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Rclone runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 61 installs a week from npm. Last commit 9 Feb 2026.

MCP server for the Rclone RC API, with selectable toolsets.

Installs per day peak 25 · avg 9 · -18% w/w
a month agotoday
61
Installs / week
npm · rclone-mcp
11
Stars
1 open issues
9 Feb 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Rclone every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add rclone -- npx -y rclone-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rclone": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "rclone-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.rclone]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "rclone-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rclone": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "rclone-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rclone": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "rclone-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: RCLONE_URL (Rclone RC daemon URL), RCLONE_USER (HTTP Basic Auth username), RCLONE_PASS (HTTP Basic Auth password), RCLONE_TOOLSETS (Comma-separated list of toolsets to enable (default, all, or specific: core, config, operations, sync, jobs, vfs, mount, etc.)), RCLONE_READ_ONLY (Set to 1 to disable write tools). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Rclone — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Rclone?
Rclone runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package rclone-mcp was installed 61 times last week.
How do I connect Rclone?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls rclone-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Rclone?
The npm package rclone-mcp was installed 61 times in the last week. Week over week that is -18%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Rclone open source?
We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript, 11 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.