Browser Use
Browser agents and stealth cloud browsers for AI: run web tasks, fill forms, extract data.
제작자가 쓴 설명(영어 원문)
Self-hosted MCP server: sandboxed browser, desktop, vision, code-edit packs for any agent.
이 세 가지는 절대 하나의 점수로 합치지 않아요. 의견, 측정, 인기는 서로 다른 것이니까요.
이 서버는 아직 쉬운 말로 된 요약을 쓰지 못했어요. 아래는 레지스트리에서 읽어 온 사실이에요.
쓰고 있는 AI 앱을 고른 다음 설정을 복사하세요.
HELMDECK_URL, HELMDECK_TOKEN비밀로 표시된 값은 내 계정의 열쇠예요. 절대 다른 사람과 공유하거나 채팅에 붙여 넣지 마세요.
필요한 것
어떤 앱을 쓰세요?
위에서 앱을 고르세요. 기억해 두었다가 다음부터는 버튼에 “…에 설치”라고 표시해요.
Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config를 열고 claude_desktop_config.json에 이 내용을 붙여 넣으세요
{
"mcpServers": {
"helmdeck": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@helmdeck/mcp-bridge"
],
"env": {
"HELMDECK_URL": "your-value",
"HELMDECK_TOKEN": "your-value"
}
}
}
}터미널에서 이 명령어를 실행하세요
claude mcp add helmdeck --env HELMDECK_URL=your-value --env HELMDECK_TOKEN=your-value -- npx -y @helmdeck/mcp-bridge실행하기 전에 빈 값을 채워 주세요.
프로젝트의 .cursor/mcp.json 또는 ~/.cursor/mcp.json에 붙여 넣으세요
{
"mcpServers": {
"helmdeck": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@helmdeck/mcp-bridge"
],
"env": {
"HELMDECK_URL": "your-value",
"HELMDECK_TOKEN": "your-value"
}
}
}
}브라우저가 앱을 열지 물어본 다음, 앱이 설정을 보여 주고 확인을 요청해요. 키 값은 비워 두니 직접 입력하세요.
프로젝트의 .vscode/mcp.json에 붙여 넣으세요
{
"servers": {
"helmdeck": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@helmdeck/mcp-bridge"
],
"env": {
"HELMDECK_URL": "your-value",
"HELMDECK_TOKEN": "your-value"
}
}
}
}브라우저가 앱을 열지 물어본 다음, 앱이 설정을 보여 주고 확인을 요청해요. 키 값은 비워 두니 직접 입력하세요.
이 서버는 내 컴퓨터에서 실행되는데, ChatGPT는 인터넷에 있는 서버에만 연결할 수 있어요. 다른 앱을 고르세요.
선택한 앱은 이 기기의 쿠키에만 저장돼요. 계정은 필요 없어요.
이 설정은 제작자의 레지스트리 정보로 만들었어요. README와 다르면 README를 따르세요.
내 컴퓨터에서 실행돼요. 설치하면 AI 앱에 도구 목록이 나타나요.
누구나 볼 수 있는 정보를 점검했고, 코드는 읽지 않았어요. 해당하지 않는 항목은 개수에서 뺐어요. · 2026년 11월 6일 점검
레지스트리 이름이 GitHub 계정 tosin2013 기준으로 확인되었고, 이 계정이 저장소를 소유하고 있어요
아직 GitHub에서 이 저장소를 읽어 오지 않았어요
아직 GitHub에서 이 저장소를 읽어 오지 않았어요
내 컴퓨터에서 실행되는 서버라 인터넷 엔드포인트가 없어요
내 컴퓨터에서 실행되며, 대신 로컬 설정을 사용해요
내 컴퓨터에서 실행돼요. 도구 목록은 인터넷 엔드포인트가 있는 서버에서만 읽을 수 있어요
레지스트리에서 이 카테고리의 활성 서버 전체와 비교했어요. 스타는 게시자가 저장소를 소유한 경우에만 세요.
해당하는 기본 점검 1개 중 1개를 통과했어요. 코드는 읽지 않았어요. 키나 토큰을 넣기 전에 서버가 어떤 권한을 요구하는지 확인하고, 꼭 필요한 권한만 있는 키를 쓰세요.
입력해야 할 값: HELMDECK_URL, HELMDECK_TOKEN
내 컴퓨터에서 실행돼요. AI 앱이 필요할 때 실행하고, 데이터는 제작자의 서버를 거치지 않아요(서버 자체가 온라인 서비스를 호출하는 경우는 제외).
GitHub 저장소는 마지막으로 – 변경됐고, 최신 버전(0.29.10)은 5개월 전 레지스트리에 올라왔어요.
Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code처럼 MCP를 지원하는 앱에서 쓸 수 있어요. 내 컴퓨터에 Node.js, Docker도 있어야 해요.
