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Claude Desktop MCP Setup

This page is the Claude Desktop half of the setup notes. Claude Code is a different client, with a different file and different commands, on Claude Code MCP setup. The combined page with both remains at Claude.

From the Claude Desktop docs

Claude Desktop's config file locations, as published in the Connect to local MCP servers guide: macOS ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json, Windows %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json. The same guide's filesystem example is below. The paths are the guide's placeholders. This is not a server from our directory.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",
        "/Users/username/Desktop",
        "/Users/username/Downloads"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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