MCP server that runs shell commands. Your LLM gets a tool; you get control over what runs and how.
mcp-shell source profile. From the maintainer documentation: “MCP server that runs shell commands. Your LLM gets a tool; you get control over what runs and how.”
The project provides a local client configuration using docker. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.
The example declares MCP_SHELL_LOG_LEVEL. Secret-looking values have been replaced with placeholders. Required and optional labels are shown only when the documentation states them.
Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.
Check the linked publisher documentation and your connected client's tool list. Names and availability can vary with the server version and account permissions.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| read_file | path, offset, limit, tail |
| list_dir | path, depth, include_hidden |
| glob | pattern, path, newer_than, max_results |
| grep | pattern, path, glob, ignore_case, context, files_only, count, max_results |
| stat | path |
| diff_files | path_a, path_b |
| system_info | |
| git_status | |
| git_log | max_count, ref, path, author, grep, since, until, oneline, follow |
| git_diff | ref, ref_to, staged, path, stat_only, name_only |
| git_show | ref, path, stat_only |
| git_blame | path, ref, line_start, line_end |
| git_branches | all, merged |
| git_tags | pattern |
| git_rev_parse | ref |
| git_ls_files | path, untracked |
| git_stash_list | |
| git_remotes | |
| write_file | path, content, append |
| edit_file | path, old_string, new_string, replace_all |
| mkdir | path |
| move | from, to |
| delete | path, recursive |
| git_add | paths, all |
| git_commit | message, all |
| git_switch | branch, create |
| git_restore | paths, staged |
| git_stash | action, message |
| run_script | name |
{
"mcpServers": {
"shell": {
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"--rm",
"-i",
"sonirico/mcp-shell:latest"
],
"env": {
"MCP_SHELL_LOG_LEVEL": "info"
}
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| MCP_SHELL_LOG_LEVEL | Declared in the maintainer’s client configuration. | Check documentation |
Read, search and edit files inside allowed directories with the Model Context Protocol reference Filesystem server.
Retrieve version-aware library documentation and code examples with Context7 MCP, using resolve-library-id and query-docs.
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Use the Supabase MCP server to inspect database schemas, query project data and retrieve docs through a project-scoped connection.
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