Conduit MCP
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.
“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.”
INSTALL THIS SERVER
{
"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"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"conduit": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"conduit-mcp"
],
"env": {
"CONDUIT_ALLOWED_PATHS": "/Users/me/projects"
}
}
}
}
6 TOOLS AVAILABLE
OUR ASSESSMENT
- 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.
- 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.
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.
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
ADOPTION METRICS
// Reading this65 stars on steipete/conduit-mcp. 1 commit on main in the last 30 days.
// 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.
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.
| Source | Their rating | Their star count | Their downloads | Last synced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationSwitch This page | 4editorial | 65 | — | MAY 6, 2026 |
| PulseMCP | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 6, 2026 |
| MCP.so | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 6, 2026 |
| Glama | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 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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