guild vs filesystem

Side-by-side comparison to help you pick between these two MCP servers.

	guild by mathomhaus	filesystem by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 190	★ 85,748
30d uses	—	—
Score	51	77
Official	—	✓
Categories	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsProductivity	File SystemDeveloper ToolsProductivity
Language	Go	TypeScript
Last commit	this month	this month

guild · Summary

Go-based MCP server providing shared context and task coordination for AI coding agents with hybrid search.

filesystem · Summary

A feature-rich MCP server for filesystem operations with dynamic directory access control.

guild · Use cases

Coordination between multiple AI coding agents working on the same project
Knowledge retention across different AI client sessions
Parallel development with task dependencies and atomic claims

filesystem · Use cases

Enable AI models to read and write project files during development
Allow Claude or other MCP clients to browse and analyze codebases
Provide secure sandboxed access to specific directories for content generation

guild · Install

Installation Options

**Recommended (with semantic retrieval):**

curl -fsSL https://github.com/mathomhaus/guild/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sh
guild --version

**Via Homebrew:**

brew install mathomhaus/tap/guild

**From source:**

git clone https://github.com/mathomhaus/guild
cd guild
make install   # includes semantic retrieval assets

Project Setup

cd ~/projects/myapp
guild init  # interactive setup process

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add to Claude Desktop's config.json:

"mcpServers": {
  "guild": {
    "command": "guild",
    "args": ["serve"]
  }
}

filesystem · Install

Installation

Using NPX

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",
        "/path/to/allowed/directory"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Using Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "--mount", "type=bind,src=/path/to/allowed/dir,dst=/projects/allowed/dir",
        "mcp/filesystem",
        "/projects"
      ]
    }
  }
}

VS Code Extension

Click the installation buttons in the README to install directly in VS Code.

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