MCP server category
Terminal and OS MCP servers: comparison and full list
The Terminal and OS category lists 115 open-source MCP servers, checked on GitHub. The best scored on our grid are Oh My Posh Validator, REA, and XERJ. 95% received a commit in the last three months.
115servers
95 %active (3 months)
0official
118stars (median)
What Terminal and OS MCP servers are for
Terminal and operating system MCP servers give an AI agent ways to interact with a workstation or its resources. This category includes tools with different scopes, such as desktop interaction, local search, and configuration validation. It serves people maintaining their working environment and teams handling technical support. Windows MCP provides computer-use capabilities for Windows. Oh My Posh Validator checks configurations and segment snippets against the official schema. You might ask: “Validate this terminal configuration and explain which entries do not match the expected schema.” The appropriate server depends on whether your task requires inspection, file access, command execution, or interface interaction.
Example uses:
- Validate an Oh My Posh configuration before using it in your everyday terminal working environment.
- Search local logs and documents for evidence relevant to a technical issue you are investigating.
- Interact with a Windows interface to complete an authorized task on a dedicated workstation for that purpose.
- Process supported local documents with a compatible tool to prepare them for consultation in your environment.
The category in figures
Of the 115 servers in the category (4% of the directory), 0 are official vendor implementations, 88% declare a licence, 20 offer a remote server and 15 need at least one API key or token according to the MCP registry. The median repository has 118 stars.
All Terminal and OS MCP servers
Click a header to sort. Score out of 100: adoption, maintenance and framework (licence, registry, official status); risk: system access, secrets, licence, abandonment.
| Server | Stars | Last commit | Licence | Risk | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REA Reverse engineer anything from your terminal or agent with one CLI and MCP server. | 377,231 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 85 |
| Oh My Posh Validator Validate oh-my-posh configurations and segment snippets against the official schema. | 23,643 | Oct 21, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 91 |
| XERJ The search engine for AI agents: cited answers from your local code, docs, specs and logs. | 15,226 | Oct 24, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | high | 85 |
| Windows MCP An MCP Server for computer-use in Windows OS | 10,226 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 85 |
| NotFair OAuth MCP for Google, Meta, X, LinkedIn, Reddit, TikTok, GSC, GA4, WordPress and GHL. | 4,055 | Oct 23, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 81 |
| Kordoc Parse Korean documents (HWP, HWPX, PDF, XLSX, DOCX, PPTX) to Markdown; fill forms, diff, render. | 2,726 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 79 |
| Claude real video Let any LLM watch a video locally — and search everything it has ever watched. | 2,259 | Oct 23, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 79 |
| Llmwiki Compile documents into a cited knowledge wiki. Retrieve evidence, query, and review via local MCP. | 2,218 | Oct 19, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 78 |
| TypeUI Design systems, UI prompts, and layout variations for AI coding tools. | 2,153 | Oct 22, 2026 | — | high | 68 |
| Microsoft Learn MCP Official Microsoft Learn MCP Server – real-time, trusted docs & code samples for AI and LLMs. | 1,953 | Oct 21, 2026 | CC-BY-4.0 | moderate | 84 |
| IWE (iwe.md) Markdown knowledge base as agent memory. Runs against the notes directory it is started in. | 1,792 | Oct 24, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | moderate | 78 |
| Blitz mac Give AI agents full control over iOS/macOS development via a native macOS app with 30+ MCP tools. | 1,760 | Jul 14, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | moderate | 65 |
| MCP Server for WinDbg Crash Analysis A Model Context Protocol server for Windows crash dump analysis using WinDbg/CDB | 1,632 | Oct 23, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 77 |
| Empryo Search and read Empryo's documentation. Read-only, no auth, no local access. | 1,451 | Oct 16, 2026 | — | high | 73 |
| Obsei Self-hosted customer feedback with PII stripped at ingest: search, stats and themes with citations. | 1,441 | Oct 21, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | high | 77 |
| Persome Local-first personal memory and model server for trusted MCP agents on macOS. | 1,328 | Oct 16, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | moderate | 76 |
| Anymd Any file → clean Markdown for AI agents: PDF, Office, EPUB, HTML, images, audio/video. Local MCP. | 1,051 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 75 |
