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by gregpr07 484 days ago
hmm, I though about this a lot. But tbh I think MCP is sort of a gimmick... probably the better way is for agents just to understand the http apis directly. Maybe I'm wrong, very happy to be convinced differently. Do you think MCP server for the cloud version would be useful?
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ec109685 484 days ago
MCP seems nicer than requiring LLM hosts execute arbitrary curl calls to endpoints since it packages a tool into a dedicated plugin that users can opt into.
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ec109685 484 days ago
E.g. this puppeteer MCP: https://x.com/windsurf_ai/status/1894553166609617032
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nostrebored 484 days ago
strong agree with this -- I don't understand outside of integration with Claude Desktop why to use MCP rather than a dedicated API endpoint.
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fallinditch 484 days ago
I believe MCP helps here because it standardizes integrations, enhances user control via opt-in plugins, and improves security by avoiding direct endpoint calls.

@gregpr07 wouldn't adoption of MCP open up Browser-use to more use cases?

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gregpr07 484 days ago
It probably would yeah. I was very against it but this HN post sorta points me to “people want mcp”
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anonzzzies 484 days ago
Hmm, I don't mean this negatively, but MCP is mentioned only in this thread and 2 comments up you say 'I thought about this a lot' and now you are convinced based on 2 people saying they would like it? Isn't standardising something people want always? And MCP seems to have easily won that 'battle' user wise -> what have you been thinking about exactly?
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gregpr07 484 days ago
What’s your take - how can we expose Browser Use to as many use cases as possible? Is there easier way than openapi config?
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elyase 484 days ago
I want to use browser-use in Cursor but I am using another option because it doesn't support MCP integration which is the common language they support for external tools
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nsonha 483 days ago
as building blocks we of course prefer APIs. However, interfacing directly with the browser (or desktop) can enable end users to do way more things without having integration built by devs, in theory at least. In reality, LLM may not have reached that point yet and there are security concerns.
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