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"Title": "Can I config allowed paths?",
"Excerpt": "Great Project!\nI'm wondering how can I pass the allowed paths for desktop-commander? Maybe like `mcp/filesystem`?",
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"Title": "Desktop Commander MCP + Claude Desktop stopped working out of the blue - Any ideas?",
"Excerpt": "Hello everyone,\n\nI've been using Claude Desktop with Desktop Commander MCP with great success over the last few months, but this morning it simply stopped working. At first, I thought it was something wrong with Claude, but we've been troubleshooting it a bit and I think the issue is on my end somewhere.\n\nThe problem: Tool calls randomly fail to reach Desktop Commander. Some work, others just vanish - they never even appear in DC's MCP logs. When commands do arrive, DC responds in <100ms, so it'",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/326",
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"Title": "Stuck while trying to read any dir inside /Users/myUser/a-dir in MacOS Sonoma",
"Excerpt": "I added the MCP via NPX and the tools are correctly appearing in Claude Desktop. But When trying some as simple as a \n\n```\n/DIR/PATH/\nList and classify the files in the dir\n```\n\nClaude just hangs and after a while it aborts trying to execute another command named lis_directories_allowed or something like that.\n\n\n\nHere is the Claude Desktop Config\n\n```json\n{\n \"globalShortcut\": \"Alt+Space\",\n \"mcpServers\": {\n",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/39",
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"Title": "Claude Desktop extension submission follow-ups",
"Excerpt": "Hello from Anthropic! Thanks for submitting this to our desktop extension registry; we're excited about your submission. We have a few follow-up requests.\n\nWelcome feedback to understand which of these is feasible / acceptable within the desired functionality of this extension.\n\n### Must Fix\n\n- Add destructive operation annotations to all modifying tools\n- Provide clear privacy policy explaining data collection\n - Because you collect usage data that you transmit to GA, we ought to provide some ",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/242",
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"Title": "# Bug Report: \"Cannot convert undefined or null to object\" Error",
"Excerpt": "# Bug Report: \"Cannot convert undefined or null to object\" Error\n\n## Issue Summary\nDesktop Commander MCP is throwing \"Cannot convert undefined or null to object\" errors on all file system and process operations, making the tool unusable. The error affects multiple tool categories systematically.\n\n## Environment Details\n- **Desktop Commander Version**: 0.2.6\n- **Operating System**: macOS 15 (Sequoia) on M1 iMac\n- **Claude Desktop Version**: Claude 0.12.28 (5f9bc7) 2025-07-18T21:14:50.000Z\n- **Nod",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/193",
"PublishedAt": "2025-07-23T06:25:56.000Z",
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"Title": "Scoped command permissions / per-directory command allowlist",
"Excerpt": "Allow a blocked command only inside selected directories.\n\n```json\n{\n \"commandScopes\": {\n \"Remove-Item\": [\"C:\\\\Users\\\\me\\\\work\"]\n }\n}\n```",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/663",
"PublishedAt": "2026-08-27T14:17:08.000Z",
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"Title": "list_processes returns garbled output on Windows — command name always empty, CPU/Memory fields show wrong data",
"Excerpt": "**Environment:** Windows 11, Desktop Commander v0.2.46 (installed as a Claude Desktop Extension), Claude Desktop 1.37937.3.0\n\n**Description:**\n\nOn Windows, `list_processes` returns output like this for every single process, regardless of what's actually running:\n\n```\nPID: 4, Command: , CPU: Services, Memory: 0\nPID: 972, Command: , CPU: Services, Memory: 0\nPID: 1200, Command: , CPU: Console, Memory: 1\n```\n\nThe command name is always empty, and the CPU/Memory columns contain garbage (\"Services\", \"",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/662",
"PublishedAt": "2026-08-27T05:16:26.000Z",
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"Title": "Remote 0.2.47: broadcast_v1 intermittently drops individual tool calls while device remains online",
"Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nRemote Desktop Commander `0.2.47` intermittently drops individual remote tool calls when used from ChatGPT over `broadcast_v1`.\n\nThe important distinction from a normal command timeout is that the failed request never reaches the remote Desktop Commander process at all. Successful requests immediately before and after the failure are logged by the remote agent and complete in roughly 10 ms, while the missing request is completely absent from the agent journal.\n\nThe device remains onl",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/660",
"PublishedAt": "2026-08-26T17:08:40.000Z",
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"Title": "Remote 0.2.47: read_multiple_files with larger multi-image response closes MCP connection",
"Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nOn Remote Desktop Commander `0.2.47` on Windows, `read_multiple_files` reproducibly closes the local MCP stdio connection when the combined image response becomes sufficiently large.\n\nThe individual PNG files are valid and can all be read separately. Smaller multi-image batches also work. Increasing the same batch from 4 images to 5 images reproducibly causes:\n\n```text\nMCP error -32000: Connection closed\n```\n\nAfter this happens, subsequent execution tools return:\n\n```text\nNot connect",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/658",
"PublishedAt": "2026-08-26T06:59:27.000Z",
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"Title": "Windows: plugin launch uses npx @latest, so it reinstalls on every start and never beats the 120s connect timeout",
"Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nThe Claude Desktop **plugin** (`plugins/claude/.claude-plugin/plugin.json`) launches the server as:\n\n```json\n\"mcpServers\": {\n \"desktop-commander\": {\n \"command\": \"npx\",\n \"args\": [\"-y\", \"@wonderwhy-er/desktop-commander@latest\"]\n }\n}\n```\n\nBecause of `@latest`, npm re-resolves the version on **every** launch. As soon as the npx-cached copy is one release behind, npx reinstalls the whole dependency tree *before* the server can answer `initialize`. On my machine that install takes ",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/655",
"PublishedAt": "2026-08-25T05:41:01.000Z",
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"Title": "MCP spec conformance: 5 requirement(s) violated (via @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test) — spec 2025-11-25",
"Excerpt": "Companion issue to the 2026-07-28 report filed separately (counts differ per revision, so filing individually rather than merging). When Desktop Commander MCP is tested against the 2025-11-25 revision, a version-less request and an unsupported-version handshake both get \"server exited\" instead of a response, and the official-SDK client can't complete initialize or list tools — 5 requirements violated, with 13 further checks unverifiable. As with the 2026-07-28 report, this may be a slow/flaky st",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/654",
"PublishedAt": "2026-08-24T19:27:01.000Z",
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"Title": "MCP spec conformance: 10 requirement(s) violated (via @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test) — spec 2026-07-28",
"Excerpt": "When Desktop Commander MCP (via `npx -y @wonderwhy-er/desktop-commander@latest`) is tested against the 2026-07-28 MCP spec revision with `@hasmcp/mcp-spec-test`, the initial `server/discover` and version-less requests never get a response within the 10s timeout, and the connection is later reported closed. The package does install and run (the whole test took ~27s, well past typical MCP handshake latency), so this may be a slow first-run/cold-start rather than a hard crash, but it exceeds what a",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/653",
"PublishedAt": "2026-08-24T19:27:00.000Z",
"State": "open",
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"Title": "Remote channel repeatedly goes offline with \"IncreaseConnectionPool\" after socket 1006 disconnects",
"Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nRemote Desktop Commander repeatedly becomes unreachable even though the Ubuntu machine and the `desktop-commander remote` process continue running normally.\n\nThe device may temporarily appear as `online`, but the remote channel itself is not usable. Restarting the remote agent restores connectivity temporarily, but the same failure can return after several minutes.\n\nThe most notable error is:\n\n```text\nIncreaseConnectionPool: Please increase your connection pool size\n```\n\nThis error a",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/652",
"PublishedAt": "2026-08-24T03:58:25.000Z",
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"Title": "Server startup takes 8-12s; 71% is module resolution (1,044 internalModuleStat calls)",
"Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nCold start of the MCP server takes 8.4 to 12.2 seconds before it can answer an `initialize` request. CPU profiling shows roughly 71% of that is Node resolving and reading modules from disk, not doing any work.\n\nThis matters because MCP clients spawn their own instance per session. On a client with a ~10s startup timeout the handshake intermittently loses the race and the server is reported as failing to start.\n\n## Environment\n\n- desktop-commander 0.2.46 (Desktop Extension build)\n- No",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/650",
"PublishedAt": "2026-08-22T13:13:49.000Z",
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"Title": "The OAuth authorization issue previously reported in #601 appears to have returned.",
