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Work across local files and persistent terminals.

What it does

Guides file operations, data analysis, and persistent terminal workflows across the user's computer with Desktop Commander.

When to use it

Use when work needs Desktop Commander capabilities such as persistent sessions, long-running processes, files beyond the workspace, structured documents, or SSH.

How to use it

It changes how the agent uses Desktop Commander to work with files, terminal sessions, processes, and remote machines.

What you provide

  • An existing project
  • Your files

Uses

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What you need · 3

Requires the Desktop Commander MCP, which supplies the tools and their detailed parameter schemas.

Enables the documented local data-analysis workflow using a persistent Python REPL.


Access · 6

This skill

/var/log/app.log

Read

Reads production application logs

ssh

Execute

Starts a persistent SSH session