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browser-use MCP Server

Control a real Chrome browser to complete any task: fill forms, extract data, book flights.

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Published as browser-use on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

92 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

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Bug: MCP server connects but list_tabs/get_state/screenshot fail while navigate works (CDP healthy)

Browser Use Version

browser-use 0.12.6 (uvx) MCP wrapper also tested with 0.12.5, same failure

Bug Description, Steps to Reproduce, Screenshots

root@srv1642813:~# cat /root/bu-local-bug-report.md

bu-local MCP bug report (browser-use bridge)

Date: 2026-05-16 Host: VPS Ubuntu 24.04 + Windows 11 Edge via SSH reverse tunnel

Summary

bu-local MCP server connects and exposes tools, and browser_navigate succeeds, but core state/screenshot/tab tools fail consistently:

  • `browser_li

Read the thread · 2026-05-16 · open · external user · 8 comments

Governance/audit checks for browser automation agents in CI

Browser automation agents are one of the higher-risk agent patterns since they interact with live web content and user data. In production, teams will need to demonstrate audit trails, kill switches, and policy enforcement around these actions.

Right now there's nothing in CI that validates whether agent files have these governance patterns in place. A PR-level check could catch gaps early - missing error handling around browser actions, no logging, no human approval for sensitive operations.

Read the thread · 2026-04-06 · closed · external user · 7 comments

[Feature] Agent-Trust-Score HTTP header — multi-provider trust verification for browser agents

Summary

Browser agents need verifiable trust when interacting with websites. This proposal adds an Agent-Trust-Score HTTP header that carries a signed JWT with trust metadata from any conformant provider.

Related discussion: #4470 (AgentID support for verifiable browser agent identity) Co-authors: @haroldmalikfrimpong-ops (AgentID/HOL) + @0xbrainkid (SATP/AgentFolio)

Motivation

Browser agents currently have no way to prove trustworthiness to websites. Sites must choose betwee

Read the thread · 2026-03-30 · closed · external user · 21 comments

Feature: AgentID support for verifiable browser agent identity

Summary

Browser agents acting on behalf of users need verifiable identity so websites can trust and authorize them. AgentID provides ECDSA P-256 certificates, a verification API, and trust scores for AI agents.

Reference Implementation

AgentID is an open-source identity layer for AI agents:

  • ECDSA P-256 certificates per agent
  • Verification API for runtime credential validation
  • Trust scores for authorization decisions
  • Agent registry for discovery

We have

Read the thread · 2026-03-22 · closed · external user · 13 comments

MCP server: browser_click schema uses oneOf which breaks Claude Code / Claude API clients

Bug

browser_click in the MCP server (introduced in 0.11.13) uses oneOf inside its inputSchema to express "either index OR coordinate_x/y":

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": { ... },
  "oneOf": [
    {"required": ["index"]},
    {"required": ["coordinate_x", "coordinate_y"]}
  ]
}

Claude's API rejects oneOf / allOf / anyOf at the top level of a tool input schema with:

400 tools.N.custom.input_schema: input_schema does not support oneOf, allOf, 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use/issues/4211) · 2026-02-25 · closed · outside contributor · 8 comments

### Most recent

### Security: update exact Click, MCP, and pypdf pins to fixed releases

### Problem

`browser-use==0.13.8` currently pins `click==8.3.1`, `mcp==1.26.0`, and `pypdf==6.14.2` exactly. The public PyPA advisory database reports these versions as affected by:

- Click: `PYSEC-2026-2132` (fixed in 8.3.3)
- MCP: `PYSEC-2026-3481`, `PYSEC-2026-3482`, and `PYSEC-2026-3483` (the highest common fixed floor is 1.28.1)
- pypdf: `PYSEC-2026-3655` and `PYSEC-2026-3656` (fixed in 6.15.0)

Because Browser Use uses exact dependency pins, downstream resolvers cannot select the fixed r

[Read the thread](https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use/issues/5524) · 2026-08-23 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Feature Request: honor BROWSER_USE_HEADLESS in BrowserProfile, not only in the MCP config path

## Problem

`BROWSER_USE_HEADLESS` is documented as an environment variable to control headless mode (see `skills/open-source/references/integrations.md`), but it only actually works when going through the MCP server config path (`browser_use/config.py:472-473`, consumed by `browser_use/mcp/server.py`). When using the library directly — `Agent(...)`, `BrowserSession(...)`, or constructing a `BrowserProfile(...)` — the variable is silently ignored. No error, no warning, it's just a no-op.

