Command Line MCP Servers

Command Line topic — 29 MCP servers, ranked by GitHub stars.

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fauxnix

Development

Bash for AI agents on Windows via deterministic bash-to-PowerShell translation, without WSL or a VM, with GNU-style output and persistent…

★ 900 MCP Server
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mcp-ssh-manager

Development

SSH for AI agents: commands, files, backups and health, with approval, a vault and an audit trail

★ 538 MCP Server
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SysKnife

Development

Administers Linux via typed, approval-gated actions with an Ed25519-signed audit trail.

★ 220 MCP Server
S

Suvadu

Development

Local shell history and AI agent sessions over MCP: search commands, failures, risk and git changes

★ 127 MCP Server
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hop

Development

SSH connection manager with MCP server for AI-assisted operations across servers.

★ 64 MCP Server
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Servonaut

Development

Manage AWS, Hetzner, OVH and SSH servers: status, logs, CloudWatch, IP bans, safe command exec.

★ 32 MCP Server
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ferodrigop/forge

Development

Terminal for AI coding agents: persistent PTY sessions, incremental reads, headless screen capture, multi-agent orchestration and a web…

★ 28 MCP Server
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pty-mcp

Development

Interactive PTY sessions over MCP: local shells, SSH, serial ports, and persistent remote sessions.

★ 20 MCP Server
T

tui-mcp

Development

Launch, screenshot and interact with any TUI app.

★ 15 MCP Server
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execkit

Development

Stateful, structured, safe shell sessions for AI agents over local, SSH, and Docker.

★ 13 MCP Server
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infrabroker

Development

SSH & Kubernetes access broker for AI agents; the model never touches a credential.

★ 13 MCP Server
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mcp-remote-ssh

Development

SSH access with persistent sessions, SFTP and port forwarding, with secrets injected via stdin and redacted from output before reaching…

★ 12 MCP Server
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hypnosis/ssh-mcp-server

Development

Modern SSH for AI agents — cloud servers to BusyBox routers, with destructive commands blocked.

★ 11 MCP Server
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SAGE Wrapper

Development

Command wrapper MCP server for coding agents, compression, workflows, and local automation.

★ 11 MCP Server
C

cygnus-ssh-mcp

Development

SSH-based MCP control of remote Linux, macOS, and Windows servers -- 46 purpose-built tools.

★ 9 MCP Server
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backscroll

Development

Search, retrieve, and diff the full output of past terminal commands recorded locally by backscroll.

★ 7 MCP Server
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mcp-tmux

Development

Drive tmux locally or over SSH: sessions, windows, panes, keystrokes, pane capture and raw commands, with shared sessions for pair…

★ 6 MCP Server
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SmartCLI — drive terminal TUIs

Development

Let agents drive vim, htop, lazygit: send keys, wait on screen state, read the rendered cell grid.

★ 5 MCP Server
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terminal-history-mcp

Development

Local full-text search over zsh, bash and fish history, with secret redaction and optional capture of cwd, exit code and duration.

★ 5 MCP Server
C

claude-terminal-mcp

Development

Terminal, filesystem and background-job tools for Linux and macOS.

★ 5 MCP Server
G

getremcp/remcp

Development

Securely control paired computers with ReMCP.

★ 4 MCP Server Requires auth
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localhost-mcp

Development

Inspect, manage and kill local dev servers: see what listens on each port, diagnose port conflicts, find zombie processes and kill by PID…

★ 4 MCP Server
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when

Development

The WhenLabs developer toolkit — 6 tools, 7 MCP endpoints, one install.

★ 4 MCP Server
A

aicommander

Development

Outbound-only remote shell, detached long-running jobs and temporary file transfer for AI agents, without exposing SSH, ports or a VPN.

★ 2 MCP Server
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mcp-linux-tools

Development

Administer a Linux server: read files and logs, manage systemd services and cron jobs, run read-only MySQL queries, WP-CLI, Git and…

★ 2 MCP Server
R

rootpilot-mcp

Development

Read-only SSH server diagnostics via a fixed 38-command whitelist; secrets redacted, no write path.

★ 1 MCP Server
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opsgate

Development

The safety gate between AI agents and your servers: typed, policy-checked, audited ops tools.

★ 1 MCP Server
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sudo-proxy

Development

Privileged command execution proxy with human approval via pkexec or sudo

★ 1 MCP Server
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heliograph

Development

Run commands on a machine you cannot SSH into. Air-gapped, bastion-only, change-controlled.

MCP Server