🦊 Camoufox Playwright MCP

The Playwright MCP, on Camoufox. Same tools, harder to detect.

The Playwright MCP tool set, in Python, on Camoufox. Built for sites that fingerprint or block the default browser.

Highlights • Quickstart • Client Setup • Connection Modes • Configuration • Tool Reference • Divergences

⚡ Highlights

• 🦊 Camoufox by Default: Runs Camoufox, a Firefox build with fingerprint spoofing built in (navigator.webdriver masked, canvas/WebGL/audio randomized, hardware details spoofed).

• 🎭 Same tool set as @playwright/mcp, runs on Camoufox. Drop-in for the official server's tool contract (browser_navigate, browser_click, browser_snapshot, browser_evaluate, browser_localstorage_*, and the rest). Camoufox masks navigator.webdriver and randomizes canvas, WebGL, and audio per session. Switch to Chromium, Chrome, Firefox, or WebKit when you don't need stealth.

• 🐍 Python-Native Code Generation: Emits clean Python Playwright code snippets instead of JavaScript strings:

  await page.get_by_role("button", name="Submit").click()

• 🔄 Dual Engine Flexibility: Run camoufox by default, or switch to standard Playwright engines (chromium, chrome, firefox, webkit), remote CDP endpoints, or browser extensions.

• 🚀 Zero-Install with uvx: Run on-demand in Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, OpenCode, or any MCP client without manual virtualenv management.

Related MCP server: wraith-mcp

🤔 What this is (and isn't)

This server gives you the same tool set as @playwright/mcp: browser_navigate, browser_click, browser_snapshot, and the rest. Drop it into an existing client config and your prompts keep working.

The browser underneath is different. Camoufox is a Firefox build with anti-fingerprinting built in. navigator.webdriver is masked, canvas and WebGL and audio outputs are randomized per session, and hardware details are spoofed. Useful when the site you're driving detects or blocks the default browser. Switch to Chromium, Chrome, Firefox, or WebKit when you don't need that.

Not affiliated with Microsoft or the Playwright team. The browser-level fingerprinting work lives in Camoufox; this server wires it into the MCP tool contract.

🚀 Quickstart

Run On-Demand with uvx

No installation required. Needs Python 3.12+ (uvx handles this). The first launch downloads the Camoufox browser (~150MB, one time), so the first tool call can take a few minutes; after that it starts instantly:

# Run the Camoufox browser in headless mode (recommended for AI agents)
uvx camoufox-playwright-mcp --headless

# Pre-download the browser ahead of time ("all" also installs Playwright browsers)
uvx camoufox-playwright-mcp install-browser all

# Run with visible browser window (headed mode)
uvx camoufox-playwright-mcp

# Switch to standard Chrome / Chromium
uvx camoufox-playwright-mcp --browser chrome --headless

# Enable storage & developer capabilities
uvx camoufox-playwright-mcp --headless --caps=storage,devtools,vision

💻 MCP Client Configuration

1. Claude Desktop

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

• Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "camoufox": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "camoufox-playwright-mcp",
        "--headless"
      ]
    }
  }
}

2. Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json)

Add to your Cursor MCP settings (Cursor Settings > MCP > Add New MCP Server):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "camoufox": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "camoufox-playwright-mcp",
        "--headless"
      ]
    }
  }
}

3. Cline / Roo Code / Windsurf / Zed

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "browser": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "camoufox-playwright-mcp",
        "--headless"
      ]
    }
  }
}

4. OpenCode (opencode.json)

{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "camoufox": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": ["uvx", "camoufox-playwright-mcp", "--headless"],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}

🌐 Transports (stdio & Streamable HTTP)

By default, the server uses stdio transport.

Passing --port starts a Streamable HTTP server listening at /mcp:

uvx camoufox-playwright-mcp --headless --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8931

Client configuration for HTTP transport:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "camoufox": {
      "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8931/mcp"
    }
  }
}

🔌 Browser Modes & Connections

1. Persistent Profiles (Default)

By default, the server launches a persistent browser context using an auto-created profile under the user cache directory (~/.cache/camoufox-playwright-mcp/), preserving session state, logins, and cookies across runs:

