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Anthropic Claude Desktop — MCP-native client, the most common agent runtime

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The de facto default client of the whole MCP ecosystem. When a user says "add a tool to Claude," 99% of the time they mean Claude Desktop + MCP.

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Anthropic Claude Desktop — MCP-native client, the most common agent runtime

Install

Pick your runtime, copy the snippet, paste it into your client config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "claude-desktop": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "claude-desktop"]
    }
  }
}
Prerequisites
  • ·Node.js 20+
  • ·An MCP-compatible client

How it compares

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#1/ 11
top <1%
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#4/ 11
top 27%
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top <1%

Security profile

Open source
Yes
Audited
No
Key handling
Local
Paid
Free

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