# Clearcote Browser (pypi · clearcote-mcp)

Drive the Clearcote Chromium browser from any MCP client: read pages, click, fill, screenshot.

- Trust score: 79/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- npm · `clearcote-mcp`: 50/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp/clearcote-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp/clearcote-mcp)
- pypi · `clearcote-mcp`: 79/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp/clearcote-mcp-2.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp/clearcote-mcp-2)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `clearcote-mcp`
- Version: `0.3.1`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs setuptools.build_meta at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it.
  - 1 of 37 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 100/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to clearcotelabs/clearcote-browser).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (BSD-3-Clause).
  - Actively maintained (last published 3 days ago).
  - Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 60/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (fair).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 866 tokens (~43/item across 20 items; 20 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 17/100
  - Stability observed for 5 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 67/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 20 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 21 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Clearcote Browser MCP server?

Clearcote Browser runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx clearcote-mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp -- uvx clearcote-mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "clearcote-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "clearcote-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp -- uvx clearcote-mcp
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "clearcote-mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp --command uvx --arg clearcote-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["clearcote-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "clearcote-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp -t stdio -c uvx -a clearcote-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "clearcote-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 79, +16)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-11-04 (score 63, −15)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified

### 2026-11-03 (score 78, +16)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-11-02 (score 62, −15)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified

### 2026-11-01 (score 77, +16)

- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [security] Stability: Stability not yet verified: we do not have a sandbox capture of the MCP schema this version of the package serves yet.
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional regression] Capabilities: pass → unverified
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.3.0 → 0.3.1

### 2026-10-31 (score 61)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (20)

### `navigate` (~40 tokens)

Navigate the current tab to a URL. Returns the resolved url, title, http_status and page_state
(see read_page).

Input parameters:

- `url` (string, required)

### `read_page` (~115 tokens)

Read the current page (or navigate to `url` first) as Markdown (default), its visible "text", or
"both". Also returns http_status (the shown document's; null if unknown) and page_state: "blocked"
(HTTP 401, 403, 429 or 503), "empty" (under 20 characters of visible text) or "ok". Long fields are
cut; markdown_truncated / text_truncated say so.

Input parameters:

- `format` (string)
- `url`

### `get_page_html` (~37 tokens)

Get the HTML of the current page (or navigate to `url` first), inside the untrusted-content fence.

Input parameters:

- `url`

### `page_elements` (~40 tokens)

List the interactive elements (links, buttons, inputs) on the page, one JSON object per line, each
with a selector.

Input parameters:

- `url`

### `click` (~39 tokens)

Click an element by CSS selector or by visible text (navigate to `url` first if given).

Input parameters:

- `target` (string, required)
- `url`

### `fill_field` (~41 tokens)

Fill an input matched by selector, label, placeholder, or name.

Input parameters:

- `field` (string, required)
- `url`
- `value` (string, required)

### `press_key` (~36 tokens)

Press a key on the current page, e.g. 'Enter', 'Tab', 'Control+A'.

Input parameters:

- `key` (string, required)

### `evaluate_js` (~50 tokens)

Evaluate a JavaScript expression in the page and return its (JSON-serializable) result, as JSON
text inside the untrusted-content fence.

Input parameters:

- `expression` (string, required)
- `url`

### `wait_for` (~39 tokens)

Wait until a selector appears (up to timeout_ms).

Input parameters:

- `selector` (string, required)
- `timeout_ms` (integer)
- `url`

### `current_page` (~17 tokens)

Return the current tab's url + title.

### `screenshot_page` (~63 tokens)

Screenshot the current page (or navigate to `url` first), saved under the sandbox dir. Up to
200 KB it is also returned as an image; a bigger one only as its file path (inline: false).

Input parameters:

- `path`
- `url`

### `save_page_pdf` (~37 tokens)

Save the current page as a PDF (headless only). Saved under the sandbox dir.

Input parameters:

- `path`
- `url`

### `get_cookies` (~53 tokens)

Get cookies for the current context (optionally filtered to `url`). Each cookie's name, value, domain and
path are the site's, each between untrusted-content tags on one line.

Input parameters:

- `url`

### `list_tabs` (~22 tokens)

List open tabs (index, url, title, which is current).

### `new_tab` (~28 tokens)

Open a new tab (optionally navigate it) and make it current.

Input parameters:

- `url`

### `close_tab` (~27 tokens)

Close the tab at `index` (from list_tabs).

Input parameters:

- `index` (integer, required)

### `save_profile` (~29 tokens)

Save cookies + storage state to a named profile under the sandbox dir.

Input parameters:

- `name` (string)

### `load_profile` (~28 tokens)

Restore cookies + storage from a named profile (see save_profile).

Input parameters:

- `name` (string)

### `get_egress_info` (~30 tokens)

Report the browser's public egress IP (through any configured proxy) + the active persona.

### `get_cdp_endpoint` (~69 tokens)

Return the stealth browser's raw CDP endpoint so ANY other client (Playwright / Puppeteer /
browser-use / Crawl4AI / Stagehand) can attach to the SAME browser with `connect_over_cdp`,
keeping the stealth persona. This is the whole point of the drop-in model.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp/clearcote-mcp-2#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 79
- 2026-11-04: 63
- 2026-11-03: 78
- 2026-11-02: 62
- 2026-11-01: 77
- 2026-10-31: 61

## Common questions

### What is the Clearcote Browser MCP server?

Clearcote Browser is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.clearcotelabs/clearcote-mcp. Drive the Clearcote Chromium browser from any MCP client: read pages, click, fill, screenshot. This page covers its PyPI package (clearcote-mcp).

### Is the Clearcote Browser MCP server safe to use?

Clearcote Browser scores 79 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. Its build provenance is signed and verified. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Clearcote Browser MCP server expose?

Clearcote Browser exposes 20 tools: navigate, read_page, get_page_html, page_elements, click, and 15 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 840 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Clearcote Browser MCP server still maintained?

Clearcote Browser is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the Clearcote Browser MCP server under?

Clearcote Browser declares the BSD-3-Clause licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/clearcote-mcp/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/clearcote-mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/clearcotelabs/clearcote-browser
- Website: https://clearcotelabs.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp/clearcote-mcp-2.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp/clearcote-mcp-2.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/clearcotelabs-clearcote-mcp/clearcote-mcp-2