Filesystem vs Desktop Commander
Filesystem scores 7 points higher — a narrow lead. Read the evidence rows below before treating it as decisive. Both are measured the same way, on the same day, from public evidence only — so this is a comparison of two measurements rather than two marketing pages. How we measure ›
| Filesystem | Desktop Commander | what it means | |
|---|---|---|---|
| tashan score | 90 | 83 | upkeep + freshness, gated by adoption |
| Adoption evidence | 627k/wk | 39k/wk | the raw public signal the score came from |
| Last release | active | active | npm publish or repo push |
| Upkeep | 89 | 99 | cadence, maintainers, status |
| Expertise grade | thin | solid | an LLM read of its own documentation against a fixed rubric |
| Security audit | no known advisories | no known advisories, runs an install script | a summary — the full audit, free, is on each dossier |
| Licence | NOASSERTION | MIT | |
| Maintainers | more than one | more than one | bus-factor risk |
Install either
Filesystem
claude mcp add filesystem -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystemDesktop Commander
claude mcp add wonderwhy-er-desktop-commander -- npx -y @wonderwhy-er/desktop-commanderNeither score is a security verdict — "well maintained" and "nothing known is wrong" are different claims, which is why the audit is a separate row and never folded into the number. The full audit for each — the advisory ids, the version that fixes them and anything that runs at install time — is free on its own page: Filesystem · Desktop Commander.
Both numbers above are today’s. Whichever you pick, the question that matters next is when it changes — and this page cannot know that. Pro keeps the series behind each capability, and names what to move to.
- The whole series behind any row, back to the first day we measured it
- The replacement, named — not just the news that something died
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