FTPie MCP Server - Your Storage, in Your AI Assistant

One server instead of six

Single-provider MCP servers each need their own install, their own authorization, and their own entry in your client configuration. Three clouds means three of everything - and none of them can talk to each other, so "copy the signed contract from Dropbox to the archive on my NAS" is not a thing any of them can express.

FTPie already holds those connections. You set an account up once in the app, and the MCP server exposes all of them through one endpoint - the same accounts, the same credentials, the same engine the GUI uses. Cross-storage transfer is not a bolt-on here; moving a file from one provider to another is what the app is built around, so the assistant gets it for free.

What it will be able to do

• Browse and search - list folders, read metadata, search by name, total up folder sizes, across any connected storage
• Read a file - fetch a document so the assistant can actually work with its contents
• Move things - upload, download, copy, move and rename, including directly between two different providers
• Organize - create folders, delete with confirmation, tidy up a directory
• Ask you - open FTPie's file picker so you choose the file, rather than the assistant guessing at paths

The part a headless server cannot do

Every other file MCP server runs invisibly. It has no window, so it cannot show you anything, cannot ask you anything, and cannot let you watch what it did. FTPie has a window - and that turns out to be the interesting half:

• Pick a file in a real dialog. The assistant asks for a file; FTPie's browser opens; you choose it. No pasted paths, no guessing, no accidental wrong folder.
• Documents open in FTPie. Ask it to show you a file and it appears in FTPie's own viewer or editor - not as a wall of text in the chat.
• Transfers you can see. Anything it moves runs through the normal transfer queue, with progress, speed and a cancel button. Nothing happens invisibly in the background.
• Review round-trips. "Open this contract, let me read it, then apply the changes we discussed and put it back" - open, wait for you, edit, re-upload, as one flow.

Your credentials never reach the model

Handing an AI assistant access to every cloud account you own deserves more care than a config file full of API keys. The design rule is simple: credentials stay in FTPie. Passwords, OAuth tokens and refresh tokens are never sent to the model or included in any tool result - the assistant works with opaque references to files instead. Destructive actions ask for confirmation, and because the work runs through the app, you see it happen. Local-only by design, like the rest of FTPie - see the security page.

Storage it will cover

Everything FTPie already connects to - if you can browse it in the app, the MCP server can reach it:

• Clouds - Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive (personal and Business), Box, pCloud, MEGA, Koofr, OpenDrive
• Servers - FTP and FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV
• Self-hosted and NAS - Synology, QNAP, Nextcloud, ownCloud, SeaFile, any SMB share
• Object storage - Amazon S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, DigitalOcean Spaces

What you can do today

While this is in development: several providers publish their own MCP servers, and if you only need one storage, those are a reasonable place to start - Anthropic and Google both document connecting Google Drive, and there are community servers for Dropbox, S3 and the local filesystem. They cover one provider each, which is exactly the limitation this feature exists to remove.

If you want scriptable access to all your storage right now, that already exists and is not waiting on anything: the FTPie CLI drives the same connections from PowerShell, a batch file or CI, with structured exit codes and --json output. An AI assistant that can run shell commands can already use it - the MCP server is about doing that properly, with confirmations, a picker and a visible transfer queue.

Common questions

Related

• FTPie CLI - scriptable file transfers, available now
• All FTPie features and all supported storage
• Transfer files between cloud accounts