Axross

One UI for 30+ file, cloud, network, legacy, database, scripting, and MCP workflows.

• 30+ protocols in one window — SFTP, SMB, S3, WebDAV, cloud drives, IMAP, Git, databases and more.
• Copy between any two backends — S3 → SFTP, WebDAV → SMB, directly, no detour via local disk.
• Commander-style multi-pane layout — as many split panes as you like, layout presets, drag & drop.
• Workspaces — named pane layouts as tabs, detachable into their own window, restored on the next start.
• An LLM agent built in — Agent dock with tabs and sandboxes for LM Studio, Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp, read-only by default.
• Talk to the agent — push-to-talk, spoken answers in German and English, speech recognition locally or on the LLM server.
• MCP server and client — LLMs drive axross over stdio or HTTP, and the agent uses the tools of further MCP servers.
• Built-in Python scripting — REPL, Scripts dock and 32 ready-made scripts on one axross.* API.
• Tabbed text editor — syntax highlighting, find/replace, encodings and line endings, for local and remote files.
• Find Files — by name, type, content, size or tag, inside archives too, kept as a Smart Folder.
• Coloured tags — on any file, following renames and moves, a filter in Find Files.
• Disk images and forensics — partitions and file systems, read-only loop mount, hashes, The Sleuth Kit, PhotoRec.
• Media Player — playlist, M3U, shuffle/repeat, 10-band equalizer and spectrum.
• Find duplicates, strip metadata — content-hash duplicate finder, EXIF/GPS removal before sharing.
• Encryption without plaintext on disk — .axenc overlay on any backend, decrypted into RAM only.
• Safe by default — preview before delete/move, operation journal, paranoid mode, SSRF-guarded proxies.
• Resumable transfers — survive Ctrl-C and VPN drops, resume from the last verified segment.
• Archives as folders — browse ZIP, TAR and 7z, nested ones too, extract only what you pick, zip-bomb-safe.
• Extensions — Media Player, Forensic Tools, Treemap, VirtualBox and more, each off until you switch it on.
• Install in one line — pip install axross, or a single-file binary for Linux, macOS and Windows.

Axross is a multi-protocol file manager and security toolkit built with Python and PyQt6. It gives you a split-pane desktop UI, a headless MCP server mode for LLM agents, and a public axross.* Python scripting API from the same package.

The project is currently beta: useful, broad, and actively hardened, but still moving quickly.

Install

Base install:

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install axross
axross

Install the common light protocol extras:

pip install "axross[all]"

Pick individual extras when you only need selected backends:

pip install "axross[smb]"       # SMB / CIFS + DFS-N
pip install "axross[s3]"        # S3-compatible storage
pip install "axross[webdav]"    # WebDAV
pip install "axross[gdrive]"    # Google Drive
pip install "axross[dropbox]"   # Dropbox
pip install "axross[postgres]"  # PostgreSQL-as-FS
pip install "axross[redis]"     # Redis-as-FS
pip install "axross[mongo]"     # MongoDB GridFS
pip install "axross[git]"       # Git-as-FS via dulwich

Heavy or platform-sensitive extras stay explicit:

pip install "axross[winrm]"
pip install "axross[wmi]"
pip install "axross[exchange]"
pip install "axross[fuse]"

On minimal Debian/Ubuntu containers, install Qt loader libraries before launching the GUI:

apt-get update
apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    libglib2.0-0 libgl1 libegl1 libfontconfig1 libxkbcommon0 libdbus-1-3

Headless modes (--help, --script, --mcp-server) work without those GUI libraries.

