
Claude Desktop Restart
Automate Claude Desktop restarts on macOS with seamless process termination and relaunch using the Claude Desktop Restar
Installation
Paste the snippet below into your client's config.
Installation
Quick info
- Category
- Productivity
- Transport
- STDIO
- License
- MIT
- GitHub stars
- 5
- Views
- 320
Compatible with
- Claude Code
- Claude Desktop
- codex
- Cursor
- gemini-cli
- VS Code
- Windsurf
Found in: mcp.directory
Overview
Enables automated restarts of Claude Desktop on macOS by leveraging psutil to safely terminate and relaunch the application process.
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