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Install SSH MCP Server in Claude Code

What you need first

  • Claude Code, installed.
  • Node.js, which gives the npx command the server starts with.
  • Your own value for YOUR_SSH_PROFILES_FILE.

Steps

  1. Run this in a terminal, in the project folder. It adds the server for you in that project; put --scope user after claude mcp add to have it in every project.
claude mcp add --env SSH_PROFILES_FILE=YOUR_SSH_PROFILES_FILE --transport stdio ssh-mcp-server -- npx -y @hypnosis/[email protected]
  1. Replace YOUR_SSH_PROFILES_FILE with your own value.
  2. Start Claude Code and type /mcp: the server is listed with its state.

Check it worked

Ask Claude Code: List the tools of ssh-mcp-server.

If it does not start

spawn npx ENOENT
Node.js is not on the PATH that Claude Code sees. Install it, or write the full path of npx in the config.
The server starts, but its tools fail
A YOUR_… placeholder is still in the config, or its value is wrong.

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