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Kernel MCP Server

Kernel gives Claude on-demand cloud browsers for web automation and agent workflows. Launch browser sessions and drive them with mouse and keyboard actions or Playwright code in a fully sandboxed browser VM. Persist logins with profiles, route traffic through datacenter, residential, or mobile proxies, and pre-warm browser pools for fast acquisition. Deploy and invoke Kernel automation apps, manage API keys and credentials, and capture automatic video replays of every session. Each browser runs in an isolated VM with a live view.

Publisher claimed. 16 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Categorised under productivity, developer-tools, data-analytics. Published by kernel.sh.

Status

Pod has not dialled Kernel yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

Tools

Its publisher lists 16 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://mcp.onkernel.com/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kernel": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.onkernel.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

Most discussed

[Feature request] optional spend-gate hook before cost-incurring actions (manage_browsers, browser_pools, shell)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. manage_browsers (and similarly manage_browser_pools, and the shell/Playwright execution tools) call directly into client.browsers.create(...) with no cost or budget check beforehand. For anyone self-hosting this server to drive an autonomous agent, there's currently no way to cap how much an agent can spend on these actions — a stuck loop or a misbehaving agent could spin up unbounded browser sessions with no ceiling at all

Read the thread · 2026-07-14 · open · external user · 0 comments

MCP server won't add to Codex

[wfisher: ~/Downloads]$ codex mcp login kernel
Authorize `kernel` by opening this URL in your browser:
[redacted url, let me know if safe to paste]

Error: failed to handle OAuth callback

Caused by:
    OAuth token exchange failed: Server returned error response: invalid_grant: Failed to exchange authorization code

Read the thread · 2026-06-27 · open · external user · 0 comments

id_token iss claim doesn't match AS metadata issuer (Clerk/better-auth integration)

Summary

Strict OAuth clients (anything using oauth4webapi, or following RFC 8414 §3) fail token exchange against https://mcp.onkernel.com/mcp with:

Failed to process authorization code response: unexpected JWT "iss" (issuer) claim value

DCR succeeds. The user signs in. /callback fires. /token returns 200 with a body. The client rejects on the id_token's iss claim.

Root cause: your AS metadata advertises one issuer; the `id_t

Read the thread · 2026-05-16 · open · external user · 0 comments

Add Network Diagnostics & Performance Tools to MCP Server

Overview

Add network traffic analysis, resource blocking, and performance monitoring tools to the Kernel MCP Server. This will make Kernel the only MCP server with built in browser diagnostics, enabling users to debug and and further optimize their automations!

Why?

Users currently MIGHT face these issues:

  1. Slow automations - Not being sure of what's slowing them down (ads, trackers, large images?)
  2. Failed automations - No visibility into network errors or failures
  3. **

Read the thread · 2025-10-30 · closed · external user · 0 comments

Redirect screen after authenticating with Goose

After authenticating in Clerk when installing to Goose, the user is taken to a localhost page. Is this expected and can we update this to look a bit nicer if so?

Image

Read the thread · 2025-07-18 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

Firsthand observations

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