BrowserStack MCP Server

Bring the full power of BrowserStack’s Test Platform to your AI tools, making testing faster and easier for every developer and tester on your team.

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What is the BrowserStack MCP server?

Browserstack mcp server connects BrowserStack to AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. Bring the full power of BrowserStack’s Test Platform to your AI tools, making testing faster and easier for every developer and tester on your team.

What BrowserStack does

Manage test cases, execute manual or automated tests, debug issues, and even fix code—directly within tools like Cursor, Claude, or any MCP-enabled client, using plain English. #### Test from anywhere: Easily connect the BrowserStack Test Platform to your favourite AI tools, such as IDEs, LLMs, or agentic workflows. #### Test with natural language: Manage, execute, debug tests, and even fix code using plain English prompts. #### Reduced context switching: Stay in flow—keep all project context in one place and trigger actions directly from your IDE or LLM.

Installing the browserstack mcp server

Setup follows the standard MCP pattern: clone or install the server, then register it in your client's configuration file and restart the client. The configuration snippets on this page cover Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor.

Configuration

Before the server will start you need to supply 2 environment variables: BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME, BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.

Where it fits

Developer-tool servers are usually the first ones people connect, because they turn "help me with this code" into an assistant that can actually read the repo and act on it. BrowserStack sits in that group. Worth comparing against the other developer tools servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.

Practical notes

  • This is a hosted server — you point your client at an endpoint rather than running a local process, so there is nothing to keep updated on your machine.
  • It will not start until its required credentials are present, so set those before wondering why the tools never appear.
  • MCP clients ask for confirmation before each tool call by default. Keep that on while you learn what the browserstack mcp server actually does with your data.
  • Every entry in this directory is reviewed by hand before it goes live, and details are checked against the project's own documentation.

How to install the BrowserStack MCP server

{
     "mcpServers": {
       "browserstack": {
         "command": "npx",
         "args": ["-y", "@browserstack/mcp-server@latest"],
         "env": {
           "BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME": "<username>",
           "BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY": "<access_key>"
         }
       }
     }
   }

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
BROWSERSTACK_USERNAMEConfiguration value read at startup.Optional
BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEYCredential the server authenticates with.Yes

Frequently asked questions

It connects BrowserStack to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with BrowserStack directly.