같은 카테고리에는: Browser Use, Chrome DevTools MCP, MCP Server Browser
같은 카테고리에서 다른 제작자가 만든 서버예요. 스타 순으로 정렬했어요.
카드 보는 법:★ GitHub 스타i세 기둥: 리뷰 · 점검 · 사용 정도i업데이트 = 최신 버전을 레지스트리에 공개한 날i
Browser agents and stealth cloud browsers for AI: run web tasks, fill forms, extract data.
MCP server for Chrome DevTools
MCP server for browser use access
제작자의 저장소에서 쓰인 그대로 가져왔어요. PopNx MCP가 검토하거나 보증한 내용이 아니에요. HTML, 이미지, 스크립트는 제거했어요. 링크를 누르면 이 사이트를 벗어나요.
Today's helmdeck install ran a full 6-step code-edit loop (clone, read, patch,
test, commit, push) on
gpt-oss-120bfor $0.07. The same loop on Cursor
or Claude Code direct via Sonnet would have cost $0.30+. Same outcome,
~5× cheaper — and the "expensive" stack isn't even the most expensive option.
| Workflow | Frontier-model approach | Helmdeck (gpt-oss-120b) |
|---|---|---|
| Browser scrape + GitHub comment | $0.25 (Anthropic Computer Use) | $0.005 |
| Code edit loop (6 steps) | $0.35 (Cursor / Aider) | $0.07 |
| Multi-step browser test | $0.20 (Browser-use NL) | $0.03 |
| PDF → structured Markdown | $1.00 (naive Sonnet vision) | $0.003 |
Most browser agents require GPT-4o or Claude Sonnet to work reliably.
Helmdeck is built for the other 99% of deployments — **local 7B models,
air-gapped environments, and teams that can't send credentials to a
cloud API.** It wraps every browser, desktop, git, and code action
into a single typed JSON call that even a small model can fill in correctly.
The numbers above are the consequence: when packs absorb the work the
LLM would otherwise burn tokens rediscovering, cheap or local models do
agentic work that frontier-model APIs charge 10× more for.
A self-hosted, containerized platform for AI agents, exposed as Capability Packs — schema-validated, one-shot JSON tools — and native MCP. The defining metric is ≥90% pack success on 7B–30B-class open-weight models, something no frontier-targeting competitor is optimizing for.
📊 Full per-task comparison with reproduction recipe at https://helmdeck.dev/explanation/why-helmdeck. These are one maintainer's findings; we welcome community reproductions.
Smart models thrive on bash and a README. Weak models stall on open-ended interfaces. Helmdeck closes that gap by hiding browser sessions, desktop actions, credentials, and multi-step workflows behind single typed REST / MCP calls.
Three audiences specifically:
v0.22.0 shipped — *agents that work on free models, with memory.* The release closes ADRs 047–050:
helmdeck.route meta-pack recommends the best pack/pipeline for an intent (with structured gap warnings when nothing fits), backed by per-caller learned defaults surfaced through the helmdeck://routing-guide and helmdeck://my-defaults MCP resources and a Routing Memory management UI.helmdeck.memory_store persists durable user facts (read back via helmdeck://my-memory), an optional embedding sidecar powers OpenClaw's memory_search, and a QMD corpus bridge exposes helmdeck memory to OpenClaw.helmdeck.plan turns a multi-action prompt into an ordered, pipeline-aware step plan plus a rewritten_prompt.internal/llmcontext compacts catalog-heavy prompts to fit small-model context budgets (tiered per-model budgets, cascading select + lexical rank, optional two-pass filter), surfaced through helmdeck://context-budgets and helmdeck://my-plans.57 capability packs ship in the control-plane binary (47 without an AI gateway configured), alongside 21 built-in pipelines, a community pack marketplace (helmdeck pack install ), and operator-supplied cmd.* subprocess packs. Earlier headline features remain: end-to-end content chaining (image.generate auto-feeds podcast/slides/blog covers), the helmdeck://image-models MCP resource, image-mode install (./scripts/install.sh --image-mode), and the Pack Test Runner UI. Helmdeck is published to the official MCP Registry as io.github.tosin2013/helmdeck for one-line install in registry-aware clients. Phases 1–6.5 are complete; the current milestone is v1.0 — Kubernetes & GA (Phase 7), with backlog materialised as GitHub issues tagged good first issue and help wanted.
docs/adrs/ — every architectural decision with PRD back-referencesdocs/TASKS.md — ~85 tasks across 8 phases with critical pathdocs/MILESTONES.md — drop-in issue checklists with current ship statedocs/PACKS.md — every shipped pack's input/output contractgit clone https://github.com/tosin2013/helmdeck
cd helmdeck ./scripts/install.sh
That's it. The script runs preflight checks (docker, node ≥20, go ≥1.26, make, openssl, curl) with platform-aware install hints, generates fresh secrets into deploy/compose/.env.local (chmod 600), builds the Management UI bundle, the Go binaries, and the browser sidecar image, brings the Compose stack up, and prints the URL plus a freshly generated admin password.