First Checks

axross --version
axross --help
python -m axross --help
python - <<'PY'
import axross
print(axross.__version__)
print(axross.localfs().list_dir(".")[:3])
PY

Launch modes:

axross                         # desktop GUI
axross --script script.py      # run an axross automation script
axross --mcp-server            # stdio MCP server for local agents
axross --mcp-server --mcp-http 127.0.0.1:7331

What It Can Talk To

Core backends include SFTP/SCP, FTP/FTPS, SMB/CIFS, WebDAV, S3-compatible storage, Rsync, NFS, Azure Blob/Files, OneDrive, SharePoint, Google Drive, Dropbox, iSCSI, IMAP, POP3, TFTP, Telnet, WinRM, WMI/DCOM, Exchange, DFS-N, ADB, MTP, Gopher, NNTP/Usenet, SQLite-FS, PostgreSQL-FS, Redis-FS, MongoDB GridFS, Git-as-FS, PJL printer-FS, SLP discovery, rsh/rcp, Cisco IOS Telnet, and a RAM-only volatile workspace.

Scripting API

The package exposes the same curated API used by the embedded REPL:

import axross

local = axross.localfs()
for item in local.list_dir(".")[:5]:
    print(item.name, item.size)

In the GUI, the bottom Console dock adds persistent history, docs, slash commands, and bundled scripts such as mirror, dedupe, find-secrets, port-scan, SLP inventory, Cisco IOS collection, IMAP archive, checksum diff, and TFTP audit.

Runnable scripting examples ship with the package under examples/scripting_api/. The local examples are tested without network access, and the Docker-lab examples exercise protocol-backed recipes against tests/docker/docker-compose.yml.

Multi-System Workflows

Recent releases add operational workflow verbs on top of the core backends:

• axross.where_was_i() recalls recently touched hosts and paths.
• axross.health_pulse() reports live latency / stale-session state.
• axross.compare_file() and axross.inspect_targets() compare files across hosts and protocols.
• axross.federated_search() fans one query out across many backends.
• axross.resumable_copy() adds checkpoint-resume for cross-backend transfers.
• axross.dashboard() renders one-screen federation status.
• axross.snapshot_now() / axross.start_trail() keep SQLite time-lapse metadata for directory trees.
• axross.serve_s3() and axross.serve_webdav() expose any opened backend through local S3-compatible or WebDAV endpoints.

Credential-testing helpers (axross.bruteforce, axross.spray, axross.enumerate_users) are available for authorised assessments only and require an explicit authorized=True gate.

Safety Defaults

Axross is designed for operational work:

• mutating operations can be previewed
• destructive actions write redacted structured logs
• an append-only operation journal records high-risk actions
• plaintext legacy protocols show credential warnings
• SSRF guards protect proxy hops by default
• paranoid mode can disable scripts, previews, external viewers, legacy protocols, and private proxy overrides

Documentation

• Full README: https://github.com/c0decave/axross
• Installation and extras: https://github.com/c0decave/axross/blob/main/INSTALL.md
• User guide: https://github.com/c0decave/axross/blob/main/docs/USAGE.md
• Scripting: https://github.com/c0decave/axross/blob/main/docs/SCRIPTING.md
• Scripting reference: https://github.com/c0decave/axross/blob/main/docs/SCRIPTING_REFERENCE.md
• Scripting examples: https://github.com/c0decave/axross/tree/main/examples/scripting_api
• Multi-system workflows: https://github.com/c0decave/axross/blob/main/docs/MULTI_SYSTEM.md
• Daily-driver primitives: https://github.com/c0decave/axross/blob/main/docs/DAILY_DRIVER.md
• Reverse-serve: https://github.com/c0decave/axross/blob/main/docs/REVERSE_SERVE.md
• Trail / time-lapse: https://github.com/c0decave/axross/blob/main/docs/TRAIL.md
• Authorised credential testing: https://github.com/c0decave/axross/blob/main/docs/CRED_ATTACK.md
• MCP server: https://github.com/c0decave/axross/blob/main/docs/MCP.md
• OPSEC notes: https://github.com/c0decave/axross/blob/main/docs/OPSEC.md

License

Axross is released under the Apache License 2.0. See the source repository for the full license, notice, and third-party attribution files.