# Desktop Commander · wonderwhy-er

> Desktop Commander gives Claude Code access to a local MCP server for terminal sessions, filesystem work, structured documents, search, process management, and SSH workflows. What it enables: - Persistent shell sessions: keep working directory, environment variables, virtualenvs, and running processes alive across tool calls. - Long-running processes: start a dev server, watcher, or build in the background and continue working while checking logs or interacting with the process later. - Precise

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/plugin-wonderwhy-er-desktopcommandermcp-desktop-commander
- tashan id: plugin:wonderwhy-er/desktopcommandermcp/desktop-commander
- Source: https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP
- Type: plugin
- Category: other
- tashan score: 78.0 / 100
- Adoption: 68.0
- Upkeep: 93.0
- Freshness: 84.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: solid
- GitHub stars: 8,896
- License: MIT
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install desktop-commander@claude-community
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-09-13 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.