# Explicit persistent profile directory
uvx camoufox-playwright-mcp --user-data-dir ~/.config/my-browser-profile

2. Isolated Ephemeral Sessions

Use --isolated to run with a temporary, in-memory context that leaves no trace on disk:

uvx camoufox-playwright-mcp --isolated --headless

3. Connect to Existing Browser over CDP

Connect to an existing Chromium / Chrome instance started with --remote-debugging-port=9222:

uvx camoufox-playwright-mcp --cdp-endpoint http://localhost:9222

4. Connect to Bound Playwright Endpoint

Connect to a remote Playwright browser server:

uvx camoufox-playwright-mcp --endpoint ws://localhost:3000

5. Playwright Browser Extension Relay

Attach directly to your existing Chrome or Edge browser tabs via the Playwright Browser Extension:

uvx --from 'camoufox-playwright-mcp[extension]' camoufox-playwright-mcp --extension

🦊 Camoufox Configuration

When running with --browser camoufox (default), you can customize Camoufox's browser parameters via a JSON configuration file (--config config.json):

{
  "browser": {
    "provider": "camoufox",
    "camoufoxOptions": {
      "geoip": true,
      "humanize": true,
      "os": "windows",
      "block_images": false,
      "fonts": ["Arial", "Calibri", "Times New Roman"]
    }
  }
}

Key Camoufox Options

⚙️ Configuration (JSON & INI)

Configuration is merged with the following precedence (highest priority last):

1. Built-in defaults (browser: camoufox, action timeout: 5000ms, output: file).

2. JSON or INI configuration file (via --config or CAMOUFOX_MCP_CONFIG).

3. Environment variables (CAMOUFOX_MCP_* or PLAYWRIGHT_MCP_*).

4. Explicit CLI arguments.

INI Configuration Example (camoufox.ini)

capabilities = storage,devtools,vision
console.level = info
timeouts.action = 8000
timeouts.navigation = 45000
browser.contextOptions.viewport = 1280x720

Load with:

uvx camoufox-playwright-mcp --config camoufox.ini

🌐 Environment Variables

All CLI flags can be set via environment variables:

(Note: PLAYWRIGHT_MCP_* variables are also supported for backward compatibility).

🧰 Available MCP Tools

Same tools as the official Playwright MCP server:

Navigation & Interaction

• browser_navigate: Navigate to any URL with automatic wait-for-load.

• browser_click: Click elements using locators, coordinates, or semantic text.

• browser_type: Fill input fields (fill semantics, Camoufox humanized typing where available).

• browser_fill_form: Fill multiple form fields in one call.

• browser_hover, browser_type, browser_press_key: Natural mouse and keyboard interactions.

• browser_file_upload: Upload files to file input elements.

• browser_drag, browser_drop: Perform drag-and-drop operations.

Inspection & Output

• browser_snapshot: Capture full accessibility and semantic tree snapshots.

• browser_take_screenshot: Capture full-page or element screenshots.

• browser_evaluate: Safely evaluate JavaScript within the page context.

• browser_console_messages: Retrieve console logs and error streams.

Storage & State (Enable with --caps storage)

• browser_localstorage_list, browser_localstorage_get, browser_localstorage_set, browser_localstorage_delete, browser_localstorage_clear

• browser_sessionstorage_list, browser_sessionstorage_get, browser_sessionstorage_set, browser_sessionstorage_delete, browser_sessionstorage_clear

• browser_cookies: Get, set, and clear cookies.

• browser_storage_state, browser_set_storage_state: Save and restore full storage state files.

Tabs & Network

• browser_tabs: Manage multiple tabs (list, switch, create, close).

• browser_network: Manage routing and network interception.

• browser_handle_dialog: Accept or dismiss JavaScript alerts, confirms, and prompts.

🔬 Intentional Python Divergences & Limitations

This server is designed to follow the official Playwright MCP public contract while providing a Python-native experience:

• Python Code Generation: Upstream @playwright/mcp generates JavaScript snippets; this server generates native Python Playwright snippets (await page.get_by_role(...).click()).

• browser_run_code_unsafe: Executes asynchronous Python Playwright code directly against the active page instance.

• browser.initPage: Accepts Python-native modules defining init_page(page) or default(page).

• browser_annotate: Intentionally omitted (upstream relies on a Node.js dashboard daemon).

• browser_pdf_save: PDF generation is supported when running Headless Chromium engines (--browser chromium --headless).

🧪 Testing & Conformance

Run local test and quality gates:

# Lint checks
uv run ruff check .

# Type checking (strict mypy across all source and test files)
uv run mypy src tests

# Unit and integration test suite
uv run pytest

Run upstream TypeScript Playwright MCP conformance suite:

cd tests/conformance/upstream
npm ci
npx playwright test --workers=10

📄 License

Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE for details.