| Scaleway MCP server Scaleway MCP server for interacting with the Scaleway APIs | 1,016 | Oct 24, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | moderate | 75 |
| HOL Guard Local-first AI agent security evidence and approval workflows through HOL Guard's stdio MCP server. | 978 | Oct 24, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | moderate | 75 |
| Fauxnix Bash for AI agents on Windows via deterministic bash-to-PowerShell translation, without WSL or a VM, with GNU-style output and persistent cw | 903 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 75 |
| CartCut Edit video in the CartCut desktop editor: cuts from a transcript, captions, motion, effects. | 818 | Oct 21, 2026 | MIT | high | 74 |
| Photoshop MCP MCP server for Adobe Photoshop — 128 tools (generative AI + recipes), standalone web UI. Control Ph… | 727 | Oct 23, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 74 |
| SEO Skill Free Google Search Console MCP: your real GSC, Google Analytics and keyword data for AI agents. | 593 | Oct 23, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | moderate | 79 |
| DocsAgent — Zotero, Obsidian & Apple Notes MCP Server Instant, private access to your knowledge base: Zotero, Obsidian, Apple Notes (macOS). | 578 | Sep 28, 2026 | — | high | 63 |
| MCP ssh manager Manage multiple SSH servers: commands, file transfer and rsync, database dumps and queries, backups, health monitoring, tunnels and per-serv | 518 | Oct 9, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 77 |
| GrayMatter Persistent agent memory as a single Go binary: knowledge graph, TUI observability, zero infra. | 487 | Oct 9, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 72 |
| Clawdcursor Desktop control for any AI agent on Windows, macOS and Linux. Reads the screen as text (accessibility tree, then OCR) and acts on controls b | 406 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 76 |
| Flutter MCP Toolkit Inspect and drive Flutter debug apps/games: semantic snapshots, search, and custom client tools | 392 | Oct 17, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 71 |
| Unity MCP (isuzu-shiranui) Unity Editor automation for AI agents: scenes, prefabs, assets, shaders, Timeline, tests, builds. | 335 | Oct 8, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 76 |
| Tw legal rag Citation-guarded retrieval over 22M Taiwan court judgments and administrative interpretations | 333 | Oct 21, 2026 | — | high | 60 |
| MCP server tauri A Model Context Protocol server for use with Tauri v2 applications | 326 | Oct 22, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 70 |
| Domain check Fast domain availability checker with RDAP/WHOIS — batch checks, TLD presets, and name generation. | 306 | Oct 19, 2026 | — | high | 60 |
| AsDecided Read-only access to deterministic engineering decisions stored in a local repository. | 299 | Oct 21, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | moderate | 70 |
| Mirroir MCP Control a real iPhone through macOS iPhone Mirroring: screenshot, tap, swipe, type. | 267 | Oct 23, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | moderate | 69 |
| QVeris Professional data and tools for AI: find services, review scope, call them, and audit usage. | 263 | Oct 23, 2026 | MIT | high | 69 |
| Watch cli Hand any social video to your AI agent — frames + transcript bundled. MCP server for watch-cli. | 259 | Sep 13, 2026 | MIT | high | 64 |
| SemanticOps MCP (for Power BI) Power BI MCP server (Supports Windows and macOS) | 255 | Oct 16, 2026 | — | high | 59 |
| OpenImageDebugger MCP MCP server giving AI agents eyes on OpenImageDebugger buffers in live gdb/lldb sessions | 250 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 69 |
| Clippy Copy AI-generated content to the macOS clipboard: rich Gmail-ready email drafts, text, and files | 250 | Sep 4, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 64 |
| Geargrafx MCP Server MCP server for Geargrafx PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 emulator | 248 | Oct 24, 2026 | GPL-3.0 | moderate | 69 |
| Gemini MCP Gemini 3 MCP server with 30+ tools: images, video, research, TTS, code exec & CLI | 218 | Jul 8, 2026 | MIT | high | 56 |
| Glif Generate images, video, and audio with Glif's media-generation agent | 215 | Oct 9, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 74 |
| Kokon Generate and edit images offline with Qwen-Image 2.1 on your GPU. Needs the Kokon desktop app. | 214 | Oct 23, 2026 | AGPL-3.0 | moderate | 68 |
| Polymarket toolkit Read-only Polymarket data tools for AI agents: profiles, PnL, market scans. No keys, no orders. | 200 | Sep 9, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 63 |
| Remote Desktop Commander Remote Desktop Commander: use files, terminal and processes on your own computers from any AI app. | 191 | Oct 22, 2026 | — | high | 64 |
| Crawlberg Scrape, crawl, and map websites to Markdown or JSON via local CLI. | 190 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 68 |
