ckanthony-chisel
Reduce context usage on file use. Send only unified diffs instead of full files (up to 20-100× fewer tokens), and read large files with targeted `grep`/`sed` instead of full reads (up to 500×). Kernel-enforced path confinement hard-locks the agent to a configured root: no accidental reads or writes outside scope. Standalone for your file access or embed in any MCP server (Rust, Node.js, Python via WASM).
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- as last read from GitHub; most reads are from 2 Sep 2026 or later
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Install
No one-command install. Set it up from its source.
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What it is
Reduce context usage on file use. Send only unified diffs instead of full files (up to 20-100× fewer tokens), and read large files with targeted grep/sed instead of full reads (up to 500×). Kernel-enforced path confinement hard-locks the agent to a configured root: no accidental reads or writes outside scope. Standalone for your file access or embed in any MCP server (Rust, Node.js, Python via WASM).
When to use it
When an agent needs the "File Systems" capability this MCP server exposes.
Source
Migrated from the awesome-mcp-servers navigation directory (category: File Systems). See https://github.com/ckanthony/Chisel.