Is chrome-devtools-mcp still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change today. Latest release chrome-devtools-mcp-v1.12.0, 20 days ago.

Can I trust chrome-devtools-mcp?

Widely used. 55k stars, 1 years old, by an organization. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

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How to install on macOS

ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp

Chrome DevTools for coding agents

Node.js#browser#chrome#chrome-devtools#debugging

Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (Apache-2.0).
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change today. Latest release chrome-devtools-mcp-v1.12.0, 20 days ago.
Can I trust it?: Widely used55k stars, 1 years old, by an organization. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

Difficulty: Easy
Time: about 5 min
Stars: ★ 55,092
Activity: Updated this month

Saved setup from 8 h ago

Will it work on macOS?

Yes, as a library on macOS

It's a library: you add it to your own project (npm i chrome-devtools-mcp@latest -g), there's no app to open.

Your system

macOS Windows Linux

Start here

Website ↗developer.chrome.comThe project's own site.

Use it in your own project

This is a library: you add it to your code rather than opening an app.

Add to your JS project

npm i chrome-devtools-mcp@latest -g

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

Did you get it running?

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Parts list

1×Node.js v24runtime
1×npm package manager

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Good to know

Has AGENTS.md — instructions for coding agents. You can open Claude Code (or another agent) in the cloned folder and ask it to do the setup for you.

Details

License: Apache-2.0
Open issues: 120
Branch: main

package.json scripts (26)

cli:generatenode scripts/generate-cli.ts
cleannode scripts/clean.ts
clean:submodulesnode scripts/clean-submodules.ts
buildnode scripts/ninja.ts
typechecknode scripts/ninja.ts
formateslint --cache --fix . && prettier --write --cache .
check-formateslint --cache . && prettier --check --cache .
gennpm run build && npm run cli:generate && npm run docs:generate && npm run update-metrics && npm run format
docs:generatenode scripts/generate-docs.ts
startnpm run build && node out/Default/gen/src/bin/chrome-devtools-mcp.js
start-debugNODE_DEBUG=mcp:* npm run build && node out/Default/gen/src/bin/chrome-devtools-mcp.js
testnpm run build && node scripts/test.js
test:no-buildnode scripts/test.js
test:onlynpm run build && node scripts/test.js --test-only
test:update-snapshotsnpm run build && node scripts/test.js --test-update-snapshots
preparenode scripts/prepare.ts
gn:gennode scripts/gn-gen.ts
syncnpm ci && git submodule update --init && node scripts/gclient-sync.ts
verify-server-json-versionnode scripts/verify-server-json-version.ts
update-lighthousenode scripts/update-lighthouse.ts
update-metricsnode scripts/update_metrics.ts
verify-npm-packagenode scripts/verify-npm-package.js
evalnpm run build && node scripts/eval_gemini.ts
count-tokensnode scripts/count_tokens.ts
profilenpm run build && node scripts/profile/profile_mcp.ts

Files we read (11)

.github/workflows/conventional-commit.yml

.github/workflows/pre-release.yml

.github/workflows/presubmit.yml

.github/workflows/publish-to-mcp-registry-on-tag.yml

.github/workflows/run-tests.yml

.github/workflows/test-memory-leaks.yml

.gitmodules

.nvmrc

CONTRIBUTING.md

README.md

package.json

402 files in the repo

Yes, as a library on macOS

Start here

Use it in your own project

Did you get it running?

Still stuck? Get a written guide

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