This i

[Read the thread](https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use/issues/5420) · 2026-08-09 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Support mcp 2.x (Python SDK): hard pin mcp==1.26.0 blocks 2.0.0

## Summary

`browser-use` hard-pins the MCP Python SDK to `mcp==1.26.0` and cannot be installed alongside `mcp` 2.0.0 (released 2026-07-28). This issue tracks the breaking changes in `mcp` 2.0 that affect browser-use.

### Current pin

`mcp==1.26.0` — `pyproject.toml:39` (main `dependencies`).

### Breaking changes in `mcp` 2.0 that affect browser-use

Verified against the installed `mcp==2.0.0` SDK and browser-use `main`:

1. **Lowlevel `@server.list_tools()` / `@server.call_tool()` decorators 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use/issues/5333) · 2026-07-31 · open · external user · 3 comments

### Bug: MCP server reports tool execution failures with isError=false

### Browser Use Version

0.13.6

### Bug Description, Steps to Reproduce, Screenshots

The native Browser Use MCP server converts tool execution failures into ordinary content lists. The Python MCP SDK consequently emits a normal `CallToolResult` with `isError: false`.

This affects both:

- exceptions caught by `handle_call_tool`, such as CDP connection failures
- expected action failures returned as strings, such as `Element with index N not found`, invalid click arguments, missing sessions, o

[Read the thread](https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use/issues/5252) · 2026-07-18 · open · external user · 3 comments

### feat:  should show tab list and indicate current tab

## Problem

When using the CLI's `state` command, it only shows the content of the current page. However, when an AI agent clicks a link that opens in a **new tab** (e.g., `target=_blank` or middle-click behavior), the `state` output doesn't reflect this — it still shows the old page. The agent has no way to know:

1. How many tabs are currently open
2. Which tab is currently active/focused
3. That a click resulted in a new tab rather than navigation

This causes the agent to get stuck, thinking

[Read the thread](https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use/issues/5251) · 2026-07-18 · open · external user · 3 comments

### Read-only MCP tools have no annotations and are cancelled by Codex exec

I tested the official Browser Use CLI MCP surface with Browser Use `0.11.13` and Codex CLI `0.142.5`.

`tools/list` returned 16 tools with no MCP annotations. That includes clearly read-only operations such as `browser_get_state`, `browser_screenshot`, `browser_list_tabs`, and `browser_list_sessions`.

In a non-interactive Codex run with `approval_policy=never`, the model selected `browser_get_state`, but the runtime returned `user cancelled MCP tool call` and the agent could not report the curr

[Read the thread](https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use/issues/5239) · 2026-07-15 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Bug: <select> with more than 4 options drops the "... N more options..." indicator in serialized DOM

### Browser Use Version

0.13.4 (main @ 68afe464)

### Bug Description, Steps to Reproduce, Screenshots

When the DOM serializer renders a `<select>` that has **more than 4 options**, the "more options" hint that the serializer deliberately generates is silently dropped from the text handed to the LLM.

`DOMTreeSerializer._extract_select_options` (`browser_use/dom/serializer/serializer.py`) builds `first_options` as **up to 4 option labels plus** a trailing `"... N more options..."` indicator:

[Read the thread](https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use/issues/5195) · 2026-07-11 · open · outside contributor · 2 comments

[See all 23 reports Pod holds for browser-use](/mcp/browser-use/issues) — of 92 qualified upstream.

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