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Autostarter

Intelligently restarts Claude's MCP handler process without disrupting the user interface.

关于

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.

主要功能

  • 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

使用案例

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