✓ helmdeck is up
URL: http://localhost:3000 Username: admin Password:
Useful flags:
./scripts/install.sh --reset — tear down, regenerate secrets, reinstall (new admin password)./scripts/install.sh --no-build — skip build steps, just bring the stack up./scripts/install.sh --help — full flag referenceOr via make: make install.
A running stack is just the platform — the value is packs called by an agent. Wire one of the supported MCP clients to your fresh install:
| Client | Status | Setup guide |
|---|---|---|
| OpenClaw | ✅ validated end-to-end | docs/integrations/openclaw.md |
| Claude Code | 🟡 documented | docs/integrations/claude-code.md |
| Claude Desktop | 🟡 documented | docs/integrations/claude-desktop.md |
| Gemini CLI | 🟡 documented | docs/integrations/gemini-cli.md |
| Hermes Agent | 🟡 documented | docs/integrations/hermes-agent.md |
Once a client is connected, work through the pack-demo-playbook.md — 20+ copy-pasteable prompts that exercise every pack. The per-pack reference covers each pack's contract, error codes, and chained workflows.
If you'd rather drive each step yourself instead of running the install script:
# 1. Build the Management UI bundle (needs Node 20+)
make web-deps && make web-build
make build
HELMDECK_JWT_SECRET=$(openssl rand -hex 32) \ HELMDECK_VAULT_KEY=$(openssl rand -hex 32) \ HELMDECK_ADMIN_PASSWORD=changeme \ ./bin/control-plane
Or use the Compose stack directly (control plane + Garage object store + bundled init):
cp deploy/compose/.env.example deploy/compose/.env.local
docker compose -f deploy/compose/compose.yaml --env-file deploy/compose/.env.local up -d
The login endpoint accepts a static admin password set via the HELMDECK_ADMIN_PASSWORD env var on the control plane process. Suitable for the dev / single-node Compose tier; OIDC SSO for production deployments lands in a later phase.
| Setting | Default | Override |
|---|---|---|
| Username | admin | HELMDECK_ADMIN_USERNAME env var |
| Password | *(none — UI login disabled)* | HELMDECK_ADMIN_PASSWORD env var (required) |
| Session length | 12 hours | Hardcoded in internal/api/auth_login.go |
To change the password: stop the control plane, set HELMDECK_ADMIN_PASSWORD to the new value, and restart. There is no in-UI "change password" flow today — the password is managed out-of-band by whichever orchestrator runs the control plane (Compose, systemd, Kubernetes Secret, etc.).
If `HELMDECK_ADMIN_PASSWORD` is unset, the login endpoint returns 503 login_disabled. The control plane still runs and the API still works — operators can mint a JWT directly via the CLI:
./bin/control-plane -mint-token=alice -mint-token-scopes=admin -mint-token-ttl=12h
The minted token can be pasted into any tool that speaks Authorization: Bearer .
Production note: the static-password path uses constant-time comparison so it's safe against timing attacks, but it's still a shared secret that has to be rotated by hand. For production deployments with multiple operators, OIDC SSO via your existing identity provider is the right answer — see the Phase 6 follow-up roadmap.
helmdeck-mcp bridge binary (ADRs 025, 030)57 packs ship in the box (47 without an AI gateway configured). Each one hides a multi-step workflow behind a single typed JSON-Schema call so weak open-weight models can drive it as reliably as frontier models. The full input/output contract for every pack lives in docs/PACKS.md. The highlights:
| Pack | What it hides |
|---|---|
| Browser & web | |
browser.screenshot_url | Session lifecycle, navigation, render wait, cleanup |
browser.interact | Deterministic multi-step CDP (navigate, click, type, scroll, screenshot, assert_text) — no LLM needed |
web.scrape / web.scrape_spa | Firecrawl-backed markdown scrape OR schema-driven SPA extraction |
web.test | Natural-language browser tests via Playwright MCP + LLM loop |
research.deep | Multi-source Firecrawl search + per-source scrape + LLM synthesis with inline citations |
content.ground | Parses a markdown file for claims, finds authoritative sources, inserts real [link](url) citations in place |
| Document & vision | |
slides.render | Marp + Chromium + format flags |
slides.narrate | Narrated MP4 video (ElevenLabs TTS per slide) + YouTube engagement metadata + sidecar SRT captions + structured validation field (default-on post-step) |
| av.validate | Structured AV-artifact validation (faststart, codec pin, packet contiguity, RMS swee
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