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MCP Server Wsl Filesystem

webconsulting/mcp-server-wsl-filesystem

A file system MCP server optimized for WSL, improving file operation performance through native Linux commands, supporting file access and management across Windows and Linux.

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Install

Client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",
        "\\\\wsl.localhost\\Debian",
        "C:\\path\\to\\other\\allowed\\dir"
      ]
    }
  }
}
GitHub stars
1
Author
@webconsulting
Category
File System, Developer Tools
License
MIT
Updated
Oct 6, 2026

About MCP Server Wsl Filesystem

However, this project offers an alternative implementation specifically optimized for WSL Linux distributions.

While the official server works by recursively walking directories using Node.js’s fs module, this implementation leverages native Linux commands inside WSL (such as find, grep, etc.), making file listing and content search operations significantly faster.

Features

  • Access any WSL distribution from Windows

  • Read/write files in WSL from Windows host

  • Create/list/delete directories in WSL

  • Move files/directories across WSL filesystem

  • Search files within WSL

  • Get file metadata from the WSL filesystem

  • Support for multiple WSL distributions

Tools (14)

  • read_file

  • read_file_by_parts

  • read_multiple_files

  • write_file

  • edit_file

  • create_directory

  • list_directory

  • directory_tree

  • move_file

  • search_files

  • search_in_files

  • get_file_info

  • list_allowed_directories

  • list_wsl_distributions

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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