BrowserTools embeds AI code editors and agents directly into your web browser
1a. Optionally download from Github
2a. Open ‘Manage Extensions’
2b. Enable ‘Developer Mode’ and click ‘Load unpacked’
2c. Navigate to the chrome extension folder downloaded earlier, make sure it’s unzipped and click ‘Select’. You should see BrowserToolsMCP in your list of extensions now!
3a. Go to your ‘Cursor Settings’
3b. Go to Features, scroll down to MCP Servers and click on ‘Add new MCP server’
3c. Give it a unique name (browser-tools), set type to ‘command’ and set command to:
3d. Confirm that the MCP server has been connected. You should see all the tools listed and a green circle next to the tool name.Wait a few seconds or click on the refresh button a few times if it does not register. If it still won’t register make sure you entered the right command.
Downloads/mcp-screenshots
)Error: Screenshot tool is failing
npx @agentdeskai/browser-tools-mcp@1.2.0
instead to explicitly use the latest working version.Issue: Cannot see my screenshots
/mcp-screenshots
directory.
Make sure to check there for the screenshots. Otherwise, you can add a path to save screenshots to in the
BrowserToolsMCP dev tools panel.We suggest creating a screenshots folder in your current project, right click on the folder and click on ‘copy path’. Then paste that into the dev tools panel and press enter.Issue: Not seeing any logs
Issue: Seeing too many logs
Issue: Logs keep disappearing!
Failed to send log to browser-connector?
Issue: Encountering an unknown error