn More

Installation

Configuration for npx
Configure for npx
{}