Filesystem (reference server)

Read, write and search files inside folders you allow

★ Stars91.4k91,374 on GitHub
Last commit19 Oct 2026
LicenceApache-2.0 / MIT (MCP licence transition)Per the project
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From GitHub, fetched 19 Oct 2026. Stars are for the whole repository; the last-update date is for this folder.

Reference server for local file access. You pass the directories it may touch, and it offers tools to read, write, move, search and list files there. The MCP project marks it as a reference implementation, so review the access you grant.

At a glance

Runs asLocal
TypeMCP server
Maintained byOfficial
Installnpx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem <allowed-dir>

Sources: github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/filesystem, checked 19 Oct 2026. “Runs as” is from this listing. Blank means we haven't found it in official docs yet, not that it's unsupported.

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