interactive-terminal

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add interactive-terminal -e MCP_TERMINAL_MAX_SESSIONS=... -e MCP_TERMINAL_SANDBOX=... -e MCP_TERMINAL_REDACT_SECRETS=... -- npx -y mcp-interactive-terminal

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "interactive-terminal": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-interactive-terminal"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TERMINAL_MAX_SESSIONS": "...",
        "MCP_TERMINAL_SANDBOX": "...",
        "MCP_TERMINAL_REDACT_SECRETS": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

MCP server for real interactive terminal sessions — REPLs, SSH, databases, Docker

Questions

interactive-terminal is a local MCP server distributed as the npm package mcp-interactive-terminal.

Run: claude mcp add interactive-terminal -e MCP_TERMINAL_MAX_SESSIONS=... -e MCP_TERMINAL_SANDBOX=... -e MCP_TERMINAL_REDACT_SECRETS=... -- npx -y mcp-interactive-terminal

Run: codex mcp add interactive-terminal --env MCP_TERMINAL_MAX_SESSIONS=... --env MCP_TERMINAL_SANDBOX=... --env MCP_TERMINAL_REDACT_SECRETS=... -- npx -y mcp-interactive-terminal

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