filesystem-mcp

MCP Server that enables LLMs to interact with the local filesystem.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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Open source with a license and README

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: FILESYSTEM_MCP_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configCODEX_HOME

🔐 secretFILESYSTEM_MCP_API_KEY— _(none)_ Bearer token required when binding HTTP to a non-loopback host

configFILESYSTEM_MCP_HTTP_HOST— 127.0.0.1 HTTP server bind address

configFS_CONTEXT_LIST_CURSOR_TTL_MS— 300000 (5 min) Cursor TTL for ls pagination snapshots

configFS_CONTEXT_MAX_INLINE_CHARS— 20000 Max inline result chars before externalizing to filesystem-mcp://result/{id}

configFS_CONTEXT_MAX_INLINE_MATCHES— 50 Max inline search matches before truncation

configFS_CONTEXT_SEARCH_WORKERS_DEBUG— false Debug logging for search worker pool

configFS_CONTEXT_STRIP_STRUCTURED— false Strip outputSchema from tool definitions (reduces tokens)

configFS_INIT_HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT_MS

configFS_INIT_TIMEOUT_CLOSE

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commit: 86f6fe860b3d8071a07e333ffffa8be9493625a1

code hash: c7aec59a8c93b0325776e8ab39dd44a8bdce8bfbe355dfce7fad3993fa33c8fd

verified: 6/13/2026, 10:50:20 AM

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