Lightweight MCP server providing terminal access (SSH & local shells) for AI assistants.
Lightweight MCP server providing terminal access (SSH & local shells) for AI assistants. Exposed over MCP by the interminal mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.
Lightweight MCP server that gives AI assistants terminal access — SSH and local shells — with support for interactive and long-running commands.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
connect_ssh — Connect to an SSH server; returns session_id and welcome bannerexecute — Run a command locally (no session needed) or over SSH; returns output or status=partial + command_idread_output — Poll a running command for new output without sending inputrespond — Send text input to a command waiting at a promptsend_control — Send control keys: ctrl+c, ctrl+z, arrow keys, F-keys, etcdisconnect — Close an SSH session and release all resourcesThe server ships on PyPI as mcp-interminal, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Interminal's toolset — connect_ssh, execute, read_output and 3 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by QiuwenZheng; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| connect_ssh | Connect to an SSH server; returns session_id and welcome banner |
| execute | Run a command locally (no session needed) or over SSH; returns output or status=partial + command_id |
| read_output | Poll a running command for new output without sending input |
| respond | Send text input to a command waiting at a prompt |
| send_control | Send control keys: ctrl+c, ctrl+z, arrow keys, F-keys, etc. |
| disconnect | Close an SSH session and release all resources |
{
"mcpServers": {
"interminal": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["mcp-interminal"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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