Claude Chrome MCP MCP Server

Developer tool suite enabling Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and other MCP hosts like Cursor, to interact with claude.ai in Chrome browsers.

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What is the Claude Chrome MCP MCP server?

Claude Chrome MCP MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Claude Chrome MCP directly instead of describing what you should do. Developer tool suite enabling Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and other MCP hosts like Cursor, to interact with claude.ai in Chrome browsers.

What you get

  • Async message sending with completion detection
  • Claude-to-Claude response forwarding
  • Conversation management via Claude.ai API
  • Network inspection and debugging tools
  • WebSocket-only architecture with persistent connections
  • Health monitoring endpoint for relay status

What the assistant can call

Once Claude Chrome MCP is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:

  • Claude-to — Claude response forwarding
  • WebSocket — only architecture with persistent connections
  • Guide — Description
  • Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server

Setting it up

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client.

Configuration and credentials

  • Google Chrome browser - Node.js v16 or higher - npm installed

Choosing this one

This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Claude Chrome MCP's toolset — Claude-to, WebSocket, Guide and 1 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by durapensa; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

This entry was verified against Claude Chrome MCP's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.

Before you rely on it

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the claude chrome mcp mcp server does with a few real requests.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
Claude-toClaude response forwarding
WebSocketonly architecture with persistent connections
GuideDescription
PrerequisitesThe Prerequisites tool exposed by this server.

Configuration

  • Google Chrome browser - Node.js v16 or higher - npm installed

Example prompts to try

  • Use Claude Chrome MCP to Claude-to.
  • Use Claude Chrome MCP to WebSocket.
  • Use Claude Chrome MCP to Guide.

Frequently asked questions

You need Google Chrome, Node.js v16 or higher, and npm installed.