Command Line MCP Servers
Command Line topic — 29 MCP servers, ranked by GitHub stars.
fauxnix
Bash for AI agents on Windows via deterministic bash-to-PowerShell translation, without WSL or a VM, with GNU-style output and persistent…
mcp-ssh-manager
SSH for AI agents: commands, files, backups and health, with approval, a vault and an audit trail
SysKnife
Administers Linux via typed, approval-gated actions with an Ed25519-signed audit trail.
Suvadu
Local shell history and AI agent sessions over MCP: search commands, failures, risk and git changes
hop
SSH connection manager with MCP server for AI-assisted operations across servers.
Servonaut
Manage AWS, Hetzner, OVH and SSH servers: status, logs, CloudWatch, IP bans, safe command exec.
ferodrigop/forge
Terminal for AI coding agents: persistent PTY sessions, incremental reads, headless screen capture, multi-agent orchestration and a web…
pty-mcp
Interactive PTY sessions over MCP: local shells, SSH, serial ports, and persistent remote sessions.
tui-mcp
Launch, screenshot and interact with any TUI app.
execkit
Stateful, structured, safe shell sessions for AI agents over local, SSH, and Docker.
infrabroker
SSH & Kubernetes access broker for AI agents; the model never touches a credential.
mcp-remote-ssh
SSH access with persistent sessions, SFTP and port forwarding, with secrets injected via stdin and redacted from output before reaching…
hypnosis/ssh-mcp-server
Modern SSH for AI agents — cloud servers to BusyBox routers, with destructive commands blocked.
SAGE Wrapper
Command wrapper MCP server for coding agents, compression, workflows, and local automation.
cygnus-ssh-mcp
SSH-based MCP control of remote Linux, macOS, and Windows servers -- 46 purpose-built tools.
backscroll
Search, retrieve, and diff the full output of past terminal commands recorded locally by backscroll.
mcp-tmux
Drive tmux locally or over SSH: sessions, windows, panes, keystrokes, pane capture and raw commands, with shared sessions for pair…
SmartCLI — drive terminal TUIs
Let agents drive vim, htop, lazygit: send keys, wait on screen state, read the rendered cell grid.
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.
claude-terminal-mcp
Terminal, filesystem and background-job tools for Linux and macOS.
getremcp/remcp
Securely control paired computers with ReMCP.
localhost-mcp
Inspect, manage and kill local dev servers: see what listens on each port, diagnose port conflicts, find zombie processes and kill by PID…
when
The WhenLabs developer toolkit — 6 tools, 7 MCP endpoints, one install.
aicommander
Outbound-only remote shell, detached long-running jobs and temporary file transfer for AI agents, without exposing SSH, ports or a VPN.
mcp-linux-tools
Administer a Linux server: read files and logs, manage systemd services and cron jobs, run read-only MySQL queries, WP-CLI, Git and…
rootpilot-mcp
Read-only SSH server diagnostics via a fixed 38-command whitelist; secrets redacted, no write path.
opsgate
The safety gate between AI agents and your servers: typed, policy-checked, audited ops tools.
sudo-proxy
Privileged command execution proxy with human approval via pkexec or sudo
heliograph
Run commands on a machine you cannot SSH into. Air-gapped, bastion-only, change-controlled.