We built an MCP for Windows
ask Claude about CPU, temps, and privacy
Details
- External ID
- 47766443
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- We built an MCP for Windows
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4813624678663239
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- windows system monitoring for claude
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that queries local Windows APIs (WMI, PowerShell, or Windows Performance Counters) and exposes them as tools to Claude.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Ollama
Concerns raised: Security/permissions for exposing system-level data through MCP, Whether MCP is necessary (some prefer just the app)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 373 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #204 of 374 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 165 days after the earliest competitor.
- MCP Security Scanning Tool for CI/CD · hn · 2025-11-25 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- bc250-autotune · github · 2026-09-10 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- PC-Monitor · github · 2026-09-25 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- local-workspace-mcp · github · 2026-09-11 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- WonderBox · github · 2026-09-20 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Mole · hn · 2025-12-27 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- MCPs aren't enough, give Codex/Claude accurate memory of everything · hn · 2026-05-26 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- MemSignal · hn · 2026-07-02 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.