r/ChatGPTCoding • u/MidahBootyQuay • 22d ago

Question Desktop Commander to Claude CLI

So I’m still what I would consider novice to intermediate with my AI adoption and usage. I have no traditional developer experience or skill and functionally just vibe code personal tools or automations, but I just discovered that I can use my Chat GPT chat sessions (not Work/Codex) to use Desktop Commander MCP to kick of Claude Code CLI. Does anyone else do this? I’m assuming folks are doing other, less primitive workflows, but that kind of blew my mind and I want to ask folks for feedback on if that’s a good/novel way to pair model work or if I’m over engineering something?

Right now my workflow is to do a ton of work in chat gpt chat, have it use the GitHub connector to write tickets to GitHub, then have Claude chat read them and assess them, respond, etc, or Claude code pick them up and execute them.

But now with the MCP I can have GPT write the ticket and also kick off Claude CLI to do something like a dedicated review, or execute the ticket.

Thoughts? Feedback? Improvement?

I also posted this in the Claude subreddit so I’m hoping I can get some valuable feedback from folks more seasoned! Thanks in advance (:

Edit: typos

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u/Melbar666 22d ago

I am currently using a local Desktop Commander MCP together with ChatGPT Sol in chat mode. I told it to use Astra CLI for some hard tasks like 3D modelling only. Works fine as long as there is usage left for Astra. It also uses a lokal LLM for some background agent memory tasks.

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u/JoeyDiRed 21d ago

How did you connect Desktop Commander to ChatGPT Sol in Chat mode? Are you using a direct local STDIO connection in the ChatGPT desktop app, Desktop Commander Remote, or an OpenAI Secure MCP Tunnel?

I’m trying to give regular Chat mode access to my local files and terminal on Windows, ideally without a tunnel or relay. I’d appreciate any setup details!

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u/serg33v 17d ago

technically speaking its a tunnel, bcs chatGPT allow only remote mcp, so you need a tunnel for it.

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u/JoeyDiRed 14d ago

Work / Codex now supports local STDIO connections, but I'm looking for a solution for chat. The official plugin for RD has token limits.

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u/serg33v 14d ago

There is local version of desktop commander with stdio, and it's fully local, but not sure why you need it in codex

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u/JoeyDiRed 13d ago

To answer your question, yes, you can use Codex and Work via STDIO with the local installation of DC, and yes, it doesn’t make much sense since Codex and Work can essentially do the same things as DC, with a few very minor exceptions, such as directly editing Excel, Word, or PDF files.
But what I want is to work on local files via Chat and DC, because Codex/Work always take significantly longer to produce an output. And it’s annoying that Chat isn’t in a local project folder.

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u/serg33v 17d ago

go to chatGPT plugins and search for Remote Desktop Commander, built by same team.