Remote Desktop Commander MCP Server

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Remote Desktop Commander is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. Last commit 29 Oct 2026.

Remote Desktop Commander: use files, terminal and processes on your own computers from any AI app.

Uptime history 90 days of history · worst day 99%

90 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

280 ms

Response time

average over 24h

206

Stars

last commit 29 Oct 2026

Remote Desktop Commander missed 2 checks this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add remote-desktop-commander --transport http https://mcp.desktopcommander.app/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://mcp.desktopcommander.app/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.remote-desktop-commander]
url = "https://mcp.desktopcommander.app/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "remote-desktop-commander": {
      "url": "https://mcp.desktopcommander.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "remote-desktop-commander": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.desktopcommander.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.desktopcommander.app/mcp	streamable-http	sign-in	87 ms	11 min ago

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Remote Desktop Commander — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for Remote Desktop Commander?

The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 100.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.

Is Remote Desktop Commander working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 280 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Remote Desktop Commander?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.

How do you sign in to Remote Desktop Commander?

No API key is involved. Remote Desktop Commander answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.

How fast is Remote Desktop Commander?

It answers our handshake in 280 ms on average, which is faster than 51% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Remote Desktop Commander open source?

We cannot say either way: 206 stars on GitHub and 67 open issues, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.