Give ChatGPT
access to your
local computer

Edit documents, organize folders, and run commands on your own machine straight from your chat.

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Organize my Downloads folder
Worked for 42s
Downloads folder organized successfully.
  • •Sorted 214 documents into folders by type.
  • •Grouped screenshots and photos by month.
  • •Moved 1,248 files, nothing was deleted.

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Organize my Downloads folder by file type and month

Find every invoice PDF and rename it by date and vendor

Clean out duplicate files in my Documents

Type it in ChatGPT. Desktop Commander does it on your computer.

This ChatGPT plugin will enable you to

Two superpowers ChatGPT does not have on its own: your files and your terminal.

Work with files on your computer

Read, write, search, and organize real files on your disk. Projects, documents, photos, datasets, without attaching them to the chat.

  • Full read and write access to any folder you allow
  • Search across thousands of files in seconds
  • Batch operations: rename, move, convert, dedupe
Live demo: ChatGPT organizing local files

Work in your machine's terminal

Run commands, scripts, and long running processes in your real terminal. Install packages, run builds, manage git, start servers, and automate anything you could type yourself.

  • Real shell on your machine, not a cloud sandbox
  • Keeps processes running and reads their output
  • Uses the tools you already have installed
your-machine ~ zsh
$git clone github.com/acme/api && cd api
Cloning into 'api'... done.
$npm install && npm test
added 312 packages in 9s
Tests: 47 passed, 1 failed
✦ ChatGPT: the failing test expects a UTC date. Fixing utils/date.ts now.
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Works from your phone

Control your computer from your pocket

The plugin follows your ChatGPT account, not one device. Ask from your phone or any browser and Desktop Commander carries it out on your machine at home.

From any device

Open ChatGPT on your phone and your computer does the work. Kick off a build from the couch, check on it from the street.

Your real machine

Files, terminal, previews, and running processes on your actual computer. Not a sandbox in the cloud.

Always ready

Link one or more machines to your account. As long as a machine is online, ChatGPT can work with it.

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Set up in two steps

No config files, no API keys. About three minutes.

Add the plugin in ChatGPT

Open Desktop Commander in the ChatGPT plugin directory and add it to your account.

Connect your machine

Follow the instructions shown right in ChatGPT. You will run one command in your computer's terminal and your machine appears in the chat.

Add to ChatGPT

Requires running one command in your computer's terminal. Works on macOS and Windows. Disconnect any time.

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