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Unix Manual Server (MCP)

Unix Manual Server (MCP)

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About Unix Manual Server (MCP)

Unix Manual Server (MCP) is an MCP server for LLM conversations that provides documentation and availability information for Unix commands. It helps users look up command usage without running arbitrary commands.

Key features

  1. 01Retrieve help and man pages
  2. 02List common commands by function
  3. 03Check command availability and version

Use cases

  1. 01Look up grep usage documentation
  2. 02Discover commands available on a system
  3. 03Check whether awk is installed

MCP support

It exposes tools to MCP clients for retrieving Unix command documentation, listing commands, and checking command availability.

#mcp#unix-manual#model-context-protocol-servers

Configuration

Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.

No install method listed yet

We haven’t collected a package or remote endpoint for this server. Follow the instructions in the project README.

Repository

Tools

No tool list yet

Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.

Details

From the project README

Unix Manual Server (MCP)

An MCP server that provides Unix command documentation directly within Claude conversations.

Features

  • Get command documentation: Retrieve help pages, man pages, and usage information for Unix commands
  • List common commands: Discover available commands on your system, categorized by function
  • Check command existence: Verify if a specific command is available and get its version information

Installation

Prerequisites
Setup
  1. Clone this repository
  2. Install the package:
pip install -e .
# or
uv install -e .
  1. Install the server in Claude Desktop:
mcp install unix_manual_server.py
# uv
uv run mcp install unix_manual_server.py

Usage

Once installed, you can use the server's tools directly in Claude:

Get command documentation
I need help with the grep command. Can you show me the documentation?
List common commands
What Unix commands are available on my system?
Check if a command exists
Is the awk command available on my system?

Development

To test the server locally without installing it in Claude:

mcp dev unix_manual_server.py

Security

The server takes precautions to prevent command injection by:

  • Validating command names against a regex pattern
  • Executing commands directly without using shell
  • Setting timeouts on all command executions
  • Only checking for documentation, never executing arbitrary commands

Logging

Logs are saved to unix-manual-server.log in the same directory as the script, useful for debugging.

  • use @modelcontextprotocol/inspector with npx under the hood.
uv run mcp dev unix_manual_server.py

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run unix_manual_server.py

License

MIT

Created with the MCP Python SDK. For more information about MCP, visit modelcontextprotocol.io.

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