Autostarter

소개

When developing or installing MCP plugins, traditionally, developers must restart the entire Claude Desktop application to load new configurations, significantly disrupting their workflow. Autostarter provides a smarter solution by identifying and gracefully restarting only the specific Node.js process responsible for managing MCP connections. This allows Claude Desktop to automatically recover and re-establish the handler without closing the UI, losing context, or interrupting the user's ongoing work, making plugin development and configuration updates seamless and efficient.

주요 기능

• Graceful shutdown with automatic recovery
• 0 GitHub stars
• Cross-platform support (macOS, Windows, Linux)
• Keeps Claude Desktop UI running intact
• Restarts MCP handler process only
• Intelligent process detection heuristics

사용 사례

• Seamlessly reloading MCP plugins during development
• Applying new MCP configurations without interrupting workflow
• Maintaining UI context while updating Claude Desktop functionality