Chrome DevTools MCP Server
Google's official server that lets your AI drive a real Chrome: open pages, read console and network, take screenshots and record performance traces.
Use it with Claude or any AI tool. Copy the prompt and paste it in. The link inside gives the AI the whole page as Markdown.
Install
claude mcp add-json chrome-devtools '{"command":"npx","args":["-y","chrome-devtools-mcp@latest"]}'
Adds the server to Claude Code. For other apps, copy the config below.
About
Chrome DevTools MCP is the official server from the Chrome DevTools team. It gives your coding agent control of a live Chrome browser through Puppeteer, so it can open and click through pages, read console messages (with source-mapped stack traces) and network requests, take screenshots, and record performance traces that it turns into concrete insights. It is useful when your AI needs to see what your web app actually does in a browser, not just read the code.
Setup: needs Node.js (LTS) and current Chrome. The browser starts automatically the first time a tool needs it. A good first prompt from the docs: “Check the performance of https://developers.chrome.com”.
Good to know before you connect it: the server exposes everything in that browser to your AI client, so do not use it with a browser profile that holds personal data. Google collects usage statistics by default; add –no-usage-statistics to the args to opt out. Performance tools may send trace URLs to the Chrome UX Report (CrUX) API for real-user data; add –no-performance-crux to stop that.
The repository also ships a Claude Code plugin with extra skills (accessibility, LCP, memory leaks and more): /plugin marketplace add ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp then /plugin install chrome-devtools-mcp@chrome-devtools-plugins.
Licence: Apache-2.0. Credit to the Chrome DevTools team.
Files and links
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Check it before you connect it. This server runs with your permissions:
npx -y chrome-devtools-mcp@latestclaude mcp add-json chrome-devtools '{"command":"npx","args":["-y","chrome-devtools-mcp@latest"]}'