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Charlotte

Charlotte is an MCP server that adds web browsing tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Renders web pages into structured, agent-readable representations using headless Chromium. It has 183 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y @ticktockbent/charlotte.

github.com/TickTockBent/charlotte (opens in a new tab)

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Install Charlotte

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "charlotte": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ticktockbent/charlotte"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio charlotte -- npx -y @ticktockbent/charlotte

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "charlotte": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ticktockbent/charlotte"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "charlotte": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ticktockbent/charlotte"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About Charlotte

Your AI agent burns ~50,000 characters of accessibility tree just to look at the Hacker News front page. Charlotte does it in 364.

  • ai-agents
  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • model-context-protocol
  • typescript
  • web-browsing
  • web-scraping

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FAQ

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How do I install the Charlotte MCP server?

Add the command npx -y @ticktockbent/charlotte to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Charlotte free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Charlotte actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 22, 2026. The latest release is v0.8.0, published Aug 9, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.