MCP

I gave claude-code a desktop presence for long coding sessions with a Noctalia Shell v5 plugin.

MCP servers run with your full user permissions by default. Here's what that means, what can go wrong, and how container isolation bounds the damage.

MCP servers run as you. Same UID, same permissions, full access to your home directory, your SSH keys, and your cloud credentials. Here's why that's a problem and what I did about it.

On building a local AI workflow that doesn't disappear between sessions: how noctalia, memd, and mcp-box fit together into something that actually works.