A Chrome Extension that turns the DOM into a filesystem — navigate the web with ls, cd, cat, and grep.
Connect Domshell to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. A Chrome Extension that turns the DOM into a filesystem — navigate the web with ls, cd, cat, and grep. The domshell mcp server is what makes that connection.
DOMShell maps the browser into a virtual filesystem. Windows and tabs become top-level directories (~). Each tab's Accessibility Tree becomes a nested filesystem where container elements are directories and buttons, links, and inputs are files. Navigate Chrome the same way you'd navigate /usr/local/bin.
npm on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
Searching — The Searching tool exposed by this serverAutomation — The Automation tool exposed by this serverSystem — The System tool exposed by this serverConfiguration is passed through the environment: API_KEY. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Among the search and retrieval options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Domshell's toolset — Searching, Automation, System — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by apireno; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Searching | The Searching tool exposed by this server. |
| Automation | The Automation tool exposed by this server. |
| System | The System tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"domshell": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "npm"],
"env": {
"API_KEY": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
The simplest web tool that matters — fetch any URL and get model-ready markdown back.
Industrial-strength web extraction — render, scrape, crawl and search entire sites into clean markdown.
Puppeteer-powered browser control that drives pages from the accessibility tree instead of pixels.
Search built for AI, not humans — semantic web search that returns model-ready content, plus code context.
Answers, not links — delegate questions to Perplexity's search-grounded models and get cited responses back.
Put 6,000+ pre-built scrapers at your assistant's fingertips through one MCP endpoint.