mcp-file-tools

MCP server for file operations on non-UTF-8 text: detects the encoding from the bytes, hands the model UTF-8, and writes back in the original encoding with BOM and CRLF/LF intact. 24 encodings — Cyrillic/CP1251, CP1252, KOI8, ISO-8859, UTF-16, GBK/GB18030.

Installation

MCP client config (paste into mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-file-tools": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "https://github.com/dimitar-grigorov/mcp-file-tools/releases/download/v4.6.2/mcp-file-tools_windows_amd64.exe"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Agent install prompt

Copy and paste into Cursor / Claude / other agents to install this MCP for you

Please read this MCP repository and install it into my current environment:
https://github.com/dimitar-grigorov/mcp-file-tools

Known working client config (can write into mcp.json):
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-file-tools": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "https://github.com/dimitar-grigorov/mcp-file-tools/releases/download/v4.6.2/mcp-file-tools_windows_amd64.exe"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Please: 1) check README for deps and env vars; 2) write config for my client; 3) if secrets are missing, tell me what to fill — do not invent values.

GitHub

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