How to install playwright-stealth in your AI client

Setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Cline and VS Code — copy-paste ready.

How to install playwright-stealth in Claude CodeAnthropic's agentic CLI

Add the server

bash

claude mcp add playwright-stealth -e 'PROXY_USERNAME=<PROXY_USERNAME>' -e 'PROXY_PASSWORD=<PROXY_PASSWORD>' -- npx -y playwright-stealth-mcp-server

Fill in your credentials
Replace <PROXY_USERNAME>, <PROXY_PASSWORD> with your real values. Keep secrets out of any config file you commit.
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Verify it's connected
bash
```
claude mcp list
```
Sharing it with your team?
Add `--scope project` to write it to .mcp.json in the repository root, which you can commit (with the secrets left as environment variables).
Use it in a session
Ask Claude to use the tools this server exposes. It discovers them automatically.

How to install playwright-stealth in Claude DesktopDesktop app (MCP config)

Open your MCP config
macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json · Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Add this server

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "playwright-stealth": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "playwright-stealth-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROXY_USERNAME": "<PROXY_USERNAME>",
        "PROXY_PASSWORD": "<PROXY_PASSWORD>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in your credentials
Replace <PROXY_USERNAME>, <PROXY_PASSWORD> with your real values. Keep secrets out of any config file you commit.
Restart Claude Desktop
The tools appear under the 🔌 menu once the app reloads.

How to install playwright-stealth in CursorAI-first code editor

Create / edit .cursor/mcp.json in your project

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "playwright-stealth": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "playwright-stealth-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROXY_USERNAME": "<PROXY_USERNAME>",
        "PROXY_PASSWORD": "<PROXY_PASSWORD>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in your credentials
Replace <PROXY_USERNAME>, <PROXY_PASSWORD> with your real values. Keep secrets out of any config file you commit.
Enable it
Cursor Settings → MCP → toggle the server on. Tools become available to the Composer/Agent.

How to install playwright-stealth in Codex CLIOpenAI coding agent

Add to ~/.codex/config.toml

toml

[mcp_servers.playwright-stealth]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "playwright-stealth-mcp-server"]
env = { PROXY_USERNAME = "<PROXY_USERNAME>", PROXY_PASSWORD = "<PROXY_PASSWORD>" }

Fill in your credentials
Replace <PROXY_USERNAME>, <PROXY_PASSWORD> with your real values. Keep secrets out of any config file you commit.
Run Codex
Codex loads MCP servers from config.toml on startup and exposes their tools to the agent.

How to install playwright-stealth in WindsurfCodeium's agentic IDE

Edit ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "playwright-stealth": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "playwright-stealth-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROXY_USERNAME": "<PROXY_USERNAME>",
        "PROXY_PASSWORD": "<PROXY_PASSWORD>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in your credentials
Replace <PROXY_USERNAME>, <PROXY_PASSWORD> with your real values. Keep secrets out of any config file you commit.
Reload
Windsurf → Cascade → refresh MCP servers. Cascade can now call the tools.

How to install playwright-stealth in ClineVS Code autonomous agent

Open Cline → MCP Servers → Configure
Adds to cline_mcp_settings.json.

Add the server

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "playwright-stealth": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "playwright-stealth-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROXY_USERNAME": "<PROXY_USERNAME>",
        "PROXY_PASSWORD": "<PROXY_PASSWORD>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in your credentials
Replace <PROXY_USERNAME>, <PROXY_PASSWORD> with your real values. Keep secrets out of any config file you commit.

How to install playwright-stealth in VS CodeCopilot / MCP support

Create .vscode/mcp.json

json

{
  "servers": {
    "playwright-stealth": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "playwright-stealth-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROXY_USERNAME": "<PROXY_USERNAME>",
        "PROXY_PASSWORD": "<PROXY_PASSWORD>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in your credentials
Replace <PROXY_USERNAME>, <PROXY_PASSWORD> with your real values. Keep secrets out of any config file you commit.
Start it
VS Code shows a ▶ Start action above the server entry. Agent mode (Copilot Chat) can then use the tools.

What does playwright-stealth need from you?

API key — Proxy authentication username.

STEALTH_MODEoptionalEnvironment variable
Enable stealth mode with anti-detection measures.
STEALTH_USER_AGENToptionalEnvironment variable
Custom User-Agent string for stealth mode.
STEALTH_MASK_LINUXoptionalEnvironment variable
Mask Linux in User-Agent as Windows to avoid fingerprint mismatch.
STEALTH_LOCALEoptionalEnvironment variable
Custom locale for Accept-Language header in stealth mode.
HEADLESSoptionalEnvironment variable
Run browser in headless mode.
TIMEOUToptionalEnvironment variable
Default timeout for Playwright actions in milliseconds.
NAVIGATION_TIMEOUToptionalEnvironment variable
Default timeout for page navigation in milliseconds.
SCREENSHOT_STORAGE_PATHoptionalEnvironment variable
Directory for storing screenshots.
VIDEO_STORAGE_PATHoptionalEnvironment variable
Directory for storing video recordings.
PROXY_URLoptionalEnvironment variable
Proxy server URL for connections.
PROXY_USERNAMEoptionalsecretEnvironment variable
Proxy authentication username.
PROXY_PASSWORDoptionalsecretEnvironment variable
Proxy authentication password.
PROXY_BYPASSoptionalEnvironment variable
Comma-separated list of hosts to bypass proxy.
BROWSER_PERMISSIONSoptionalEnvironment variable
Comma-separated list of browser permissions to grant.
IGNORE_HTTPS_ERRORSoptionalEnvironment variable
Ignore HTTPS certificate errors.

Pass secrets through your shell environment rather than committing them into a config file.

