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Scout MCP Server

Browser automation MCP server with 84 tools. Pure CDP, DOM diffing, vision hybrid.

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Status

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Connect

Published as ghcr.io/felixgeelhaar/scout:1.10.0 on oci. Runs locally.

Known issues

13 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 10.

Most discussed

Stability + UX bugs surfaced during E2E driving of a Vue/Astro app

Feedback after using scout MCP (scout 1.6.1) to drive a full E2E walkthrough of a Vue + Astro + Go app (brotwerk). Most-impactful fix at top.

Stability bugs

  1. Stale CDP node IDs after framework re-render. click, type, fill_form_semantic cache CDP node refs from prior annotated_screenshot / observe. When Vue/React reconciles, refs invalidate but tools still use them → cryptic cdp: error -32000: Could not find node with given id. Fix: re-resolve selector to live nodeId at a

Read the thread · 2026-05-20 · closed · 1 comment

Expose video recording (Playwright recordVideo) via MCP

Problem

Scout exposes `start_recording` / `stop_recording` / `save_playbook` / `replay_playbook` — but those record an action playbook (JSON of clicks/types for replay), not a screen video.

For demo / docs / landing-page work, the value is the video (MP4 / WebM) that you can embed. Playwright already supports this natively via `browser.newContext({ recordVideo: { dir, size } })` — scout just doesn't expose it.

Workaround

Call Playwright directly:

```js const ctx = a

Read the thread · 2026-05-02 · closed · 1 comment

CDP connection stability + React compatibility issues

Summary

While using Scout extensively to automate and demo a React SPA dashboard (go-teamhealthcheck), I encountered several issues that made the experience unreliable. Filing them together since they came up in the same session.

Environment

  • Scout MCP server (via Claude Code)
  • Target: React 19 SPA with react-router-dom v7, served from Go backend on localhost
  • Both headless and visible modes tested

Issues

1. Frequent CDP

Read the thread · 2026-03-26 · closed · 1 comment

screenshot: add save_to_disk / output_path so captures return a file path instead of base64

Problem

screenshot and annotated_screenshot return a base64 data URL inline. For an agent driving scout on behalf of a user, that image lands in the agent's context — it renders for the model but never reaches the human. There is no way to hand the capture over.

Encountered while running a scripted end-to-end walkthrough with screenshot milestones: every capture came back as base64, and the user simply saw nothing.

Current workarounds, both bad

  1. Force an overflow. Request

Read the thread · 2026-08-01 · closed · 0 comments

No viewport / device emulation: width params don't set the CSS viewport (responsive testing impossible)

Summary

There is no way to set the browser viewport size / emulate a device through the MCP tools. Width parameters that look like they should control it (screenshot.max_width, start_screen_recording.width/height) only affect the output image / capture frame, not the page's CSS viewport. As a result, width-based @media breakpoints can't be exercised, so mobile/responsive layouts can't be verified.

Repro

  1. configure { headless: true, fresh: true } (also reproduces with

Read the thread · 2026-06-28 · closed · 0 comments

Most recent

type should report committed value after framework microtask flush

Problem

type returns the typed string immediately:

{selector: "input[type=email]", value: "x@y.z", action: "typed"}

But on frameworks with two-way binding (Vue v-model, Svelte bind:value), the value may be transformed, sanitized, or never committed. Caller has no way to know without a separate observe.

Proposal

Mirror what fill_form_semantic already does:

{
  selector: "input[type=email]",
  typed: "x@y.z",
  committed: "x@y.z",            // re-read after rAF + microtas

[Read the thread](https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/22) · 2026-05-22 · closed · 0 comments

### annotated_screenshot: add stable node_handle alongside per-call label

## Problem
`annotated_screenshot` warns that labels are per-call only — re-shuffled on any DOM mutation. Multi-step flows (annotate → click → annotate again) can't reliably reference the same node, forcing the caller to recompute selectors.

## Proposal
Return a stable `node_handle` per element alongside the per-call label number:

{label: 7, node_handle: "h_a3f2", selector: "button.mode-tab", text: "Mit Passwort", ...}

- `node_handle` valid for as long as the node is alive (weak ref).
- 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/19) · 2026-05-22 · closed · 0 comments

### Form submission silently fails: click_label on type=submit and dispatch_event(submit) don't fire @submit handlers

## Summary

Scout cannot drive form submission on a Vue 3 island that uses `@submit.prevent`. The handler never fires; no network request is dispatched; no console error surfaces. Two approaches both silently no-op:

1. `click_label` on the `<button type=\"submit\">` inside the form
2. `dispatch_event` with `event_type: \"submit\"` on the `<form>` element

The result is that Scout can fill a form (Vue v-model reactivity confirmed via `framework_reactive: true`), but cannot complete the canonical

[Read the thread](https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/13) · 2026-05-17 · closed · 0 comments

### wait_for / click failures lack diagnostic context

**Scout version**: 1.5.0 (30010ef)

## Problem
`wait_for` and `click` on a missing or stale selector return MCP error -32603 with the selector echoed back, but no information about what *was* present. Forces a manual fallback to `observe` to figure out why the selector didn't resolve.

## Repro
\`\`\`
click({ selector: "#tabgroup-access" })
\`\`\`
when the actual tabs render under `#tabgroup-sharing` (parent group):
\`\`\`
MCP error -32603: browse: timeout waiting for wait for selector on "#tabg

[Read the thread](https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/8) · 2026-05-10 · closed · 0 comments

### Allow loopback / private-IP navigation for local-dev workflows

## Problem

Scout currently blocks navigation to loopback addresses with:

\`\`\`
browse: blocked navigation to private/loopback IP 127.0.0.1
\`\`\`

This is sensible default for the public-web automation case, but it makes scout unusable for the *very common* dev workflow of "drive the local app I just built": vite/webpack/next dev server on localhost, locally-running daemon on a custom port, etc.

## Repro

\`\`\`
mcp.scout.navigate({url: \"http://127.0.0.1:4173/\"})
// → MCP error: failed to 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/3) · 2026-05-02 · closed · 0 comments

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