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Remote Shell MCP — DevOps skill for Claude Code

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Persistent SSH, SFTP, port forwarding, and Docker over MCP.

How to install Remote Shell MCP

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open jaenster/remote-shell-mcp and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Remote Shell MCP does

Persistent SSH, SFTP, port forwarding, and Docker over MCP. A long-running daemon so sessions, tunnels, and PTY shells survive across Claude Code / Claude Desktop / Cursor / Codex CLI restarts.

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README

remote-shell-mcp

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**Persistent SSH, SFTP, port forwarding, and Docker over the [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io). Open the connection once — sessions, tunnels, and PTY shells survive across Claude Code / Claude Desktop / Cursor / Codex CLI restarts.**

`remote-shell-mcp` is a [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server that gives any MCP client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, OpenAI's Codex CLI, …) a real toolbox for working on remote machines and containers — `ssh_exec`, persistent PTY shells with state preserved between calls, `-L`/`-R`/`-D` port forwards, SFTP round-trips, Docker over `unix://`, `tcp://`, or `ssh://`, container lifecycle, image pulls, and `docker_run`.

It runs as a daemon. Your MCP client talks to a tiny stdio launcher that auto-spawns the daemon on first use and proxies over SSE. The daemon outlives every client restart, every Claude Code reload, every "did the bridge just hang up?" — so the `vim` you opened over a PTY, the SOCKS proxy you set up to reach a database, the keepalive on a flaky link, all keep running.

┌──────────────┐   stdio    ┌──────────────────────┐    SSE/HTTP    ┌────────────────────────┐
│ Claude Code  │ ◀────────▶ │ remote-shell-mcp     │ ◀───────────▶ │ remote-shell-mcpd      │
│ (or Cursor,  │   JSON-RPC │ stdio launcher       │  Bearer token │ daemon: SSH sessions,  │
│ Desktop, …)  │