Filewash

filewash — privacy-first file tools for AI agents

The file-processing layer for agents and apps that can't send files to a third party. Compress, convert, resize, merge/split PDFs, strip metadata, and remove backgrounds — exposed as an MCP server, a metered REST API, and an npm SDK. Zero-retention by default: files are processed in memory and never stored or logged.

Built from filewash.app's client-side WASM tools. Same logic, now callable by your agents.

Why this exists

Every other file-tools API and MCP server is a wrapper around an upload-to-server service. That's a non-starter for legal, healthcare, finance, and any GDPR-bound workflow — and it's a liability when you're piping documents into an LLM. filewash is the one built around not keeping your files, with two tools nobody else ships as an MCP: background removal and metadata scrubbing.

MCP server (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code)

// claude_desktop_config.json  →  mcpServers
{
  "filewash": { "command": "node", "args": ["/path/to/filewash-api/src/mcp/server.js"] }
}

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View the full README on GitHub