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Filelayer for Claude Desktop

dev.filelayer/core

User files for a SaaS, under one person's authority: list, share with an expiry, revoke.

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Install Filelayer in Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json · windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "core": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@filelayer/core"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATABASE_URL": "<DATABASE_URL>",
        "FILELAYER_AS": "<FILELAYER_AS>",
        "FILELAYER_ORG": "<FILELAYER_ORG>",
        "FILELAYER_DATA_DIR": "<FILELAYER_DATA_DIR>",
        "S3_ENDPOINT": "<S3_ENDPOINT>",
        "S3_BUCKET": "<S3_BUCKET>",
        "S3_REGION": "<S3_REGION>",
        "S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID": "<S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID>",
        "S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY": "<S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>",
        "FILELAYER_MCP_AGENT_LABEL": "<FILELAYER_MCP_AGENT_LABEL>",
        "FILELAYER_MCP_ALLOW_DESTRUCTIVE": "<FILELAYER_MCP_ALLOW_DESTRUCTIVE>",
        "FILELAYER_MCP_EXPOSE_AUDIT": "<FILELAYER_MCP_EXPOSE_AUDIT>",
        "FILELAYER_MCP_RETURN_BYTES": "<FILELAYER_MCP_RETURN_BYTES>",
        "FILELAYER_BASE_URL": "<FILELAYER_BASE_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config opens this file. Restart the app after saving. Claude Desktop docs

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