# Chrome DevTools

> Use this tool when you need to automate web interactions, debug web applications, or analyze performance in a real browser environment. It provides inputs such as browser control and outputs like performance traces, console logs, and screenshots, enabling reliable web automation and testing. Ideal for use cases like automated testing workflows, web debugging, and performance optimization, where direct control over Chrome browsers is required.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/chrome-devtools  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/chrome-devtools

## Description

This MCP server provides AI assistants with direct control over Chrome browsers through Chrome DevTools, enabling reliable web automation, debugging, and performance analysis using Puppeteer for browser control and Chrome DevTools for trace recording. Built by Google with TypeScript, it offers 26 tools across categories including input automation (clicking, filling forms, drag-and-drop), navigation (page management, history), network analysis (request inspection, throttling), performance tracing with Chrome DevTools insights, console debugging, and screenshot/snapshot capabilities. The implementation uses accessibility tree snapshots for reliable element targeting, automatically waits for page events after actions, supports CPU and network emulation for testing, and integrates Chrome's performance trace engine for actionable insights, making it valuable for automated testing workflows, web debugging, performance optimization, and building AI assistants that need to interact with live web applications through a real browser environment.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.50
- **Verification tier:** unverified

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** browser-automation
- **Updated:** 2026-05-27

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/chrome-devtools)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/chromedevtools/chrome-devtools-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "chrome-devtools"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/chrome-devtools` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/chrome-devtools/pull`

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