# remote-shell-mcp

> remote-shell-mcp — jaenster-remote-shell-mcp. Use this tool when you need to establish persistent and stable SSH, SFTP, and Docker connections over MCP, ensuring uninterrupted sessions and tunnels across restarts of various interfaces. It solves problems of session persistence and reliability in remote development environments. The tool accepts connection inputs and provides secure, long-running daemon outputs for stable remote access.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/jaenster-remote-shell-mcp  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jaenster-remote-shell-mcp

## Description

Persistent SSH, SFTP, port forwarding, and Docker over MCP. A long-running daemon so sessions, tunnels, and PTY shells survive across Claude Code / Claude Desktop / Cursor / Codex CLI restarts.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.52
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-03

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** container
- **Runtime environment:** vm
- **Category:** cloud-infra
- **Updated:** 2026-09-21

## Source

- **Source listing:** [GitHub](https://github.com/jaenster/remote-shell-mcp)

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "jaenster-remote-shell-mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jaenster-remote-shell-mcp` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jaenster-remote-shell-mcp/pull`

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