What tools does playwright-stealth expose?

This server runs as a local package. We only query remote servers for their tool list — asking this one would mean executing it, so its tools are listed in the documentation below.

What the code can do

Read from the published package source — never executed. Parsed 16 of 16 source files.

This server can read and write files, read your environment variables and read system information.

How it was published

No provenance attestation — there is nothing linking this published artifact to a specific source commit.
1 npm maintainer — a single point of compromise · last published by tadasant.

Maintainer of this package and think something here is wrong? Tell us and we'll correct it.

Before you install

Signals gathered from the source repo and package registry — not a safety verdict.

What it can reach

Runs code on your machine — Executes as a local process with your user's permissions, including filesystem access.
Downloads at launch — The package is fetched from its registry each run unless you pin a version.

Last commit 19 days ago — Actively maintained.
81 GitHub stars — Community adoption signal.

Client compatibility

Claude Code: NativeClaude Desktop: NativeCursor: NativeCodex CLI: NativeWindsurf: NativeCline: NativeVS Code: Native

Health score

A · 87

Maintenance, adoption, transparency and packaging — not a safety audit. How this is calculated

Maintenance30%100%
Last commit 19 days ago.
Adoption20%58%
81 stars.
Transparency20%75%
3/4: ✓ public source repo, ✓ declared license, ✓ documentation, ✗ discoverable tool list.
Provenance15%100%
Package and registry entry point at the same repository.
Packaging15%100%
Publishes a pinned version (0.2.3).

Documentation

Full README

PulseMCP's MCP Servers

We build reliable servers thoughtfully designed for MCP Client-powered workflows.

Design principles

You can have confidence that any Pulse-branded MCP server was built with these north stars in mind:

Purpose-built. LLM-powered MCP clients offer uniquely new user interaction patterns that necessitate a different layer of abstraction than the REST API's from a pre-AI era. We thoughtfully scope drawing lines like building a new server, versus incorporating a new feature in another server. Or deciding where one slew of REST API endpoints might be better packaged as a single Tool call. And more.
Easy set up. Many MCP servers die before ever getting a chance to be used. We offer guides and a frustration-free experience to get going with our MCP servers inside your favorite MCP clients.
Time savings. By minimizing the number of tool chain steps or conversational turns you need to accomplish a task, our MCP servers will save you (and your agents) time waiting for a task to be completed.
Inference cost savings. By minimizing the number of tokens you need to consume to a accomplish a task, our MCP servers will save you on your LLM inference bills.
Reliability. You should have confidence that you can deploy our servers in a production application serving mass market consumers or business clients.
Future-proof. We sit on the bleeding edge of the MCP specification, working to push the ecosystem forward. As such, you can be sure that if you commit to baking our server into your workflow, it will self-improve over time to take advantage of the latest and greatest MCP features.

Servers Available

Productionized Servers

These are PulseMCP-branded servers that we intend to maintain indefinitely as our own offerings.

The MCP Registry column controls whether the server is published to the official MCP Registry (com.pulsemcp/<server-name>) by the publish-mcp-registry.yml workflow.

| Name | Description | Local Status | Remote Status | MCP Registry | Target Audience | Notes | | -------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | ------------ | ------------- | ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | pulse-fetch | Pull internet resources into context | 0.3.3 | Not Started | Yes | Agent-building frameworks (e.g. fast-agent, Mastra, PydanticAI) and MCP clients without built-in fetch | Supports Firecrawl and BrightData integrations; HTML noise stripping; Resource caching; LLM extraction | | pulse-subregistry | Browse the PulseMCP Sub-Registry | 0.0.8 | Not Started | Yes | Developers discovering MCP servers from the PulseMCP Sub-Registry | Search and pagination; Version selection; Integrates with PulseMCP Sub-Registry API | | image-diff | Programmatic image comparison | 0.1.3 | Not Started | Yes | Developers comparing design mocks against UI implementations | Pixel-level diff with clustering; Heatmap visualization; Anti-aliasing detection; Auto-alignment for different-sized images | | svg-tracer | Bitmap-to-SVG vector tracing | 0.1.3 | Not Started | Yes | Developers converting bitmap images to SVG vector graphics | Supports PNG, JPG, WebP, BMP, GIF, TIFF; Alpha channel preprocessing; Target size scaling; Customizable tracing parameters |

Experimental Servers

These are high-quality servers that we may discontinue if the official provider creates and maintains a better MCP server.

| Name | Description | Local Status | Remote Status | MCP Registry | Target Audience | Notes | | -------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ------------- | ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | agent-orchestrator | Agent parallelization system for agentic coding and ops | 0.8.12 | Not Started | No | PulseMCP team for agent orchestration | Requires AGENT_ORCHESTRATOR_BASE_URL and API_KEY; Internal use only | | appsignal | AppSignal application performance monitoring and error tracking | 0.5.4 | Not Started | Yes | Developers using AppSignal for application monitoring | Requires AppSignal API key; NOT officially affiliated with AppSigna

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Excerpt — the full document is on GitHub.

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playwright-stealth MCP server

At a glance

How to install playwright-stealth in your AI client

How to install playwright-stealth in Claude CodeAnthropic's agentic CLI

How to install playwright-stealth in Claude DesktopDesktop app (MCP config)

How to install playwright-stealth in CursorAI-first code editor

How to install playwright-stealth in Codex CLIOpenAI coding agent

How to install playwright-stealth in WindsurfCodeium's agentic IDE

How to install playwright-stealth in ClineVS Code autonomous agent

How to install playwright-stealth in VS CodeCopilot / MCP support

What does playwright-stealth need from you?

What tools does playwright-stealth expose?

What the code can do

Before you install

Health score

Documentation

Alternatives to playwright-stealth

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