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Claude Desktop

Anthropic's official desktop app for Claude AI with native MCP support

Native MCP supportDesktop integrationFile access

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Quick Setup

Configure MCP servers in Claude Desktop by editing your config file

macOS

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Windows

%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Linux

~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Example Configuration

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",
        "/path/to/files"
      ]
    },
    "github": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-github"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "your-token-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

1. Open or create the config file at the path shown above

2. Add servers from the list below to your config

3. Restart Claude Desktop to load the new servers

Compatible Servers

181 servers work with Claude Desktop

21st.dev Magic

by 21st-dev

Create crafted UI components inspired by design engineers

ui-componentsdesignreact

AWS

by awslabs

Specialized MCP servers for AWS best practices

awscloudinfrastructure

AWS KB Retrieval

by modelcontextprotocol

Retrieval from AWS Knowledge Base using Bedrock

awsbedrockknowledge-base

AgentQL

by tinyfish-io

Get structured data from unstructured web

web-scrapingstructured-dataextraction

Airtable

by airtable

Airtable database with schema inspection and CRUD

databasespreadsheetapi

Aiven

by aiven

Navigate Aiven projects and interact with PostgreSQL Kafka ClickHouse

postgresqlkafkaclickhouse

Algolia

by algolia

Search indices provisioning and querying

searchindexingapi

Alpaca

by alpacahq

Trade stocks and options analyze market data

tradingstocksmarket-data

Amplitude

by amplitude

Search analyze and query from Amplitude analytics

analyticsproductexperiments

Anthropic API

by anthropic

Access Claude API for AI completions

Apify

by apify

Use 6000+ pre-built cloud tools to extract data from websites and more

web-scrapingdata-extractionautomation

Auth0

by auth0

MCP server for interacting with Auth0 tenant

authidentitysecurity

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