Give Your AI Access to Files on Windows
Search, list, read and organize files on your Windows PC from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or another MCP client — locally and with confirmation for sensitive changes.
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LMCP··5 min readLMCP exposes local file tools to your AI without uploading your folders to a separate storage service. It can work with ordinary folders, external drives and supported synchronized folders that are available on the PC.
What the Windows file tools do
- List files and folders at a path.
- Search by name or content where supported.
- Read common text and document formats.
- Create files inside the location you specify.
Set it up
- Install LMCP for Windows.
- Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or another supported MCP client.
- Ask it to list a specific test folder first.
- Approve only the write actions you expect.
Example requests
- “Find the latest proposal in my Projects folder.”
- “Summarize the text files in this folder.”
- “Create a meeting-notes file here, but show me the content first.”
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