"Excerpt": "Steps to reproduce:\n1)Open Desktop Commander in ChatGPT.\n2)Start the authorization/connect flow.\n3)Continue to the Desktop Commander OAuth authorization page.\n4)Authorization fails immediately with:\n{ \"error\": \"server_error\", \"error_description\": \"Failed to process authorization request: Failed to create OAuth session\"}.\n\nPrior to the current failure, Desktop Commander had been randomly losing authorization roughly every 10–15 hours. Re-authorization would temporarily restore access. This may be",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/646",
"PublishedAt": "2026-08-21T05:07:02.000Z",
"State": "closed",
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"Title": "Slow/inconsistent initialize response causes Cowork/Code shared-pool timeout",
"Excerpt": "\n\nDesktop Commander MCP — Slow/Inconsistent initialize Handshake Causing Cowork/Code Timeout
\nSummary
\nDesktop Commander (installed via Claude Desktop's Extensions/.dxt system) intermittently takes 45–60+ seconds to respond to the MCP initialize request on startup, instead of the ~5 seconds seen on a clean launch. When the delay exceeds Cowork/Code's shared-pool startup timeout (~55–60s), the se",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/645",
"PublishedAt": "2026-08-21T04:10:26.000Z",
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"Title": "Linux/systemd: start_process background jobs die when Desktop Commander restarts",
"Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nOn Linux, when the Desktop Commander remote device runs as a systemd service,\ncommands launched through `start_process` normally remain in the service's\ncgroup. A service stop or restart therefore terminates those commands and their\ndescendants under systemd's control-group kill semantics.\n\nThat cleanup policy is a safe default for controller-owned work. The surprising\npart is the user-facing contract: Desktop Commander advertises timeout and\n\"background execution\" for long-running c",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/644",
"PublishedAt": "2026-08-20T16:13:42.000Z",
"State": "open",
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"Title": "start_search docs misstate filename and literalSearch matching semantics",
"Excerpt": "## Summary\n\n`start_search` currently publishes a pattern-matching contract that implies `literalSearch=false` means regex matching generally. That is not true for all search modes.\n\nVerified independently on current `main` / v0.2.47 (`9bd8422`).\n\n## Reproduction\n\nWith files:\n\n- `target-alpha.txt`\n- `target-beta.txt`\n- `target-gamma.log`\n- `notes.txt`\n\nFile-name searches behave as follows:\n\n- `searchType=\"files\", pattern=\"target-.*\\\\.txt$\", literalSearch=false` -> 0 results\n- `searchType=\"files\",",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/641",
"PublishedAt": "2026-08-19T20:59:26.000Z",
"State": "open",
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"Title": "Remote 0.2.47 can report online/pong while all execution tools return Not connected",
"Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nRemote Desktop Commander 0.2.47 can enter a false-healthy state where the control plane looks healthy but the execution data plane is unusable.\n\nObserved from a ChatGPT Remote MCP connector on Windows:\n\n- `list_devices`: device is `online`\n- `auth_token`: `valid`\n- capabilities include `app_version: 0.2.47` and `transport_broadcast_v1: true`\n- `last_seen` continues to advance\n- `ping`: returns `pong`\n- execution tools such as `read_file`, `get_config`, `start_process`, and `get_recen",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/633",
"PublishedAt": "2026-08-19T13:46:50.000Z",
"State": "open",
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"Title": "`read_file` leaks the ReadStream fd whenever the line budget is reached, which blocks `MoveFileEx(..., MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING)` on that path indefinitely (Windows)",
"Excerpt": "# `read_file` leaks the ReadStream fd whenever the line budget is reached, which blocks `MoveFileEx(..., MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING)` on that path indefinitely (Windows)\n\n> **This is additional data for [#476](https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/476)**, not a new\n> report. #476 already describes the symptom and guessed the cause correctly. What follows adds: the exact\n> trigger condition (measured, 108 attempts), the boundary case that pins the mechanism down, confirmation ",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/631",
"PublishedAt": "2026-08-19T04:43:38.000Z",
"State": "open",
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"Title": "Your MCP server is listed on DReview",
"Excerpt": "Hi — just wanted to flag that Desktop Commander MCP is listed on DReview (https://dreview.co/tools/desktop-commander-mcp), a free directory of MCP servers with per-client install configs. No action needed on your end — feel free to link to the listing from your README if useful, or let me know if anything about the listing needs a correction.\n\nThanks for building this — it's a genuinely useful server.",
"SourceUrl": "https://github.com/wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP/issues/624",
"PublishedAt": "2026-08-06T00:59:04.000Z",
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