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Conduit MCP

by steipete (community)

MCP server to read, write, find, and list across filesystems and the web. Includes web fetching alongside filesystem operations. 65 GitHub stars and 1 commit on main in the last 30 days.

65·6 tools·Released AUG 2025·MIT
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MCP server to read, write, find, and list across filesystems and the web. Includes web fetching alongside filesystem operations. 65 stars and 1 commit on main in the last 30 days.

Reviewed by M. Nouriel · MAY 2026

INSTALL THIS SERVER

{ "mcpServers": { "conduit": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "conduit-mcp" ], "env": { "CONDUIT_ALLOWED_PATHS": "/Users/me/projects" } } } }
PrereqNPM: `conduit-mcp`. Set CONDUIT_ALLOWED_PATHS to scope filesystem access. Path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS).
{ "mcpServers": { "conduit": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "conduit-mcp" ], "env": { "CONDUIT_ALLOWED_PATHS": "/Users/me/projects" } } } }
{ "mcpServers": { "conduit": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "conduit-mcp" ], "env": { "CONDUIT_ALLOWED_PATHS": "/Users/me/projects" } } } }
{ "mcpServers": { "conduit": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "conduit-mcp" ], "env": { "CONDUIT_ALLOWED_PATHS": "/Users/me/projects" } } } }
{ "mcpServers": { "conduit": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "conduit-mcp" ], "env": { "CONDUIT_ALLOWED_PATHS": "/Users/me/projects" } } } }

6 TOOLS AVAILABLE

read_file
Read a file from the filesystem or a URL
Read
write_file
Write a file to the filesystem
Admin
list_directory
List directory contents with filters
Read
find_files
Find files matching a pattern across directories
Read
fetch_url
Fetch a URL and return the body
Read
search_in_files
Search for text within files (grep-like)
Read

OUR ASSESSMENT

Strengths
  • Combined filesystem + web-fetch surface reduces MCP count.
  • MIT license, 65 GitHub stars.
  • 1 commit on main in the last 30 days.
  • Cross-platform (macOS, Linux, Windows).
  • CONDUIT_ALLOWED_PATHS scopes filesystem access.
Weaknesses
  • Community-maintained; no vendor stamp.
  • Web-fetch surface lacks the structured-extraction features of dedicated tools like Firecrawl.
  • Tool surface is a superset of the Anthropic reference filesystem MCP; some operators prefer the narrower official server.
Security Notes

Operator must set CONDUIT_ALLOWED_PATHS to scope filesystem access. Without an allowlist, the server can read any path the host process can access. fetch_url can reach arbitrary URLs; consider an HTTP allowlist for production agent flows.

Best For

Developers who want one MCP for both local files and remote URLs; agents that need ad-hoc grep across the workspace; minimal-config setups where mounting the official anthropic filesystem MCP plus a separate web-fetch tool is overkill.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Language
typescript
Transport
stdio
Clients
Claude DesktopClaude CodeCursorVS CodeWindsurf
License
MIT
GitHub
npm
conduit-mcp
Last Release
conduit-mcp (npm latest)MAY 6, 2026
First Released
AUG 1, 2025

ADOPTION METRICS

// GitHub Stars
65

// Reading this65 stars on steipete/conduit-mcp. 1 commit on main in the last 30 days.

// Popularity Rank
#3
Globally · #3 in Filesystem

// Reading thisPairs with the existing filesystem (Anthropic reference) and google-drive-mcp entries for filesystem-category coverage. Conduit adds combined fs+web surface.

SOURCES & VERIFICATION

We don't take any single directory's word for it. Before scoring, we cross-reference 3 public MCP sources, install the server ourselves against the clients we cover, and record when we last re-verified.

01
Discovered
Manual submission
First indexed MAY 6, 2026
02
Cross-referenced
3 directories
PulseMCP, MCP.so, Glama
03
Verified against
Claude Desktop, Cursor
Installed and tested across clients
04
Last re-checked
MAY 6, 2026
Weekly re-verification
// How other directories see it

The same server, 3 different lenses. We reconcile these signals into our editorial score, which is why our number sometimes diverges from a directory-aggregate star count.

SourceTheir ratingTheir star countTheir downloadsLast synced
AutomationSwitch This page4editorial65MAY 6, 2026
PulseMCP— unratedunavailableunavailableMAY 6, 2026
MCP.so— unratedunavailableunavailableMAY 6, 2026
Glama— unratedunavailableunavailableMAY 6, 2026

// Counts are directory-reported; we don't adjust them. Discrepancies usually come from different snapshot times or star-caching.

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