Tappi MCP Is Live — Give Claude Desktop a Real Browser

This is the one I've been waiting for.

Tappi — the tool I introduced in Browser on Autopilot and stress-tested against every alternative — now ships an MCP server.

pip install tappi gives you everything. CDP library, MCP server, and AI agent. No extras. No tappi[mcp] vs tappi[agent]. One install, all features.

What Changed

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the standard that lets AI agents use external tools. When tappi exposes its 24 browser control tools as an MCP server, any MCP-compatible client can use them:

Claude Desktop — ask Claude to browse the web, fill forms, extract data
Cursor / Windsurf — your coding agent can check docs, test deployments, scrape reference data
OpenClaw — tappi is already a ClawHub skill, now with MCP as first-class transport
Any MCP client — tappi speaks stdio and HTTP/SSE

The difference between "Claude that can search the web" and "Claude with a real browser" is enormous:

Logged-in sessions. Your Gmail, GitHub, Jira, Slack — already authenticated.
No bot detection. It's your actual Chrome, with your fingerprint and cookies.
Shadow DOM support. Reddit, GitHub, Gmail — tappi pierces shadow roots automatically.
Cross-origin iframes. Captchas, payment forms, OAuth popups — coordinate commands handle them.

The .mcpb Bundle — Zero-Config Install

For Claude Desktop users who don't want to touch a terminal:

Download tappi-0.5.1.mcpb
Double-click it
Claude Desktop installs the extension
Start Chrome with tappi launch or --remote-debugging-port=9222
Ask Claude to browse

That's it. No pip install, no JSON config editing, no Python environment setup.

Four Ways to Use Tappi

1. MCP Server

tappi mcp        # stdio (Claude Desktop, Cursor)
tappi mcp --sse  # HTTP/SSE (remote clients)

2. OpenClaw Skill

clawhub install tappi

OpenClaw gives tappi access to cron scheduling, multi-session coordination, and cross-tool pipelines.

3. Standalone AI Agent

bpy setup
bpy agent "Go to GitHub trending and summarize the top 5 repos"
bpy serve   # Web UI with live tool-call visibility

Built-in agent with 6 tools and 7 LLM providers — including Claude Max OAuth (use your existing subscription, no per-call charges).

4. Python Library / CLI

from tappi import Browser

b = Browser()
b.open("https://github.com")
elements = b.elements()  # indexed list, shadow DOM pierced
b.click(3)
text = b.text()

Or from the command line:

tappi open github.com
tappi elements
tappi click 3
tappi text

A Note on Rate Limits

Claude Desktop and claude.ai have conservative rate limits. For heavy browser automation — scraping 50 pages, monitoring feeds, running cron jobs — you'll hit throttling.

For serious agentic work:

API key (Anthropic, OpenRouter, OpenAI) via bpy agent
OpenClaw — built for long-running, multi-step agent workflows
Claude Max OAuth via bpy agent — same subscription, better throughput

The .mcpb bundle and Claude Desktop are perfect for ad-hoc tasks. For pipelines and automation, use the agent approaches.

What's Next

Tappi started as a 100KB CDP library. Now it's a full browser automation platform for AI agents — MCP server, standalone agent, web UI, Python library, and Claude Desktop extension.

All from pip install tappi.

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