MCP Filesystem Server
Officialby Anthropic / MCP Team
The official Model Context Protocol filesystem server that gives Claude direct read and write access to files and directories on your local machine or server. Install it once and Claude can open files, create new ones, list directories, search across your codebase, and move or rename files — all without copy-pasting content into the chat window. It ships as part of the official MCP servers repository maintained by Anthropic, making it the most trusted and widely-deployed server in the ecosystem. Because you specify allowed directories at startup, Claude only ever sees what you explicitly permit — it cannot access /etc, your home folder, or any path outside the scope you configure.
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Installation
npx @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem
Key Features
- ✓Read any file type — code, markdown, JSON, plain text — and stream content directly to Claude
- ✓Write and create files with full Unicode support and configurable encoding
- ✓List directories with file metadata including size, modification time, and type
- ✓Recursive file search across directory trees with glob pattern matching
- ✓Move and rename files and directories without shell access
- ✓Get detailed file info (permissions, timestamps, size) without reading content
Use Cases
- →Let Claude edit your codebase files directly without copy-paste
- →Automate file organization, renaming, and directory cleanup tasks
- →Give Claude access to project documentation for deep-context coding assistance
- →Process and transform large numbers of files in batch operations
- →Index and search your local knowledge base or note-taking system
FAQ
Server Stats
GitHub Stars
81,124
Updated
3/15/2026
NPM Package
@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem