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Tabby MCP Server

thuanpham582002/tabby-mcp-server

A Tabby Terminal plugin that exposes your active terminal sessions through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It lets MCP-compatible AI clients discover terminal tabs, execute commands, read terminal buffers, and retrieve long command output.

Install

Client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "server": {
      "command": "pwd"
    }
  }
}
GitHub stars
12
Category
Developer Tools, OS Automation
License
MIT
Updated
Oct 6, 2026

Features

  • MCP server inside Tabby — exposes an SSE endpoint at http://localhost:3001/sse

  • Terminal session discovery — list local and SSH-backed Tabby terminal sessions

  • Command execution — run commands in a selected Tabby terminal tab

  • Robust output capture — simple marker protocol with exit-code parsing

  • Terminal buffer access — read visible/history buffer ranges from a tab

  • Long output pagination — retrieve full command output by outputId

  • Pair programming mode — optional confirmation dialogs and user feedback

  • Docker-based build — reproducible local plugin builds for Tabby

Tools (4)

  • get_ssh_session_list

    List available Tabby terminal sessions

  • exec_command

    Execute a shell command in a terminal tab

  • get_terminal_buffer

    Read terminal buffer content

  • get_command_output

    Retrieve full/paginated command output

Details on this page are taken from the project's README. Open README

Supported clients

Clients mentioned in this server's README:

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