# Browser Use (MCP server)

> Browser Use is an MCP server that adds web browsing tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Control a real Chrome browser to complete any task: fill forms, extract data, book flights. It has 117,307 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx browser-use.

Find an available slot, pick a date and time, handle the CAPTCHA, and book a driving test. AI agents and crawlers: read browser-use.com/llms.txt for the product map (open source, Browser Harness, Cloud browsers, Agents API, pricing) and docs.browser-use.com/llms.txt for the documentation index. Browser Use is the open-source browser agent (Python and TypeScript), a $0.02 per browser-hour cloud browser with stealth, CAPTCHA solving and residential proxies, and a hosted agent API.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use |
| GitHub stars | 117,307 |
| License | MIT |
| Language | Python |
| Transport | stdio |
| Packages | pypi: browser-use |
| Remote URL | none |
| Needs API key | no |
| Official | yes |
| Works with | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code |
| Category | Web & browsing |
| Latest release | 0.13.11 (Oct 7, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 7, 2026 |
| MCP registry name | com.browser-use/browser-use |

## Install

### Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "browser-use": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "browser-use"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

### Claude Code

```sh
claude mcp add --transport stdio browser-use -- uvx browser-use
```

### Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "browser-use": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "browser-use"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

### VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json)

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "browser-use": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "browser-use"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Config formats checked against the official docs on 2026-10-07.

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