| Illustrator MCP server Adobe Illustrator MCP with 66 tools — more than the official Illustrator MCP. macOS | Windows. | 179 | Sep 29, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 68 |
| Adeu Automated DOCX Redlining Engine | 168 | Oct 21, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 73 |
| Api MCP server MCP server for Hostinger API | 164 | Oct 23, 2026 | MIT | high | 67 |
| Logic Pro MCP Logic Pro MCP server for stateful DAW control, live readback, MIDI, plugins, and safety gates. | 148 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 67 |
| Oh My Posh Configurator MCP server for creating, validating, and exporting Oh My Posh terminal prompt configurations. | 138 | Aug 3, 2026 | — | high | 51 |
| Ignite UI MCP Server Unified MCP server for Ignite UI — documentation, API, and CLI scaffolding | 137 | Oct 23, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 66 |
| Cli microsoft365 MCP server MCP server for CLI for Microsoft 365 to manage your tenant using natural language | 135 | Oct 13, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 66 |
| Tiger MCP Provides programmatic access to Tiger Cloud services, databases, and documentation. | 126 | Oct 24, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | high | 66 |
| Suvadu Read-only access to your local shell history and AI coding agent sessions: search commands, recent failures and risky commands, and see what | 121 | Oct 20, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 71 |
| Applemusic MCP Apple Music MCP server: playlists, library, catalog, playback and Up Next, on Mac/Windows/Linux. | 121 | Oct 23, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 66 |
| GitHits Search public open-source code, documentation, metadata, vulnerabilities, changelogs, and examples. | 119 | Oct 24, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | moderate | 72 |
| Dvalincode Deterministic security scanning, no model or API key, plus offline-verifiable proof a fix worked. | 118 | Oct 19, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 66 |
| Parrot Your recorded Mac meetings in Claude: search, promises with owners, follow-ups. Local, read-only. | 118 | Oct 16, 2026 | GPL-3.0 | moderate | 66 |
| SAP HANA CLI 150+ SAP HANA database tools as MCP tools for AI assistants | 114 | Oct 11, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | moderate | 66 |
| Agentburn Local profiler: which usage window took you out, and where your agent's money goes | 113 | Oct 19, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 66 |
| DesktopManager Windows Verification Inspect and verify Windows x64 desktop apps through a local, read-only-by-default MCP server. | 107 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 65 |
| NVIDIA Elements NVIDIA Elements UI design system and agent tools for AI/ML, robotics, and autonomous vehicles. | 106 | Oct 24, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | moderate | 65 |
| Tendem MCP server Delegate tasks to vetted human experts - research, writing, analysis, and data work. | 102 | Oct 23, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 65 |
| XposedOrNot Breach Intelligence Real-time data-breach lookup and analytics for emails and domains from XposedOrNot. | 100 | Oct 23, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 71 |
| Bibverify Verify and repair BibTeX references with DOI-first MCP tools. | 98 | Oct 22, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 65 |
| Socialclaw Connect any AI agent to 11+ social platforms: schedule, publish & track posts via hosted MCP. | 98 | Oct 12, 2026 | MIT | high | 65 |
| Screaming Frog SEO Spider MCP Server (headless) Headless Screaming Frog SEO Spider via its CLI: run crawls, export and filter data, no GUI needed. | 93 | Oct 17, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 65 |
| Trvl Door-to-door travel MCP + CLI: flights, hotels, trains, cars, ferries. No API keys, Go binary. | 89 | Oct 23, 2026 | — | high | 54 |
| Transcripted Read-only search over the meetings, dictations and writing saved by the Transcripted Mac app. | 82 | Oct 23, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 64 |
| MarkuprPlus Records your screen and voice, returns one annotated screenshot and finding per mark. | 80 | Oct 18, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 64 |
| Flightclaw Search ~300 airlines and book flights with a checkout link. OAuth sign-in by email code. | 75 | Oct 5, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 70 |
| The Brains Search cited playbooks from top founders and investors on growth, distribution and pricing. | 75 | Oct 24, 2026 | — | high | 54 |
| LMCP Mac & Windows: let ChatGPT, Claude & Cursor use your email, calendar, iMessage, Teams, files. | 73 | Oct 23, 2026 | — | high | 60 |
| TesterArmy Agents that test your web and mobile app like real users, on every pull request. | 72 | Sep 21, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 59 |
| Atris Run Atris campaigns from any agent, and extract, check, or search brand design systems. | 71 | Oct 24, 2026 | — | high | 54 |
