Periscope MCP
An MCP server that gives AI agents 74 Playwright tools to QA, test, and analyze web apps - static sites, SPAs, and apps behind a login - returning hard verdicts, not screenshots to squint at.
People who work with accessibility, browser automation and headless chrome and want it reachable from Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in Python.
VERIFIED ACTIVE
LAST COMMIT 2026-07-18 · ★ 10 · #247 OF 255 MAINTAINED BROWSER AUTOMATION · VERIFIED 2026-09-18
AGPL-3.0 · Python servers · how we verify → /methodology
01 · Evidence
Security posture
What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.
license AGPL-3.0 - declared in the repository
registry namespace io.github.segentic-lab is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner
02 · What Periscope MCP can do
Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.
Latest releases
v0.10.4 · 2026-07-07
Sharpens the two web tools where Periscope has a structural edge - a real browser and an authenticated crawler. · web_fetch - readable Markdown + real teeth · Readable Markdown by default via trafilatura: structure…
v0.10.3 · 2026-07-07
Two dogfooding reports from auditing real Astro sites - both fixed. · Fixed · - Non-deterministic crawl order made re-tests incomparable · With max_pages smaller than the site, consecutive test_project runs picked a…
v0.10.2 · 2026-07-06
Cross-server lesson from the glovebox-mcp sibling - its observe/settle_ms pattern is "cleaner than periscope's separate screenshot-after." Issue #21. · Added · observe param on the action tools - click_element…
03 · Who maintains Periscope MCP
periscope-mcp is maintained by segentic-lab. We track 4 MCP servers from segentic-lab - 3 actively maintained, 25 combined GitHub stars, oldest repo from Jul 2026. Full record: all servers from segentic-lab.
04 · Facts
- repository
- github.com/segentic-lab/periscope-mcp
- category
- browser automation - ranked #247 of 255 actively-maintained browser automation servers as of 2026-09-18.
- release cadence
- 10+ releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-07-07)
- registry
- io.github.segentic-lab/periscope-mcp (active, first published 2026-07-03 · 12 versions)
05 · Periscope MCP FAQ
What is Periscope MCP?
An MCP server that gives AI agents 74 Playwright tools to QA, test, and analyze web apps - static sites, SPAs, and apps behind a login - returning hard verdicts, not screenshots to squint at.
Is Periscope MCP still maintained?
Yes - as of 2026-09-18, its last commit was 2026-07-18 and it shipped 10+ releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.
06 · Alternatives to Periscope MCP
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