Filesystem MCP Server

Sandboxed file operations with an allowlist.

Official — published by the vendor of the system it connects to.

Read, write, move and search files inside directories you explicitly allow. Every path is checked against the allowlist before the call runs, so an agent cannot wander outside the folders you named.

Install Filesystem MCP Server

Paste this into your MCP client config — Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and Windsurf all read the same shape — then restart the client.

npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem /path/to/dir

Details

Repository: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers
Homepage: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers
Category: File System
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Last checked: 2026-07-17

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