| Oh My Android AI agents see and drive the Android Emulator: screenshots, UI in dp, tap, dark mode, RTL, logcat. | 69 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 63 |
| OneCite Generate academic citations from DOI, arXiv, titles, or URLs in BibTeX, APA, MLA formats. | 67 | Aug 6, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 58 |
| Hop SSH connection manager with a TUI dashboard for discovering, searching and running commands on remote hosts. | 65 | Oct 15, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 68 |
| Norman MCP Server AI-powered bookkeeping and tax filing for entrepreneurs at the heart of the European economy. | 62 | Oct 23, 2026 | MIT | high | 69 |
| Thunderbird cli Give AI agents full read/write email access via Mozilla Thunderbird. Zero credentials. | 62 | Oct 21, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 63 |
| Wayback Machine MCP server and CLI tool for interacting with the Wayback Machine without API keys | 60 | Oct 6, 2026 | — | high | 53 |
| XcodeMCP Control Xcode directly via JXA for build, test, debug operations with XCLogParser integration | 59 | Feb 5, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | moderate | 43 |
| Microsoft Access Database Read and edit Microsoft Access databases (.accdb/.mdb) - forms, VBA, tables, queries. Windows. | 58 | Oct 10, 2026 | — | high | 53 |
| Termcp An MCP server that lets AI agents act like a human at a real terminal, local or over SSH. | 57 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 63 |
| Redmine Work with Redmine issues, projects, time entries, wiki pages and more. Read-only by default. | 56 | Oct 23, 2026 | MIT | high | 62 |
| Penthera Offline, rule-based security checks for your repo, dependencies, AI agent config and local app. | 55 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 62 |
| FocusRelay Connect AI tools to OmniFocus on macOS to find, review, and safely update tasks and projects. | 55 | Oct 17, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 62 |
| Stockbit MCP Indonesian exchange (IDX) via your own Stockbit account: quotes, bandarmology, charts. Unofficial. | 54 | Oct 19, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 62 |
| Mediagen Generate images and video from text prompts across Gemini, OpenAI and Kie AI. | 51 | Oct 7, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 62 |
| Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange Manage Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange via 400+ tools — ZPA, ZIA, ZDX, ZCC, ZTW, ZMS, EASM, and more. | 51 | Oct 12, 2026 | MIT | high | 62 |
| Servonaut Manage AWS EC2, Hetzner, OVH and SSH servers: commands, logs, CloudWatch/CloudTrail queries, fleet health, IP banning and S3, with tiered sa | 30 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 71 |
| Apple Calendar Local macOS servers for Mail, Calendar, Reminders, Messages, Contacts, Notes, Shortcuts, Files, Maps and system tools, unified or standalone | 29 | Oct 22, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 65 |
| Forge (ferodrigop) Terminal for AI coding agents: persistent PTY sessions, incremental reads, headless screen capture, multi-agent orchestration and a web dash | 28 | Apr 8, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 39 |
| Desktop touch MCP Windows desktop automation with entity-based actions instead of coordinate clicks, using UIA, CDP, screenshots, keyboard, mouse, clipboard a | 22 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 63 |
| WPFVisualTreeMcp Inspect, debug and drive running WPF apps without source changes: visual tree, dependency properties, bindings, DataContext, screenshots, cl | 20 | Oct 22, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 63 |
| Glass Drive native GUI apps under development: launch, screenshot, read the accessibility tree, inject input, tail logs and diff frames on desktop | 20 | Oct 24, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | moderate | 63 |
| SysKnife Linux system administration via typed actions instead of shell strings, with a signed audit log, one-time approval receipts and automatic ro | 20 | Oct 24, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 63 |
| Pty MCP Interactive PTY sessions for AI agents: local shells, persistent SSH sessions with attach/detach, and serial ports. | 20 | Oct 22, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 63 |
| Munim Computer Use Accessibility-first computer use on macOS, Windows and Linux: element IDs instead of pixels, background input, a pointer overlay and its own | 18 | Oct 21, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | moderate | 63 |
| Plonk Mac window manager and menu bar utilities: arrange windows across displays, snap to custom zones, save workspaces, window screenshots and on | 17 | Oct 20, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 62 |
| Gnome desktop MCP GNOME desktop automation via D-Bus: screenshots, window management, mouse and keyboard input, clipboard, workspaces and notifications on GNO | 15 | Apr 15, 2026 | GPL-3.0 | moderate | 37 |
