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Chrome DevTools MCP MCP Server

MCP server for Chrome DevTools

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Connect

Published as chrome-devtools-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

408 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.

Most discussed

Support isolatedContext page-scoped tool routing for multi-agent workflows

Problem

PR #991 adds isolatedContext to new_page, enabling agents to create pages with isolated cookies, storage, and sessions. However, all subsequent tools (take_screenshot, take_snapshot, navigate_page, evaluate_script, emulate, click, fill, press_key, etc.) resolve their target page via the global getSelectedPage(). This means agents must call select_page before each operation, which introduces a race condition in multi-agent workflows.

The internal mutex seriali

Read the thread · 2026-02-23 · closed · outside contributor · 23 comments

Accessibility tree/element(s) snapshot - exposing semantics, roles, states, ARIA,...

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I miss more functionality to extract accessibility information from DevTools with MCP. One basic thing that would be a great start is perhaps an snapshot of the accessibility tree (probably as an extension to the "text-only" snapshot or similar.

Describe the solution you'd like Add a feature for accessibility tree snapshot of the whole page or of a single selector (CSS, XPATH) or a group of selectors (CSS, XPATH) - so that I

Read the thread · 2025-10-13 · closed · external user · 23 comments

A tool to "Select an element in the page to inspect it"

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Select an element in the page to inspect it could arguably be the most used Chrome Dev Tools "tool".

This allows the (human) programmer to focus on just that part of the DOM he is interested in. On the other hand, most tools we put in the hands of AI agents today always give back the full DOM. The AI is then forced to first filter out all the irrelevant parts leading to the context window filling up extremely fast, and the ag

Read the thread · 2025-10-04 · open · external user · 26 comments

Cannot connect to the Chrome-devtools mcp server using the claude code

Describe the bug claude code showed it's failed to reconnect to chrome-devtools when I reconnect it.

Image

To Reproduce

  1. exec command: claude mcp add chrome-devtools npx chrome-devtools-mcp@latest
  2. exec command: claude code
  3. found 1 mcp failed

<img width="1034" height="94" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9eeb7289-7809-4319-967

Read the thread · 2025-09-27 · closed · external user · 31 comments

Problem to locate chrome.exe on windows 64 bits.

Describe the bug I'm trying to use chrome-devtools MCP with Cursor on windows 10 64 bits. I spent my full day trying to make it work, but I failed. The problem is that it never finds chrome.exe, even when I use --executablePath option.

To Reproduce Use cursor and windows 64 bits. Add the MCP server using mcp.json like this :

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chrome-devtools": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "chrome-devtools-mcp@latest",
        "--",
        "--executablePa

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp/issues/148) · 2025-09-25 · closed · external user · 35 comments

### Most recent

### Isolated/temp-profile Chrome survives MCP death on macOS (puppeteer_dev_chrome_profile orphans, ppid=1)

## Summary

On macOS, Chrome instances launched by `chrome-devtools-mcp` via Puppeteer's **temporary profile** (`puppeteer_dev_chrome_profile-*`) keep running after the MCP server process is gone. They reparent to `launchd` (`ppid=1`) and accumulate for hours.

This is **not** "please add a close-browser MCP tool" (#484) and **not** "idle page CPU in connected mode" (#2599). It is also distinct from #1765, where SIGTERM of a still-alive MCP server *does* clean up Chrome. The hole is: **MCP dies 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp/issues/2621) · 2026-08-26 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Question: optional release-evidence gate for MCP artifact workflows

Hi maintainers — I’m maintaining a small, independent downstream consumer for the experimental MCP Registry #1404 receipt shape: https://github.com/yandexuanxuan/mcp-evidence-gate

Would you be open to trying one optional `workflow_dispatch` job on a fork or branch that verifies a release artifact with this immutable Action reference?

    yandexuanxuan/mcp-evidence-gate@7b1569284e321976b4b61378c223ce6a28fbdb9b (v0.1.0-alpha.1)

The Action does not scan source, install packages in the consumer r

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp/issues/2616) · 2026-08-26 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### docs(security): add a HOL Guard client-side tool-call protection example

### Context

`SECURITY.md` correctly puts validation of inputs, including tool calls and parameters, on the calling agent/client, and recommends client-side precautions against prompt injection. There is currently no concrete example showing users how to put a pre-tool security gate in front of `chrome-devtools-mcp`.

### Proposal

Would you be open to a small optional documentation addition, ideally in `SECURITY.md` or the security-facing usage docs, for **HOL Guard** as a client-side protectio

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp/issues/2611) · 2026-08-24 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Long-lived server can retain active page indefinitely and keep consuming CPU after client activity stops

### Summary

On a long-lived self-hosted `chrome-devtools-mcp` 1.7.0 deployment, a page left open after an agent finishes can continue consuming substantial CPU indefinitely even though there are no MCP tool calls in flight.

This appears distinct from the 1.6.0 memory/source-map issues in #2431 / #2456, which are marked fixed in 1.7.0. The problem here is lifecycle: an active page remains live forever unless the client explicitly navigates it away/closes it or the server/browser process is recy

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp/issues/2599) · 2026-08-20 · open · external user · 3 comments

### Logpoints: log runtime values without modifying source code

### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When an agent needs to know what a page actually *does* at runtime — which branch
ran, what a value held, in what order events fired — its only real option today is to
edit the source, add `console.log`, rebuild, reload, read the output, and then remove
the calls again. That has four costs:

1. It's a **write to the user's codebase to answer a read-only question**, and stray
   `console.log` calls get left behind and committed.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp/issues/2584) · 2026-08-17 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Lighthouse secondary fetches can cross --allowed-url-pattern after redirects

### Description of the bug

In `chrome-devtools-mcp@1.7.0`, Lighthouse secondary fetches for
`/robots.txt` and `/llms.txt` can follow an HTTP redirect from an allowed
origin to an origin excluded by `--allowed-url-pattern`.

The direct control behaves as expected: a normal subresource request from the
audited page to the excluded origin is blocked and the excluded server receives
no request. During `lighthouse_audit`, however, the same excluded server
receives the redirected `/robots.txt` and `/

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp/issues/2567) · 2026-08-12 · closed · external user · 8 comments

### Large Audits backlog starves all page-facing tool calls

### Description of the bug

When `chrome-devtools-mcp` connects to a long-lived Chrome session whose page targets have accumulated a large DevTools Audits backlog, page-facing MCP tools consistently time out even though the browser-level CDP endpoint and every individual page target remain responsive.

In the affected session, the MCP process repeatedly writes:

```text
No handler registered for issue code PerformanceIssue

This looks like a regression or broader consequence of #1850 / #1852

Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · external user · 9 comments

See all 24 reports Pod holds for Chrome DevTools MCP — of 408 qualified upstream.

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