kde-mcp — computer-use for the Linux desktop
An MCP server that lets an agent actually drive a Linux (KDE Plasma 6 / Wayland) desktop — the kind of capability Anthropic ships for macOS and Windows, still rare on Linux. Built from scratch, solo, in Rust.
The bar before me
Computer-use tooling is mature on macOS and Windows and thin on Linux — and what exists tends to lean on pixel-level screenshots and coordinate clicks, which are brittle and unsafe (a moved window or a re-theme breaks them). Wayland's security model makes naive screen-scraping harder still.
What I built
kde-mcp drives applications through the accessibility tree — the same structured interface a screen reader uses — rather than by clicking pixels. The agent acts on named, typed elements, so actions are more reliable and far easier to reason about and gate. A safety policy layer sits in front of destructive actions, and the design decisions are written down as ADRs rather than living in my head.
- Rust
- language
- KDE Plasma 6 / Wayland
- target
- a11y tree
- drives apps via
- policy gate · ADR
- safety
Verify
It's open source — read the code, the ADRs, and the safety policy:
Public repository — the accessibility-tree approach, the safety gate, and the ADRs are all in the open.