Installation

Prerequisites

Requirement	Minimum	Check
Go	1.26.1+	go version

Install

From source

go install github.com/scopweb/mcp-filesystem-go-light@latest

Docker

docker pull ghcr.io/scopweb/mcp-filesystem-go-light:latest

Build locally (Linux / macOS)

git clone https://github.com/scopweb/mcp-filesystem-go-light.git
cd mcp-filesystem-go-light
go build -o mcp-filesystem-go-light .

Build locally (Windows)

git clone https://github.com/scopweb/mcp-filesystem-go-light.git
cd mcp-filesystem-go-light
go build -ldflags="-s -w" -o mcp-filesystem-go-light.exe .

The resulting mcp-filesystem-go-light.exe can be placed anywhere and referenced by its full path in claude_desktop_config.json.

Verify

mcp-filesystem-go-light --help

Run tests

go test ./filesystemserver -v