| OpenWand Read-only desktop context through OpenWand: current selection, clipboard, active window, browser page and screen. | 15 | Oct 18, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 57 |
| Tui MCP Launch, screenshot and interact with any TUI app. | 14 | Aug 2, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 51 |
| Infrabroker Self-hosted SSH and Kubernetes access broker: ephemeral per-operation credentials the model never sees, per-command firewall, human approval | 13 | Oct 21, 2026 | GPL-3.0 | moderate | 61 |
| Clawtouch MCP Physical USB HID keyboard and mouse control via a Raspberry Pi Pico 2: move, click, drag, type, key combos and scroll, with a mock mode for | 13 | Oct 15, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 61 |
| MCP remote ssh SSH access with persistent sessions, SFTP and port forwarding, with secrets injected via stdin and redacted from output before reaching the | 12 | Aug 17, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 51 |
| SAGE Wrapper Local command wrapper for AI coding agents: runs shell commands, stores history locally and returns compressed terminal output to reduce con | 11 | Oct 21, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 60 |
| Cygnus ssh MCP SSH control of remote Linux, macOS and Windows servers: line-level file editing, background tasks, sudo, host aliases, and directory and arc | 8 | Sep 29, 2026 | GPL-3.0 | moderate | 59 |
| Backscroll Search, retrieve and diff the output of past terminal commands, recorded locally with exit codes, cwd and duration, with secret redaction by | 7 | Sep 14, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 53 |
| SSH MCP Server Remote server work via the local OpenSSH client: run commands, transfer files with checksums, search logs and audit hosts, with destructive | 6 | Oct 22, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 58 |
| MCP tmux Drive tmux locally or over SSH: sessions, windows, panes, keystrokes, pane capture and raw commands, with shared sessions for pair programmi | 6 | Oct 13, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 53 |
| SmartCLI — drive terminal TUIs Drive full-screen terminal programs such as vim, htop and lazygit by reading the screen as a live cell grid with cursor, selection and alt-s | 5 | Oct 11, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 57 |
| Terminal history MCP Local full-text search over zsh, bash and fish history, with secret redaction and optional capture of cwd, exit code and duration. | 5 | May 11, 2026 | MIT | moderate | 40 |
| Cellar Hybrid computer-use runtime combining the accessibility tree, Chrome DevTools Protocol and vision into structured context, with offline supp | 5 | Oct 21, 2026 | Apache-2.0 | moderate | 52 |
Choosing and securing
Check operating system support and the exact scope of exposed tools. A configuration validator needs different access from desktop control software. Review permissions, project maintenance, and licensing. Look for explicit restrictions on accessible paths and executable programs. Examine installation dependencies, action logging, and ways to interrupt ongoing work. Test whether the server can operate under a restricted account rather than assuming elevated privileges are required.
System access may expose personal files, secrets stored in environment variables, and active sessions. Commands or desktop interactions can delete data or change workstation settings. Use a restricted account and a dedicated working directory. Files and logs may contain malicious instructions, so treat their content as untrusted input. Verify target paths, control executable access, and require confirmation before destructive operations. Check whether activity logs themselves contain sensitive information.
Before connecting a server to an agent with access to your data, run the AI agent security check.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the best Terminal and OS MCP server?
On our grid (adoption, maintenance, framework), Oh My Posh Validator (91/100), REA (85/100), and XERJ (85/100) come first. The right choice mostly depends on the service you need and the rights you are willing to grant.
Are these servers free?
88% declare an open-source licence and are free to use. 15 need an API key: the connected service may be paid.
Can the agent access every file on my computer?
That depends on the server, its operating account, and configured restrictions. A process can generally reach resources available to that account unless additional controls apply. Set an explicit working directory and inspect available access controls. Instructions asking the agent to avoid certain files do not replace technical restrictions.
Does the server need administrator privileges?
Only when a required function needs them and you understand the consequences. Validating a configuration or searching local files does not automatically justify broad privileges. Check the documented prerequisites and use the least access needed. If an operation requires elevation, review its specific scope before allowing it.
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