BREAKING
Chrome ships chrome-devtools-mcp
How agents debug live in Chrome
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Read console errors
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Inspect DOM & network
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Run Lighthouse & traces
MCP vs plain automation
chrome-devtools-mcp
MCP
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DevTools-specific insights
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Lighthouse & memory analysis
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Natural-language control
Puppeteer
Automation
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Scripted browser control
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No DevTools reasoning
Open source, local, private
Preview now, v1.0 by May 2026
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Public preview Sep 2025
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v1.0 stable ~May 2026
Bridging looks done and works
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Google's Chrome team just gave AI coding agents native browser debugging.